All the world’s an island: Correspondent Carol-Ann covers the Globe with only a back pack
By Carol-Ann Rudy Alone. At my age (nope, not tellin’)! Okay, I actually covered about 7 percent of the globe, plus the 16,000 mile round-trip flight across the Atlantic. I traveled mostly by train on my Eurail Global Pass through…
Growth company targets Caribbean restaurants and rum markets
WHITEFISH, MT / August 7, 2014 / Blue Water Global Group, Inc. (OTCQB: BLUU) has put together a unique business model with multiple components that strategically support each other, laying the groundwork for reliable growth and revenue generation. Featuring the…
The restaurant industry still hasn’t recovered from the recession
By Hayley Peterson From Business Insider U.S. restaurant traffic has failed to recover from the slowdown of the recession. Consumers made 61 billion visits to restaurants in the year ending May 2014, which is roughly 2 billion fewer visits than…
Company to refund consumers $3.5M because Cactus Juice isn’t “inflammation relief without a prescription”
By Ashlee Kieler From Consumerist The marketers of Nopalea have agreed to refund customers $3.5 million after the FTC found the company’s advertisements to be deceptive. Advertisements featuring carefree, beautiful smiling people sipping on juice might not be enough to…
Ask a Cicerone: How to get the most out of a beer festival
By Maggie Hoffman From Serious Eats Outdoor beer festivals make summer better, and not just because they offer an opportunity to drink outside. At a beer fest you get the chance to taste rare, less-available beers, meet your beer heroes,…
31 days under water aquanaut resurfaces/Technology changes water
Aquanaut Fabien Cousteau surfaces after spending 31 days underwater By Katie Nelson From Mashable Thirty-one days after his initial descent and 50 years after his famed grandfather’s original deep-sea mission, Fabien Cousteau is back on dry land. The 46-year-old ocean…
Medical marijuana/Big soda attack fails
CARICOM leaders to establish commission to review marijuana decriminalisation By Peter Richards From Caribbean360 ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Thursday July 3, 2014, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have agreed to the establishment of a Commission to further the debate on…
Nick Pringle | Pitch perfect
By Sumana Mukherjee From Live Mint From the cricket field to the sales spiel, the commercial director of Accolade Wines—in India as Hardys—has it all extra-covered. Pringle’s workday starts with Australia and travels westwards with the sun, ending with the…
Barbados minister says CARICOM lacks solidarity in Caribbean rum fight with US
From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday July 1, 2014, CMC – Trade, Industry and Commerce Minister, Donville Inniss, has compared the current trade issue with the United States over rum to the banana struggle of the 90s, and criticised regional leaders…
Coffee is about to get more expensive everywhere
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, The Wire From Business Insider Months after we all started fretting over the prospect of a global coffee shortage, it seems we might actually start to feel the caffeine-related effects of Brazil’s massive drought and Central America’s…