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NEWS 7 Caribbean welcomes 2.1 million Canadians in first half of 2016 TORONTO, The Caribbean welcomed approximately 2.1 million Canadians during the first six months of 2016 Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation Hugh Riley said. This represents a decline of 3.7 per cent when compared to the same period last year; and has been attributed to the depreciation of the Canadian dollar with respect to the US dollar. “We saw the numbers fall during each of the first six months, with the exception of May which was flat,” Riley told journalists here on Tuesday. “In the first quarter we recorded a decline of 3.9 percent, and a slightly better performance in the second quarter, which recorded a drop of 3.3 percent when compared to the same period in 2015.” Eight of the 24 reporting destinations recorded growth, with highs of 24.9 percent in the Turks and Caicos Islands and 14.1 percent in Suriname. Barbados, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Guyana, St. Maarten and St. Vincent & the Grenadines registered moderate growth. Cuba remained the top Caribbean destination for Canadians during the first half of this year, receiving over 527 thousand visitors, down 4.3 percent when compared to last year. InterCaribbean Airways increases airlift from Antigua to Tortola for winter schedule ST JOHN’S, Antigua -- Turks and Caicos Islands-based passenger carrier interCaribbean Airways has increased service connecting Antigua (ANU) and Tortola (EIS) as of November 14, 2016. As part of the winter schedule, the airline decided to increase connectivity between both islands to daily service. interCaribbean Airways passengers will continue to have the ability to connect with British Airways service to London. Trevor Sadler, CEO of interCaribbean Airways, said, “We remain committed to the Antigua market while we look for ways to better serve the needs of the market, while maintaining a profitable operation.” InterCaribbean Airways, founded 25 years ago, is based in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). The company operates a fleet of EMB 120, Twin Otters and BE99 aircraft providing service from the TCI to Antigua, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. International services also include flights between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and domestic flights operated in the TCI and Jamaica. Suriname will tow a giant bag of water to fight drought in Barbados PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Auke Piek, a 44-year-old Dutch engineer, says he has a solution to the Caribbean’s worst drought in half a century — and it lies hundreds of miles away in the tropical rain forests of Suriname. This week, a boat will tow a giant bag made from PVC-coated fabric with enough water to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool from Suriname to drought-stricken Barbados and Curacao. It will be a test run for a technology Piek said he wants to expand to other Caribbean islands, and eventually, as far afield as the Middle East. “Water is our blue gold,” said Erlyn Power, Suriname representative for Piek’s company, Amazone Resources. “I visit islands where people are having their water turned off and here we have so much of it that it’s just flowing into the sea.” The drought that started early last year in the Caribbean shrank reservoirs across the region, forcing utilities from Trinidad & Tobago to Jamaica to ration water. For some islands, such as Cuba, it was the worst drought in more than 100 years. And this may just be the start. The Barbados Water Authority, which signed a memorandum of understanding for the test run but is not buying the initial shipment, said in a statement that the accord it part of its long-term plans to tackle the impact of global warming. Amazone has received the rights from Suriname’s government to pump water from the mouths of the Coppename and Suriname rivers, both of which meet World Health Organization standards, the company said. On Tuesday, the bag was being filled in the Suriname River, Piek said at a ceremony. The trip to Barbados was expected to Continued on page 25 Caribbean Times | December 1-14, 2016
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