内容摘要：Dominica's geothermal plant will be just the second in the Caribbean. Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France, has had a 15-megawatt station in operation for three decades.

Dominica's geothermal plant will be just the second in the Caribbean. Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France, has had a 15-megawatt station in operation for three decades.

Now it provides power for around 15,000 people in the local area but the project hasn't been able to make ends meet because of slow take-up from the community.Allowing the bitcoiners to set up shop here has been transformational to the business.

"Every day we were wasting over half of the energy we could generate which also meant we're not earning from that to meet our operating expenses. We needed a major user of power in the area and that's where the game-changing partnership with Gridless came in," Daniel says.The bitcoin mine now accounts for around 30% of the plant's revenue allowing them to keep the prices down for the local town.Bitcoin and its economics are of course far from the minds of the people in Zengamina.

The town itself is a few miles from the plant and comprises not much more than a few dozen shed-like buildings peppering a cross roads.Only one shop has a fridge and a dozen kids crowd around a communal computer taking turns to choose a song to blare out, causing adults to wince as they go about their day.

Although the hydro-electric plant came online in 2007, it took a few more years to connect it to the local town, and then more time to connect individual homes and businesses.

So, some people like barber Damian are still enjoying the novelty of getting wired up only a year and a half ago.Lineker said he very much regretted the references, adding he would never knowingly share anything antisemitic and that he had

once he had learned about the symbolism of the image.The presenter's imminent departure

late on Sunday.Last week, BBC Director General Tim Davie said: "The BBC's reputation is held by everyone, and when someone makes a mistake, it costs us."