For the past 18 months an international team of experts has been beavering away, in an overcrowded room somewhere in the St Lucia Bureau of Standards – with the goal of adding some 500 new international Standards to the country’s existing portfolio of 200 Standards. Why? Why indeed! Is this exercise going to make our […]
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How, and why, did the whole field of Standards come into existence? First, standards are nothing new. When the Egyptians built the Pyramids, they used a standard to define length. After all, there’s no point in hewing a massive block of stone from a quarry, transporting it hundreds of kilometres down the Nile and hauling
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Science was always in her DNA. From the tender age of 5, she was mixing powder and water, flour, cream, soap. Whatever compounds she could find, she would mix. It was no surprise that she chose Biology, Physics and Chemistry at secondary school. Laura graduated from St. Joseph’s Convent in 2002 with 8 CXC O’levels.
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