Royal Caribbean’s Misplaced Priorities: Fast Internet, Virtual Balconies But No Automatic Man-Overboard Systems
By Jim Walker From Jim Walker’s Cruise Law News Today (10) I read an article by a popular cruise blogger that Royal Caribbean was on track to deliver a fast land-based internet experience to its guests. The article went on…
Economic crisis and the Caribbean: The challenges facing Barbados
By Hilbourne Watson From Stabroek News Hilbourne A. Watson is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Barbados is yet another casualty of the economic crisis facing the Caribbean, with the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) government euphemistically…
Haiti to register Haitian migrants abroad
By Trenton Daniel From Boston.com PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti is launching a program to register its migrants who live without documentation abroad, including in the Dominican Republic, where thousands of people of Haitian origin are in danger of being…
Caribbean tourism sees modest visitor gains in 2013
By Gay Nagle Myers From Travel Weekly The number of Caribbean visitors increased 1.8% in 2013, a growth rate that lagged well behind most other world regions. In comparison, 2013 tourist arrivals grew 3.6% in all of the Americas, 5.4%…
PPS in the Caribbean hold key to success
From The Barbados Advocate “Worthwhile approach” It was noted quite recently that Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Caribbean hold the key to the success of infrastructural development in the Bank’s Borrowing Member Countries. There is a recognition that infrastructure development…
LIAT airline leadership asleep at the wheel again
By Robert Maclellan From TN Global Travel Industry News In the first month of 2014 Caribbean regional media reported that LIAT has had to choose between paying employee salaries and paying aircraft lease charges in order to maintain flight operations….
Plot to replace trustees [of Caribbean Justice Trust Fund]
From Trinidad Express A power struggle is brewing among members of the board of trustees of the Caribbean Court of Justice Trust Fund (CCJTF) in the wake of Chief Justice Ivor Archie being defeated for the post of vice chairman….
Ex-Caribbean Sea Works director: My hands are clean
By Radhica Sookraj From Guardian Media Former director of Caribbean Sea Works Ltd Krishnamurti Mahabir says he is not afraid to face the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) because he had no involvement in the $644 million cargo of cocaine…
Thousands of new hotel rooms planned for Mexico and Caribbean this year
By Lisa Schwarz From St Cloud Times With a winter like we’re having, visions of white-sand beaches giving way to gently lapping turquoise waters are like money in the bank. And the Caribbean tourism industry is banking on it. By…
Richard Branson pledges to turn Caribbean green
From European News The palm trees and billiard table have been shipped in, work on the infinity pool overlooking the coral reef is progressing and the tennis courts are celebrity-ready. But few of the super-luxury buildings rising on Moskito island’s…
