Regional metrologists (measurement experts), as well as their international counterparts, are today celebrating World Metrology Day (May 20th) by recognising the increasing importance their work will have to play in the current climate and the future economic recovery.
Charging Ahead: Weights and Measures Week 2020 Happy Weights and Measures Week 2020! Weights and Measures Week is celebrated every year from March 1-7 to commemorate President John Adams signing the first U.S. weights and measures legislation into law on March 2, 1799. It is estimated that sales of products or services involving “weights and …
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 …
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 …
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. …
