Bridgetown, Barbados — The CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) hosted a series of national stakeholder consultations to modernise Metrology Acts in the region. The online consultations were conducted in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), under the Caribbean Component of the African, Caribbean and...
TTBS Metrology Technicians Win Bureau’s World Metrology Day Competition
Metrology technicians at the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS) are pressing home the validity of the work that they do in a local competition to mark World Metrology Day 2023. The competition was intended to encourage such measurement specialists to write articles which contribute to their development and...
Meeting in the Middle on M4M Project
Meteorologists and Metrologists Collaboration Takes Root Regional meteorologists were able to take advantage of 10 weeks of training in Quality Management. It was accomplished thanks to a collaboration between the weather experts, and metrologists, the measurement experts. Concluded only a week ago, the series of 10 training sessions was part...
Laboratories Get In-Depth Quality Training
The competencies of lab technicians in Barbados, Dominica and St Kitts and Nevis were given a boost when a cadre of them undertook training in the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standard which delves into the specifics for laboratories. The training in the standard which examines the general requirements for the competence, impartiality...
Scientists Building a Safer Region with Reliable Measurement
Caribbean metrologists are recommitting themselves to seeing a safe CARICOM region, with the continued development of the measurement sciences, especially in light of recent challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic and the volcanic eruptions in St. Vincent. As the world celebrates World Metrology Day 2021 under the theme “Measurement for Health”,...