Association of Caribbean States partners with Regional Agencies to host Caribbean Aviation Day 2014
From Guyana Aviation The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) announced on Wednesday, its collaboration with Regional Agencies, the Airports Council International (ACI), Latin America and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA), Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), and the International Air Transport Association…
Caribbean cruise horror stories at US Senate hearing
From Caribbean360 WASHINGTON, United States, Friday August 1, 2014 – There could have been few places where the old adage “worse things happen at sea” seemed more appropriate than a recent US Senate Commerce Committee hearing in which members were…
Cruise ship passengers return to Cayman/Cayman’s Julian Jervis continues to turn heads at Commonwealth Games
Cruise ship passengers return to Cayman The latest (June) figures from the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism show a massive near 42% jump in tourist arrivals from Cruise ships in Cayman over the 2013 June figures with over 86,500 turning…
Digital detox getaways In Florida and the Caribbean
By Georgina Cruz, Special Correspondent From Orlando Sentinel For a while, hotels and resorts touted such perks as iPod docks, free Wi-Fi, and even use of free iPads. But some guests, weary of hours sitting in front of a computer/cell…
New era of regional cooperation born: Birth of the Association of Caribbean States
From eTN Global Travel Industry News At the end of the 1980s, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government felt a growing exigency to forge closer relations with their neighbors in the Caribbean Basin. This desire to widen the integration…
“Worth going to The Cayman Islands just for THIS Ritz-Carlton experience alone.”
5 of 5 stars review on Trip Advisor I don’t know where to begin. But here goes: We have stayed at numerous Marriott / Ritz-Carlton properties over the past several years. This property by far blows them all away. Period….
Sandals to give Barbados foreign exchange boost with US$53m hotel purchase
From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Sunday July 27, 2014, CMC – Jamaican hotelier, Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart’s, Sandals Group will within a few days purchase a Barbados flagship tourism property, Almond Beach Village, for US$53 million. Reporting on the matter, the Sunday…
Birmingham drug mule saved by cabin crew after cocaine pellet bursts in stomach
By Mike Lockley From Birmingham Mail Colmin Smith, 48, had swallowed 61 pellets before Virgin plane was forced to make emergency landing in Bermuda A Birmingham drugs mule carrying half a pound of cocaine in his stomach almost died when…
Thailand airport scam
From Clean Internet Charity This is a confidence trick where one is falsely accused of shoplifting, and then held by police or those claiming to be authorities until they pay a large ‘bail’ for the alleged theft. At times those…
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Mini-pirates scour the Caribbean with stops for ice cream and Legos
By Sailing Dad From Sailing With Kids Why do a rally and why the Caribbean 1500? I was recently asked this by the website All At Sea Southeast magazine (www.allatsea.net). Here is what I came up with! 1. How did…
