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Media Marketplace is expected to attract well over 100 key journalists from a wide range of travel media. This annual event, which will take place at the Marriott Marquis’ Marquis Ballrooms A, B, and C, provides each CTO member government with the opportunity to interact with writers and photographers from trade and consumer media.
Additionally, a host of tourism industry partners, including hoteliers, tour operators and airlines participate each year and use this as a valuable networking opportunity. Typically, information from this event reaches the public through interviews conducted by representatives of both the print and electronic media, who are eager to know what’s new and different in the Caribbean.
Caribbean Tourism Organization’s Caribbean Vendors featured interviews for our World Liberty TV Travel and Tourism Channel.
Richard Oliver Skerritt, more affectionately known as “Ricky”, became Minister of State with responsibility for Tourism, Sports & Culture in 2004 following the October general elections of the Federation of St. Kitts & Nevis.
Throughout his distinguished life and career, Minister Skerritt has been heavily involved in varied pursuits related to his current position. He began his working life as a science teacher at his alma mater, the Basseterre High School, where he excelled in sports and academia. Skerritt subsequently held top positions in private enterprise on St. Kitts, such as: Delisle Walwyn & Co. Ltd – a leading travel and tourism company, Blue Water Safaris, the Ocean Terrace Inn Group of Companies and the St. Kitts Bottling Co., Ltd.
Prior to his Ministerial appointment, he was the first full time Manager of the West Indies Cricket Team; cricket being a sport he had been affiliated with at all levels for over twenty years. It is therefore no surprise that Ricky has been instrumental in attracting international cricket at the highest level to St. Kitts and Nevis, which was a host venue for the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup (ICC CWC) 2007.
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Acunto is the head coach of boxing at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, where he developed and teaches the only boxing class for college credit in existence. He has also taught pugilism at Fairfield University, Concordia College, Sarah Lawrence College, at YMCAs and the Purchase Community House.
In addition, he has traveled the country conducting hundreds of clinics and seminars on the “sweet science.”
Acunto has been a member of the New York State Athletic Commission since 1945 and is currently a Commissioner. In 1969, with Rocky Marciano, Acunto founded the American Association for the Improvement of Boxing. He is now President Emeritus and Chairman of the Board of the prestigious organization.
In 1988, Acunto was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame and recently, in 1998, he was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame. To date, he has taught the fistic way to over 8,000 young men. Of these students, one became a world champion, several have been leading contenders, and many have been amateur champions.
He lives with his wife Mercedes in Mount Vernon, New York. They have one son, three daughters, four grandchildren, and a wealth of boxing memories.
A sold-out crowd of more than 500 enjoyed a day of boxing.
“People came out in force and this was our largest attendance ever,” RING 8 President and dinner chairman Bob Duffy said. “On behalf of all RING 8 members, I’d like to thank everybody for attending, especially the award winners, many of whom traveled a great distance to be with us on the silver anniversary of our Holiday Event and Awards Ceremony.”
“A good time was had by all,” Duffy continued. “All of the award winners received a brass plaque, exclusively molded for RING 8. Manny liked it so much that he took it home on the plane and proudly showed it off in Detroit. We’re looking forward to next’s year holiday event, as well as the first New York State Boxing Hall of Fame awards dinner on April 1st at Russo’s on The Bay.”
Keisha Whitaker enjoyed a prestigious and lucrative career as a model with the Ford and Elite agencies before traveling the entrepreneurial route as the founder and promoter of her own lip gloss line. In terms of filmed entertainment, Whitaker executive produced the 2008 documentary Kassim the Dream – an inspiring biographical portrait. She is also the wife of Academy Award Winner superstar actor Forest Whittaker.
The first CES took place in New York City back in June 1967 with 200 exhibitors and has grown 10 fold since then. Some of the products that have debuted at CES in the past include the Compact Disc Player, Plasma TV, Microsoft Xbox, Blu-Ray DVD, 3D HDTV and more. Representatives from over 130 countries typically travel to see the show. CES 2009 named North America’s greenest show by Trade Show Executive Magazine
Saint Lucia is a Caribbean island between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago.
The island, with its fine natural harbor at Castries, was contested between England and France throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries (changing possession 14 times); it was finally ceded to the UK in 1814. Even after the abolition of slavery on its plantations in 1834, Saint Lucia remained an agricultural island, dedicated to producing tropical commodity crops. Self-government was granted in 1967 and independence in 1979.
The island nation has been able to attract foreign business and investment, especially in its offshore banking and tourism industries, with a surge in foreign direct investment in 2006, attributed to the construction of several tourism projects.
Although crops such as bananas, mangos, and avocados continue to be grown for export, tourism provides Saint Lucia’s main source of income and the industry is the island’s biggest employer. The tourism sector is likely to face declining revenues with the global economic downturn as US and European travel declines. The manufacturing sector is the most diverse in the Eastern Caribbean area, and the government is trying to revitalize the banana industry.
