[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] URCA Donates to the Salvation Army[/caption] URCA ended 2013 with corporate giving. Including gifts to schools in the local community where URCA’s office is located: Doris Johnson Senior High School received 8 computer systems. The School’s IT teacher recently introduced Computer Aided Draft and Design (CADD) to the computing curriculum. Uriah McPhee Primary School received 2 computer systems for use in the School’s library. URCA’s gift also included 1-year subscription and licenses to online educational programmes including Brain Pop, Brain Pop Jr, Brain Pop Espanol and Reading A – Z. URCA also donated to the Children’s…
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) will hold its annual Oral Hearing on Monday May 27th at 6:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Harry C. Moore Library, The College of The Bahamas. At this hearing, the Board will present URCA’s 2012 Annual Report and its plan of projects and activities for 2013. Persons wishing to obtain copies of these documents prior to this meeting may access a copy via the following link on the URCA website, https://urcabahamas.bs/news.php?cmd=view&id=209&pre=y. This will be the fourth such hearing, since URCA’s 2009 establishment. The URCA Act, 41(7) requires that, URCA provide such a…
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200"] URCA CEO, Hon Khaalis Rolle, OOCUR Chairman[/caption] The tenth annual conference of the Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OOCUR) was hosted in The Bahamas by the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA). Held last week over the three-day November 7th – 9th period, the conference attracted 73 participants from countries throughout the Caribbean, as well as the United States, the United Kingdom, Ghana and Nigeria. The theme for the tenth conference was “Utility Regulation in the Caribbean: A case for Harmonisation of Approaches to Regulation”. Conference papers covered a range of subject areas related to the…
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority’s (URCA) will host the Tenth Annual Conference of the Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OOCUR), from Wednesday November 7th to Friday November 9th at the Grand Lucayan Resort in Freeport, Grand Bahama. Under the theme Utility Regulation in the Caribbean: A Case of the Harmonization of Approaches to Regulation, the conference will be opened by the Hon. Khaalis Rolle, Minster of State for Investments. This occasion is a particularly special one for OOCUR, which in July of this year, marked its tenth anniversary. The regional non-profit organisation was established on July 26th in 2002,…
