NASSAU, Bahamas — The Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality (BBSQ) is now fully World Trade Organization (WTO) compliant and has just completed its first three-year strategic plan, ending with an 80 percent achievement rate with all targeted input indicators, BBSQ Director Dr. Renee Ferguson-Bufford revealed yesterday, the Nassau Guardian reported January 22.
Ferguson-Bufford explained that the BBSQ has now embarked on its legal metrology program, which has allowed it to begin to earn money by providing legal metrology services to the private sector.
She said BBSQ has done mass metrology calibrations, including temperature metrology calibrations, and has on order a new 40-foot laboratory container.
“We have done tremendously well given that we are in our most embryonic phase of development, as the very last member state of CARICOM to be coming out of the gate,” said Ferguson-Bufford.
According to her, four BBSQ staff members will be training in St. Lucia this year with the British Standards Institution.
BBSQ is expected to have its requisite legislation updated this year, Ferguson-Bufford said, adding that she hopes to have it tabled in Parliament soon. The updates will ensure WTO compliance and technical barriers to trade, both a necessary part of this country’s accession to WTO. https://thenassauguardian.com/2019/01/22/bahamas-bureau-of-standards-and-quality-now-fully-wto-compliant/
