A team of officials from the Cuban Media and International Relations Department, including Cuban Ambassador Dr. Fajado Marcellino, met with Minister of Information Dr. Edmond Mansoor recently to explore other areas of cooperation between Antigua & Barbuda and Cuba.

To the migration of Caymans and Jamaicans to Cuba was dedicated in its premiere, the event Confluencias caribeñas (Caribbean Convergences), organized by the Centro de Estudios del Caribe (Centre of Caribbean Studies) de la Casa de las Américas

The Spanish consortium RIU Hotels is expected to close this year's operations with 30 tourist establishments in the Caribbean, totaling 14,000 rooms in the region.

After a benign stem was found in Colombia, the Venezuelan government took strict measures to prevent a bird flu outbreak, considering that many Asian and European countries have been affected by the disease.

Carnivals are not only a big cultural attraction, but events that can help alleviate poverty, Lelei Lelaulu, president of Counterpart International told reporters on the eve of the second summit of the World Tourism Forum for Peace and Sustainable Development hosted by Brazil.

The impact of technology on tourism business will be the general focus of a crucial Master Class at the forthcoming 28th Annual Caribbean Tourism Conference (CTC-28), scheduled for St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, October 21-28.

Argentine exports of goods will rise to a new nother record in 2005, according to Ecolatina Consultancy in Buenos Aires which forecasted it will amount to more than 39, 000 million dollars.

Bermuda awoke Thursday to rain and 60 mph winds as Tropical Storm Harvey brushed the island in its east-northeasterly path.

Mexico and Venezuela announced for August 3 the annual renewal of the San Jose Agreement signed in 1980 for the daily supply of 160,000 barrels of oil and derivatives under favorable terms to Caribbean and Central American countries.

Rahul Dravid hit a second successive half-century to shape India's comfortable six-wicket victory over a depleted West Indies in a triangular one-day series match here on Sunday.

Robert Symons, the renowned Steel Pan musician from Bermuda recently released his third volume of Tropicana Steel Pan interpretations.

United Airlines has announced three additional weekly flights from its hubs at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and Washington Dulles International (IAD), to Cyril E. King airport (STT) in St. Thomas, beginning Saturday, December 17, 2005.

The Ecuadorian minister of Energy and Mines; Ivan Rodriguez, informed that Venezuela, Canada and China are interested on financing the construction of a refinery in this Andean country.

On a strict legal interpretation, it could be argued that the marriage laws in St Lucia permit same-sex marriages, says Allen Chastanent, Vice President of the St Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association (SLHTA).

Venezuela has received convincing support for the setting up of a Caribbean oil industry project called Petrocaribe.

Presidents Vicente Fox (Mexico) and Martin Torrijos (Panama), along with the secretary general of the Association of Caribbean States, Rubén Silié, opened the 4th ACS Summit with optimistic speeches.

The Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe expects the casino at the Four Seasons Emerald Bay Resort in Exuma to significantly impact the island and the southern Bahamas.

Paraguay and Bolivia will seek energy integration through the possible construction of a gas pipeline that will initially cover both countries, local media highlighted Thursday.

Costa Rica and Argentina Chamber of Commerce representatives signed agreements of cooperation and economic interaction to strengthen commercial links between both countries, stated an official source Thursday.

With 86 percent of its gross domestic product from tourism, the tourism minister of Antigua said the country is the most tourism-dependent nation in the world.

The number of United States travelers to Cuba has dropped drastically over the past year reported Monday the Miami press.

This will be the season to escape for the holidays to the warm waters of the Caribbean aboard a Windstar Cruises luxury motor sailing yacht, the 308-passenger Wind Surf and 148-passenger Wind Spirit, exploring uncommon ports of call on a 10- to 11-day cruise.

The Majorca-based Piñeiro Group is planning to build three new hotels in Jamaica on a 247-acre vacant lot north of the city of Runaway Bay.

The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) and the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) have signed an agreement to co-produce an annual Caribbean Hotel Sales and Marketing Strategy Conference.

Every Caribbean national, including our leaders, must see tourism as a top priority because it its importance to the countries´ economies, the region´s top tourism public servant has said.

At the latest edition of the Caribbean Hotel Industry Conference (CHIC 2005) held in June in Miami, Caribbean News Digital talked extensively with this Sol Meliá senior exec about the hotel chain´s plans in the region and the road ahead for the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA).

A yacht charter company headquartered in the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and the Grenadines, jumped on the bandwagon to offer refunds on new passports for U.S. citizens bound for a sailing vacation in the Caribbean next year.

Almost unexplored potentialities and a variety of a great cooperation but scarcely used, recall today validity of the Association of Caribbean States for its Fourth Summit to be held in this capital next week.

Experts and officials belonging to the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) will meet on July 26 in this capital to establish the agenda of the 4th Summit of Heads of States and Government to be held on July 29.

No words are good enough to describe the atmosphere last Monday morning when the first commercial aircraft to fly into Montserrat touched down around 7.30pm.