When Ferdinand Hinds isn’t in Barbados, New York or Antigua, he is in San Rafael, a community 30 miles outside of San Francisco in California.

That’s where the former student of the Coleridge & Parry School and the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic develops high-tech systems and runs his business, i2D Inc., a small information management enterprise that works with institutions, private firms and governments in and out of the United States and the Caribbean to develop and manage sophisticated computer applications that meet their communications needs.

A 22-member contingent of Barbadian manufacturing and services companies and business support organisations will be heading into the French territories to participate in a trade mission scheduled for November 17-24, 2010.

“Boosts performance, storage, reporting, control and customization” 

abusTechnology inc., February 23, 2009 announced the release of abusSTAR v2.0, a major upgrade, doubling the system performance, providing schools with significantly expanded data collection for reporting, control options for customization and updates to the industry-standard Web enabled data management tools.This release also expands the option for continuous assessment of student academic and non-academic activities across multiple school years by each term, and provides for timely feedback to parents on student performance.