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United Kingdom Travel Writers visit Grenada |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
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St. George’s: The Grenada Board of Tourism has organized to ensure that very soon persons who read the UK’S Travel Channel www.travelchannel.co.uk will have access to a 1,500 word feature on Grenada. This will be possible due to the July 1, 2009 arrival from the UK of Mrs. Petra Shepherd who will spend a week in Grenada enjoying a vacation prize that she won at the Guild of British Travel Writers dinner in November last year. What has been dubbed as ‘a working holiday’ will result in a feature article containing the logos of the Grenada Board of Tourism, Mount Cinnamon Hotel, and Monarch Airlines, as well as links to the individual websites. |
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Funding Will Help Restore Threatened Coral Reefs |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
Economic Stimulus Funding Will Help Restore Threatened Coral Reefs in Florida and U.S. Virgin Islands
Stimulus funds will create 57 jobs and expand efforts to restore threatened coral reefs at an “unprecedented” scale.
SUGARLOAF KEY, Florida — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today that The Nature Conservancy and its partners’ staghorn and elkhorn coral recovery project will receive support from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which will fund all or part of 57 positions needed to develop large-scale, in-water coral nurseries and restore reefs along Florida’s southern coast and the U.S. Virgin Islands. |
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Grenada's Ian Adams wins accounting awards |
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
 Ian Adams (right) of St. George’s, Grenada, has been named an Accounting Department Outstanding Accounting Graduate at East Central University in Ada, Okla. He also received the Dr. Barbara McKinzie CPA Endowment Scholarship to begin work on a master of science in accounting degree at ECU. He is shown with Dr. Micheal Thompson, dean of ECU’s School of Business, at the Business Awards Banquet. In addition, Adams, a center on ECU’s basketball team, was named to the Lone Star Conference All-Academic Basketball Team for three straight years. He holds the school record for blocked shots in a game with 10, against Texas A&M-International in 2005-06. That same season, he was also voted LSC North Division Freshman of the Year as he came within two blocks of tying a school record for a season. He is the son of Irma and Eric Adams. |
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PUERTO RICO & DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WIN INAUGURAL YUCATAN HOLIDAYS ACADEMIC TOURISM SCHOLARSHIPS |
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (June 26, 2009) - Jeremy Sanchez and Viladys Rivera were recently selected from over 90 regional applicants to receive the annual Yucatan Holidays Academic Responsible Tourism scholarship awards administered through the CHTA Education Foundation.
Erika Garcia, CEO Yucatan Holidays expressed delight at this honor for Puerto Rico "it is Yucatan Holidays deep belief that we must impact and develop the Spanish Caribbean tourism product by giving funds to allow professional study & growth within the tourism & hospitality sector. Our academic scholarships target young Hispanic students who desire to change the way their islands do business and embrace the global changing mood that places sustainability and responsible tourism as the drivers. We are firm believers that this works for all!" |
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Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Peter David says Grenada is optimistic about plans by Trinidad and Tobago for the setting up of an Aircraft Maintenance Facility in Grenada. Plans to that effect have been announced by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Patrick Manning.
