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…
Cayman Islands Weststar TV sold to Logic (WestTel/KeyTech)
By Raymond Hainey From The Royal Gazette KeyTech buys Cayman TV firm Telecoms firm KeyTech has bought a TV firm in Cayman — and sold off BTC for $30 million. KeyTech’s subsidiary WestTel Ltd (Logic Cayman) has bought up British…
Burglar arrested – Charged
From RCIPS Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:58 AM Further to the below release of yesterday, the male has been charged with burglary and is due in Court today. From RCIPS Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:11 PM At around midnight last…
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Grand Cayman utility company to replace DT GT lines – outages planned Sunday (7) PLEASE NOTE Caribbean Utility Company (CUC) Grand Cayman’s electrical power supplier have announced they will be replacing lines in downtown George Town this Sunday September 7th…
Whopping $700 media fee creates controversy
By Vinette K. Pryce From Caribbean Life After 46 years of coverage of the annual West Indian American Day Associations annual festivities in Brooklyn, in an un-precedented action, the organizers required media individuals to pay a whopping $700 in order…
