01 August 2010
Opportunities for investment, trade and leisure were the focus of the Panama Road Show hosted by the Tourism Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago (TDC) on July 21 at the Marriott Panama. A trade show and networking reception for members of the business community, travel and tourism sectors, the Road Show included presentations on upcoming [...]
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01 August 2010
by Michelle Nichols A bumpy European economic recovery and battered currency have helped stall European tourism to North America especially the Caribbean and Mexico, though Canada is faring better, tourism experts say. The number of Europeans visiting the United States and Canada fell 10 percent last year, according to government data, as cash-strapped consumers opted [...]
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01 August 2010
Marriott International reported second quarter 2010 net income totaled $119 million, a 42 percent increase compared to second quarter 2009 adjusted net income. Diluted EPS totaled $0.31, a 35 percent increase from adjusted diluted EPS in the year-ago quarter. On April 22, 2010, the company forecasted second quarter diluted EPS of $0.25 to $0.29. Total [...]
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01 August 2010
Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. said it has successfully emerged from a Chapter 11 reorganization process. Upon emergence today, Trump Entertainment said it has significant new financial strength and resources, as well as a shared vision for stability and growth under a new ownership structure. Pursuant to the confirmed reorganization plan, $225 million of new equity [...]
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29 March 2010
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP) — Newly crowned world indoor 60m champion Veronica Campbell Brown is the latest marquee athlete reportedly hesitating over the Commonwealth Games in India in October. In a report carried in the Jamaica Observer on Friday, the sprinter’s agent Claude Bryan said she was leaning against competing, although the decision wasn’t final. “Well [...]
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28 March 2010
MIAMI, USA (AFP) — A son of reggae legend Bob Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, has written a new book claiming he was deprived of his father’s fortune for years unlike his half-brothers and half-sisters, sparking a row that could trigger legal action. Ky-Mani Marley’s “Dear Dad” hit booksellers’ stands February 6, when the late reggae icon [...]
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27 March 2010
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) — Cuba may open sugar production to foreign investors for the first time since the 1959 revolution as it seeks to reverse the once proud industry’s relentless decline, business sources said this week. Talks between investors and the government have come and gone with little result for years, but what is shaping [...]
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26 March 2010
JACMEL, Haiti (AFP) — Among the cracked colonial houses and shattered dreams that litter the beautiful Haitian beach resort and carnival city of Jacmel, a resilient people dare to hope as they rebuild for the future. Disaster struck just as Haiti, a popular jet-set destination in the 1960s and 1970s for rich Americans and Europeans, [...]
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01 February 2010
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