Barbados Ambassador John Beale came to Atlanta on short notice, but he didn’t let his time here go to waste. The island nation’s envoy to the U.S. last Thursday received the international […]
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Posted inBahamas, Culture
Expanded Atlanta Flight Plays Key Role in Bahamas Tourism Push
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 […]
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,...