Archive for February, 2009
LIME spreads love with its “Frisky February” Promotion..
LIME, the Caribbean’s only full service telecommunications company, is “showing some love” to its customers across the region this Valentine’s season with its “Frisky February” Promotion. The company today unveiled a host of enticing offers including free talk time for prepaid mobile customers, discounts on BlackBerry service and a [...]
Google Execs May Get Jail Time in Italy for Video
Beginning today, Google executives are on trial for defamation and privacy violation pertaining to a video posted to the Italian Google Video site, according to the New York Times. At issue is a cellphone video of a Down Syndrome boy being teased by four boys from Turin. Italian officials say the video should never have been posted online. Of [...]
Procter returns to Barbados with the same car!
European entry list rises steadily Britain's Kevin Procter, the latest European front-runner to confirm his entry for Sol Rally Barbados 2009, will break with tradition this year: for the first time since his debut in the island in 2003, he will tackle the Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) blue riband event in a car he has rallied there [...]
Search Engine Optimization and the Three-way Benefit
It can be easy for business owners to look at SEO as an attractive means of improving their position with search engines. This can be a great long-term strategy that really works well for online business, but the benefits don't stop there. Your diligence in SEO also benefits the search engines. That's right. The search engines place a lot of [...]
ST. LUCIA SEES 6% DROP IN VISITOR ARRIVALS IN DECEMBER.
Preliminary figures released by the St Lucia Tourist Board show that the number of tourist stopover arrivals, that is persons staying 24 hours or more, fell 5.8% in December 2008, to 26,173 visitors, compared with 27,798 visitors who arrived in December 2007. The number of cruise visitors increased however, by 18%, compared with December 2007. [...]
Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival Nets 1 Billion..
Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival is estimated to have stimulated economic activity within the tourism capital to the tune of J$1 billion (US $10.2 million) over the last three days, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett announced. The Sunday Gleaner reported that the figure was in line with the estimate made last year by the stakeholders in the [...]
