The Fat Duck, an English restaurant was crowned the best restaurant in the world by “Restaurant” magazine in London. What makes this intriguing is that The Fat Duck booted perennial favorite Thomas Keller and his restaurant French Laundry from the top spot. But Keller now has two restaurant in the top ten, French Laundry is in the third spot and his New York restaurant Per Se is seventh on the list.

The preference of Dominicans for traveling abroad has dwindled dramatically as a result of new taxed levied on plane tickets that have made flying a whole lot pricier, businessman Gustavo de Hostos was quoted as saying in local newspaper Hoy as he spoke on behalf on the Airlines Association.

The City Hall of Puerto Vallarta is cranking up a project to rescue the Mexican city´s historic center and paint a brighter picture of the Caribbean-bathed burg, Mayor Gustavo Gonzalez Villaseñor informed this week.

Little more than a week ago, Caribbean News Digital reopened its poll section to monitor the professional opinions of industry experts in the Caribbean region about the candidacy of Bahamian Tourism Director Vincent Vanderpool to become the next secretary-general of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO). This section was resumed after our newsletter posted an interview to Mr. Vanderpool and even though we´re planning to keep the subject on for a few more days with a new question, here are the first outcomes: In all, we´ve tabbed 762 votes broken down in the following way: 438 voters (57.5 percent) say Mr. Vanderpool is the best candidate, compared to only 4 voters that think otherwise. The remaining 320 respondents (42 percent) said they don´t know him.

An important result of the 4th Cuba-Antigua and Barbuda Joint Commission is the commencement of direct flights between the two countries to boost tourism destinations in the area. The accords were signed under the guidance and wisdom of President Fidel Castro, whose comprehensive vision has contributed to improve health services in Antigua and Barbuda, that country´s Prime Minister maintained.

Grenada´s Point Salines International Airport has included cigarette lighters on the list of prohibited items list upon entry to the airport´s secured areas as part of security measures to comply with U.S. new travel regulations. Airport officials said that the ban is a security measure intended to reduce security vulnerabilities and ensure the execution of this security requirement and not intended to offend smokers.