“He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land.” It’s one of Dr. Martin Luther King’s most iconic speeches: “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” his address to striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn. on April 3, 1968. And it was born on the tiny island […]
Hollywood legend Robert De Niro made a big pitch for the Caribbean destination of Antigua and Barbuda this week at an investment conference in Dubai. De Niro, who is an investor along with Australian billionaire James Packer in the Paradise Found hotel project in Barbuda, has been serving as a special economic envoy for the twin-island nation […]
Tourism in Belize continues to boom, according to the destination’s latest arrival data. For the first nine months of 2016, Belize reported 293,622 stayover arrivals, a 16.4 percent increase over the same period in 2015 — making it one of the Caribbean’s fastest-growing tourism destinations. The country has seen 15 consecutive months of record-breaking overnight arrival […]
Southwest Airlines had another strong month in September, according to the carrier’s latest data report. Southwest flew 9.9 billion revenue passenger miles last month, up 7.9 percent from the 9.2 billion revenue passenger miles the company flew in September 2015. Available seat miles increased to 11.8 billion, a jump of 6 percent, while load factor […]
