During the launch of this year’s festival, Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy, in his address, noted that the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. would be putting more resources behind the festival, owing to the increased number of extra-regional visitors coming to the island.

The U.S. and Cuba signed an aviation arrangement that allows U.S. commercial flights to land and sets guidelines, like no discriminatory fees.

American Airlines has announced that it is canceling all flights to and from Brussels until Thursday, April 7. On April 7 the airline will operate a flight from Philadelphia to Brussels, with a return flight April 8.

Arrindell said she planned to meet with JetBlue management next week to convince them to continue their service to the island. However, JetBlue denies terminating flights.

The Spanish low cost airline will operate one flight a week to the Canary Island during July and August and two flights a week in September and October.

Air Canada passengers can reach Asia that much easier now that the airline has begun a code-sharing agreement with EVA Air, Taiwan’s first privately owned international airline.