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Dennis Jones is a Jamaican-born international economist, who has lived most of the time in the UK and USA, and latterly in Guinea, west Africa. He moved back to the Caribbean in 2007. This blog contains his observations on life on this small eastern Caribbean island, as well as views on life and issues on a broader landscape, especially the Caribbean and Africa.

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Monday, September 03, 2007

Fire at McBride Caribbean


A major chemical fire started early this morning at the McBride Caribbean factory in Lowlands, Christ Church. As background, McBride's is the Caribbean's largest manufacturer of aerosol products and is part of the Goddard Enterprise Limited (see picture of fire, courtesy of The Nation, with inset picture of Martin Pritchard, Managing Director of Goddard Enterprises Ltd). Early news reports indicated that the fire was being bought under control, but that residents in a 3 mile radius had been asked to evacuate. A respiratory alert has been issued in this area advising persons to be on guard against any skin or respiratory ailments. Rather than repeat what others are reporting about the chemical fire, I will point to some good initial coverage on Bajan Reporter (see link), Barbados Underground, and Caribbean Broadcasting Company (see link).

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