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A St Kitts Highway Gets a Solar Boost, With Help from Taiwan

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - October 2, 2012

Above: the new solar lights (Photo: Erasmus Williams)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Approximately 36 solar light poles have now been installed along the Kim Collins Highway in St Kitts.

The solar project is the result of financing from Taiwan, which has been working with the government on a series of green energy projects.

part of what Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas said was an ultimate goal of making the entire twin-island federation sustainably fueled.

“As St Kitts and Nevis continues the march to become one of the first entirely-green-energy countries, we will be able, in the process, to not only improve the quality of life for the people of St Kitts and Nevis, but we would be able to a large extent reduce the enormous expenditure that the government continues to expend on a regular basis for the electrification of various parts of the country,” Douglas said in a statement.

The highway is named after Kim Collins, a four-time Olympian for St Kitts and Nevis.

The solar lighting covers a stretch of highway between the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank eastward to the Sugar’s Complex.

Last year, Taiwan helped St Kitts install solar panels to help power government headquarters in Basseterre.

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