The Caricom Secretariat set up a Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme at its Georgetown, Guyana, headquarters in 2004. However, take-up of the various initiatives involved was fitful, Jamaica being the notable exception. The country's state agency, the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), established its own Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy in 2006, with a mandate to 'regularly implement new ideas and methods on renewable energy'. It is little wonder then that of all the 15 Caricom countries, which include the three mainland states of Guyana, Suriname (Latin America) and Belize (Central America), as well as Haiti, Jamaica has been the most ardent embracer of renewable energy.
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