Sookoo steps down at RBC
From Trinidad Express Newspapers Banking group RBC yesterday announced that its chief executive, RBC Caribbean Banking, Suresh Sookoo is retiring, effective October 31. Sookoo, a career banker for more than 35 years, has led RBC’s Caribbean operations since 2008, when…
Cayman Islands Being Me! Group for girls
From Chatterbox Clinical Psychologist, Grace Ranke, will be running another 8 week ‘Being Me’ girls club starting in October for 9 – 12 year old girls who would like to find out more about smart ways to manage stress and…
Leading travel company to award five Caribbean cruises aboard Norwegian’s newest ship
Five Winners to be selected as part of Expedia CruiseShipCenters’ annual contest VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–There’s nothing more blissful than cruising to the warm sandy beaches of the Caribbean with your significant other, family member or best friend – especially…
Research and Markets: The Insurance Industry in the Cayman Islands, Key Trends and Opportunities to 2018
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/m33v6c/the_insurance) has announced the addition of the “The Insurance Industry in the Cayman Islands, Key Trends and Opportunities to 2018” report to their offering. “The Insurance Industry in the Cayman Islands, Key Trends and Opportunities to…
Important Tourism Satellite Account Workshop gets underway in Kingston
From eTN Clobal Travel News KINGSTON, Jamaica – A TSA workshop got underway today (September 3) at the Courtleigh Hotel, New Kingston, under the theme: “Establishing a Sustainable Synergy Between Technological Best Practices and Tourism Satellite Accounts.” It is being…
Celebrating Caribbean Women:“Children gravitate to me as a nurturer,” says Donna Hadaway Smith
By Nedburn Thaffe From mni alive “I started out wanting to be an air hostess. I wrote one of those essays at school in my primary five years, saying I would like to become an air hostess. My teacher looked…
Caribbean Volunteers At War – Review by Mark Barnes
From War History Online It was the Friday of another Longest Week and I was ploughing through the mud at the swampy finale to the War & Peace Show’s life at the Beltring Hop Farm when I saw a man…
As UK visitors return, is the Caribbean comeback finally on?
By Pippa Jacks From TTG Digital With British numbers up 6% and several islands feeling the most positive since the recession, the tide looks to be turning There were few regions in the world where the global economic crisis hampered…
CHICOS Program to include providing capital, all-inclusive resorts and sustainable hotels
Discussion panels and workshops at the Caribbean Hotel Investment Conference & Operations Summit (CHICOS) will focus on key subjects impacting the investment climate in the Caribbean including available capital, mixed-use development and other investment opportunities in the region. CHICOS is…
Tourist wins settlement after “nightmare” holiday in Dominican Republic
From Caribbean360 LONDON, England, Tuesday September 2, 2014 – In October 2009, a British tourist’s dream holiday in the Dominican Republic turned into a nightmare when he fell seriously ill just five days into a two-week stay at the four-star…
