When Delta Air Lines Inc. upped its weekly nonstop flight to Grand Bahama Island to daily service last fall, tourism officials didn’t see the move simply as a seasonal increase in frequencies. While it […]
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Posted inCulture, Haiti
Haitian-American Reconnects With Her Roots Through Soccer
Though she has still never visited her ancestral country, soccer is giving Georgia State University freshman Taina Anglade a chance to reconnect with her Haitian roots. The 18-year-old in January joined the Haitian women’s national soccer […]
Posted inEconomic Development, Haiti
Atlanta Group Crowdfunding Homes for Haiti
A new Atlanta-based nonprofit is using crowdfunding to build homes for Haitian families, hoping to use its model to scale up to other countries and causes. New Story provides an […]
Posted inBarbados, Economic Development
Delta Flight Reconnects Barbados With Atlanta and Beyond
Barbados is expecting a new wave of U.S. tourism thanks to a recovering American economy and the return of a nonstop Delta Air Lines flight to the capital city of Bridgetown from Atlanta starting Dec. 4. Not only is […]
Posted inBusiness, Haiti
‘Intellectual Tourists’ and Investors Invited for a Taste of Haiti
Conventional wisdom says smart travelers should stay away from Haiti, a nation racked by corruption, instability and poverty, but the consul general in Atlanta says his country is seeking “intellectual […]
Posted inEducation, Haiti
School Built From Containers at the Forefront of Healing Haitian Children
The David Livingstone of “Dr. Livingstone, I presume,” fame — H.M. Stanley’s reported salutation on the banks of Lake Tanganyika on Nov. 10, 1871 — held a mythic status during […]
Posted inCulture, Haiti
‘RestringHaiti’ Provides Repaired Instruments to Haitian Music Students
On Jan. 12, 2010, Lizzy Sandlin was a 12-year-old eighth grader at the Atlanta International School busily studying the courses required on the international baccalaureate diploma track and practicing the […]
Posted inEconomic Development, Jamaica
Services for the Honorary Consul to Jamaica on Friday, Aug. 1
A funeral service for Vin Martin, the former honorary consul of Jamaica to Atlanta from 1997-2013, is to be held at the Springfield Baptist Church in Conyers at 11 a.m. […]
Posted inArchive, Bahamas, Culture
Bahamas Consul Congratulates Mayor Kasim Reed on Engagement
The Bahamas consul general in Atlanta is congratulating Mayor Kasim Reed on his recently announced engagement to Sarah-Elizabeth Langford, a developer and former Miss District of Columbia. The mayor,...
Posted inSaint Lucia
Consulting Gig Leads to Public Health Project in Saint Lucia
A local consultant’s infrastructure work in Saint Lucia has led to a Morehouse School of Medicine public health collaboration with one of the Caribbean nation’s top hospitals. Daraka Satcher, chief...