Through Feb. 24, PAL Airlines will be operating the Santiago de Chile-Varadero route with a couple of weekly flights. This airlift meets the increasing demand of Chilean visitors coming to Cuba’s top sun-and-beach travel destination during the high-peak season.

College of Charleston graduate Nora Luce will help the Caribbean Media Exchange gather movers and shakers from the region's most important industry, tourism. The 22 year-old Luce knows CMEx well after receiving a fellowship in 2011 to attend CMEx's 20th conference in the United States Virgin Islands where media, government, non-profit and private sector participants explored the theme "Communicating for Clarity and Prosperity".

St. Kitts and Nevis saw an increase in yacht and private jet arrivals in response to a proactive campaign on the part of the government to boost infrastructure and lure luxury travelers. High-end visitors are taking advantage of the expanded facilities for private/corporate jets and scheduled airlines as well as facilities at Port Zante Marina.

CanJet Airlines needs a lesson in public relations after leaving an Australian family of five in the lurch. The Halifax-based charter company ruined their Christmas holiday and then did not get back to them for four weeks.

An Essex businessman has been shot dead on holiday in Honduras after two people tried to steal his camera. Omer Kaya, 33, of Leigh-on-Sea, died after he was shot in the neck on Tuesday morning in San Pedro Sula, the Central American country's second city.