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WestJet adds five new destinations to 2025/2026 winter schedule
Travel Press
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July 8, 2025
WestJet revealed its 2025/2026 winter schedule, featuring five new destinations. While departures will increase by three per cent year-over-year, capacity will be consistent with last winter, as seats will be removed from former Sunwing/Swoop...
PaperCity Editors’ Travel Must-Haves This Summer
Paper City Magazine - Texas
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July 2, 2025
When it comes to summer travels, we at PaperCity pride ourselves on featuring the world’s most glamorous destinations where the jet set stay and play. Whether you want to escape to Amanera for a soulful restoration in the Dominican Republic, sail...
Cruise line changes who can go on its ships for the first time in its history - plus get 50% off packages
GB News
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July 8, 2025
Ambassador Cruise Line will operate exclusively as an adult-only cruise company for its entire 2027/28 season, marking a big shift in its business model. The decision affects all 75 itineraries scheduled between March 24, 2027 and April 14, 2028....
Jaguar Sentinel Enhances Disaster Preparedness in Panama Ahead of Hurricane Season
Dialogo Magazine
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July 7, 2025
Joint Task Force-Bravo (JTF-Bravo) led a two-day tabletop exercise, dubbed Jaguar Sentinel, with Panamanian emergency response personnel. Held June 25-26 at the headquarters of the Civil Protection National System (SINAPROC) in the Panama Pacifico...
Hilton officially opens all-inclusive Zemi Miches Punta Cana
Travel Press
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July 2, 2025
Zemi Miches Punta Cana All-Inclusive Resort, Curio Collection by Hilton –representing the first Curio Collection all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic. Facing the pristine shores of Playa Esmeralda, the oceanfront resort inclusdes 14...
FBI-DOD Program Enlists, Equips International Partners to Help Crush Cartel Violence
Texas Border Business
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July 1, 2025
Members of the Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala police forces attend an FBI-led tactical combat casualty care training session in Barbados in May 2024. The instruction was part of a larger U.S. Southern Command-sponsored exercise. (U.S....
‘The ground shook’: drone attacks help Haitian government wrest control of capital from criminal gangs
The Guardian
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July 2, 2025
The earth beneath Jimmy Antoine’s apartment shuddered and for a split second he feared another natural disaster had struck, like the 2010 cataclysm that brought Port-au-Prince to its knees. “The ground shook like it does during an earthquake. You...
New and Renovated Properties
Smart Meetings
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July 7, 2025
The hotel industry is in a fascinating phase of transformation—one where reinvention often takes precedence over brand-new builds. For meeting and event planners, this means the newest experiences on offer may come from familiar properties that...
Major concerns Botanical Gardens perimeter would be reduced
DR1
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Serious allegations over potential elimination of the gorgeous forestry outside the National Botanical Garden land have been making headlines in the press and social media. The Environmental Commission of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo...
Game LXXXVIII: Devil Rays at Twins
Twinkie Town - Minnesota
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July 4, 2025
First pitch: 3:10 Central Weather: National Weather Service still gutted, NASTY humid, 94° Opponent’s SB site: DRays Bay Rays starter Zack Littell was, for a few years, a Twin, or (mostly) in the Twins' minors. He came to the team in 2017, during...
Jamaica To Launch Regularisation Process for Undocumented Dominican Nationals
Nevis Pages
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July 7, 2025
Source: CNW In a landmark move hailed as a humanitarian and diplomatic triumph, the Government of Jamaica has agreed to initiate a regularisation process for Dominican citizens living in the country without legal immigration status. The...
Claes Brondal Makes a Scene of Jazz
27 East - New York
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July 7, 2025
The day after the successful Hamptons JazzFest summer launch party attracted several hundred guests at the Southampton Arts Center on June 22, Claes Brondal, executive director of the five-year, three-month annual festivity, takes a quick breather...
Cracking down on Chinese businesses that violate labor laws
DR1
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A recent crackdown by the Dominican Ministry of Labor has unearthed over 300 labor violations across 13 businesses on Duarte Avenue in Santo Domingo, with Labor Minister Eddy Olivares Ortega specifically calling out foreign, particularly Chinese,...
Profits at the Macallan’s Parent Company Dropped 26% This Year
Robb Report
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July 7, 2025
The Macallan is one of the most popular and recognizable scotch whisky brands in the world, but even this esteemed single malt distillery might be facing some tough times ahead. According to a recent article that ran at the website Scottish...
Small businesses pay higher loan rates than car buyers in the DR
DR1
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Accessing credit continues to be a costly challenge for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or Mipymes in the Dominican Republic. Borrowing for a small business is much more costly than financing a new vehicle — despite a generally...
PM Gaston Browne leads A&B delegation at 49th CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Jamaica
The Antigua Observer
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July 7, 2025
- Advertisement - Prime Minister Gaston Browne is leading the country’s delegation at the 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), being held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, from 6–8 July 2025....
WestJet redeploys network to new locations after decline in demand for flights to U.S.
CBC/Radio-Canada
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July 7, 2025
WestJet's schedule of direct flights is opening up to new locations in Mexico and Central America after the airline saw a descent in demand for U.S. destinations this year. On Monday, WestJet announced five new routes to warmer cities as part of...
Edrington profits plummet as drinkers turn away from spirits
The Drinks Business
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July 7, 2025
The Scotch whisky distiller will focus on ultra-premium products as it navigates a volatile global market. Edrington, the producer behind brands like The Macallan and Highland Park, has reported a double-digit drop in sales and profits, with...
Sofia Coppola Kicks Off Paris Haute Couture Week in Cinematic Style at Le Bal d'Été
Vanity Fair
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July 7, 2025
How do you make Paris Couture Week’s most exclusive celebration even more elegant? Put Sofia Coppola in charge as artistic director, of course. Such was the case Sunday evening, when around 300 guests gathered at the Palais du Louvre’s Musée des...
Millions of flies to be dropped over Texas to combat flesh-eating maggots
The Independent
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July 4, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...