Tag: Barbados

Pioneering Barbados water project kick starts

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Climate Fund and the Government of Barbados recently announced that a groundbreaking project that leverages an innovative financing model to scale up climate action and simultaneously avoid increasing the burden of public debt is all set to begin implementation. The pioneering project, with huge positive implications for climate resilience in the region, was today greenlighted for its first injection of GCF finance. The USD 110 million Barbados Climate Resilient South Coast Water Reclamation Project financed jointly by GCF (Green Climate Fund) and the IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) is…

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USPG announce £7M funding commitment to Codrington, Barbados

Stuart Mitchell

USPG (United Society Partners in the Gospel) recently announced at a press conference in Barbados that it will be seeking to address the wrongs of their past by committing to a long-term project, ‘Renewal & Reconciliation: The Codrington Reparations Project’ in partnership with Codrington Trust / Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI), in Barbados. The work will include four areas of work in collaboration with the descendants of the enslaved; community development and engagement; historical research & education; burial places & memorialisation, and family research. USPG has…

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