Hinds was awarded the British Government's Chevening Scholarship in 1984 where he gained a Master of Science in Alternative Energy from the University of Reading.
[2] He then returned to Barbados and began working on Organization of American States (OAS), and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) projects in the area of Bio-gas Digesters and Wind Energy.
Hinds then joined the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, as project manager of the Solar Programme in 1996.
[citation needed] This benefit was then exported to Belize, where Hinds trained 27 persons in that country, and 20 staff of the Anguilla electric utility.
He conceptualized and designed multimillion-dollar regional renewable energy projects, which attracted support from over 13 Caribbean countries and the Global Environmental Facility.