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“The Members of CARIMET: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago” Some islands are missing from this membership. As far as I can tell the islands that make up the British West Indies are not represented nor are some other islands (which are probably metric anyway due to their history such as belonging to a French Dept e.g. St Barts). The last time I was in Grand Cayman (about 3yrs ago) I didn’t see much metric unfortunately.
Regards Baron carter
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Here is the response I got about what's happening in the Carribean when it comes to metrication.
The good news is that no member state is standing pat with Imperial-only usage. Next I'll see what I can find out about how far along different member states are and which ones are following the Australian model for conversion and which ones are creating a UK-like muddle (none, I hope!)
Ezra Dear Mr
Steinberg, In repsonse
to your query, all Member States of the CARICOM Regional Organisation for
Standards and Quality are at some stage in the processo o conversion to metric
usage. However, the stage of this conversion varies widely amongst Member
Staes. Please see the CROSQ website at www.crosq.org
where you can find the contact points for each of the Standard Bureaux, if you
require more detailed information on the issue of metrication in each of the
Member States. Roger Hinds,
Technical Officer CROSQ (CARICOM
Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality) "The
Heritage", Tel: (246)
429-5925 / (246) 437-8146 Fax: (246)
437-4569 Email: |
