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MPE CARIBBEAN REPORT NEWSLETTER – June 16 2025
June 16, 2025 Aruba welcomes cruise tourism community The Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) officially opens its PAMAC Destination Summit today in Aruba. This high-level gathering brings together FCCA Platinum Members and cruise...

Promoting dialogue, enhancing mutual learning among civilisations to build a brighter future
Ambassador Wei HongtianOn June 7, 2024, the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly adopted a China-proposed resolution by consensus, declaring June 10 as the International Day for Dialogue among Civilisations. This year, the global community came...

Father’s Day Gift Guide 2025: The Best Ultra-High-Proof Whiskeys To Impress Dad
A glass of cognac and a few ears of barley on a dark wooden table. getty Sometimes you need a bottle that goes above and beyond, strong enough to withstand a splash of water or a big ice cube, and complex enough to keep surprising him every time...

How — and where — to travel this summer if you're on a tight budget
Breadcrumb Trail Links Travel Beautiful sunset over the Kelowna featuring Okanagan Lake. Getty Images Article content Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from...

Scientists say a record amount of seaweed hit the Caribbean and nearby areas in May
A record amount of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, and more is expected this month, according to a new report. The brown prickly algae is suffocating shorelines from Puerto Rico to Guyana and beyond, disrupting...

May 2025 was the planet’s second-warmest on record
May 2025 was Earth’s second-warmest May in analyses of global weather data going back to 1850, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported June 12. NASA and the European Copernicus Climate Change Service also rated May...

Talks underway with China on QEH expansion
200 The island’s main public health facility is poised for its most ambitious expansion in history, with Prime Minister Mia Mottley announcing plans to increase capacity at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) by 40 per cent, supported by a...

Regent Seven Seas Prestige ushers in a new world of “casual luxury” at up to $40,000 a night
Regent Seven Seas is building a new class of ship. Seven Seas Prestige will have an enormous master suite with an equally big price tag. But what has many talking is the fact that the “World’s Most Luxurious Fleet” has become, well, more relaxed....

USNS Comfort in Grenada Port with Continuing Promise 2025
The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is in Grenada, marking the Continuing Promise 16th mission to the region since 2007 and the eighth voyage on Comfort. The ship arrived on island on June 9, 2025 to provide a variety of medical...

William Kentridge Reflects on What It Means to Be a South African Artist
The artist William Kentridge, photographed at Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood on April 30, 2025. Daniel Terna “I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and...

Grenada Tourism Authority appoints Stacey Liburd as CEO
By TravelPress Staff June 12, 2025 The Grenada Tourism Authority has appointed Stacey A. Liburd as chief executive officer, effective June 15, 2025. With more than 15 years of experience in destination marketing, stakeholder engagement, and...

Australia's worst corporate crooks deserved utter contempt... now the HIH conmen are out of jail and living large on YOUR life savings - but there's one grim silver lining for their victims: SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BY CANDACE SUTTON
They are Australia's biggest conmen whose obscene greed and lavish spending left a trail of suffering and empty wallets when their fraud caused the country's biggest corporate collapse. The high-flying swindlers from insurance giant HIH drove...

USNS Comfort Grenada port visit
The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived in Grenada on 9 June 2025, to provide a variety of medical treatments to include dental, family medicine, internal medicine, optometry, nursing, pharmacy, biomedical repair, lab,...
Grenada Tourism Authority Names CEO Stacey A. Liburd
The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) has named Stacey A. Liburd, the former director of tourism at the Anguilla Tourist Board, as its new chief executive officer, effective June 15, 2025. “I am deeply honored to accept the role of chief executive...

Stacey Liburd appointed as new Chief Executive Officer of the Grenada Tourism Authority
Stacey A. Liburd appointed CEO of Grenada Tourism Authority, bringing 15+ years of experience in destination marketing, sustainable tourism, and regional leadership. ST. GEORGE, GRENADA – The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) announce the...

Grenada Tourism Authority Appoints New CEO
The Grenada Tourism Authority has announced the appointment of Stacey A. Liburd as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective June 15, 2025. Liburd brings more than 15 years of experience in destination marketing, stakeholder engagement, and...

Rep. Grace Meng of Queens, NY puts Indo-Caribbean American leader in Congressional Record
Ashook Ramsaran. PHOTO: @ashookramsaran On June 2, 2025, Congresswoman Grace Meng, D-NY, introduced a resolution for the Congressional Record, paying tribute to Caribbean-Indian community leader Ashook Ramsaran, a resident of her Sixth...

Saint Lucia Steps Up Efforts to Combat Sargassum as Seaweed Spreads
Saint Lucia is ramping up its response to the worsening sargassum crisis, with key discussions, foreign support and cleanup initiatives underway as the seaweed invades even previously unaffected coastlines. The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and...

American scientists are concerned about the record amount of seaweed in the Caribbean
19 Millions of tons of seaweed currently floating in the tropical Atlantic Ocean could soon make their way toward the United States, according to researchers following the phenomenon. A record amount of sargassum is currently impacting shores...

Stacey Liburd appointed as new CEO of the Grenada Tourism Authority
The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) has announced the appointment of Stacey Liburd as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective June 15, 2025. A respected tourism professional with more than 15 years of experience in destination marketing,...