PRESS RELEASE â Digicel, in keeping with its mandate of employee development and growth today announced the promotion of Holly Hughes-McNamara to Regional CEO for St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada, and Siobhan James-Alexander to the position of Digicel St. Lucia Country Manager.
noun. Bread is a source of carbohydrates. Bread is a source of carbohydrates. The definition of a carbohydrate is an organic compound that occurs in living tissues or food and that can be broken down into energy by people or animals.arbohydrate. noun. Any of a group of organic compounds that includes sugars, starches, celluloses, and gums and serves as a major energy source in the diet of animals. These compounds are produced by photosynthetic plants and contain only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, usually in the ratio 1:2:1.
A carbohydrate is an organic compound with the general formula Cm(H2O)n, that is, consisting only of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, the last two in the 2:1 atom ratio. Carbohydrates can be viewed as hydrates of carbon, hence their name.   The term is most common in biochemistry, where it is a synonym of saccharide.or example, blood sugar is the monosaccharide glucose, table sugar is the disaccharide sucrose, and milk sugar is the disaccharide lactose (see illustration).   Carbohydrates perform numerous roles in living things.