PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The 11th edition of the Caribbean Festival of Art (CARIFESTA XI) opens in Suriname on Friday with the host country promising that the region’s premier arts and cultural festival will turn the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country into a gigantic stage of entertainment. But for Orlando Olmberg, the supplier of solar equipment, Guguplex, he is using the occasion to set up an educational “Green village”, the size of a football field to showcase the possibilities of solar for providing rural communities with much needed energy for electricty. He says CARIFESTA XI offers a prime opportunity to market sustainability to the region.
