We would like to inform our readers that Caribbean News Digital will be out during the holiday season from Dec. 24 to Jan. 3. The staff wants to thank all of you for just another year of support and confidence in our online newspaper. We want to wish you a merry Christmas and a very happy New Year!

For a third year in a row, Spain-based Excelencias Group has attended some of Russia’s major travel and tourism fairs during a weeklong array of events that turned Moscow into the world capital of the leisure industry.

Caribbean News Digital avails itself of this opportunity to wish you all a happy holiday season and the very best for 2010, a year that might hopefully be teeming with good news despite the ongoing economic and financial crisis that encircles the globe.

With the weekend launch in Havana of issues two and three of Art by Excelencias magazine, out publishing staff stresses its commitment to a project that saw the light of day in the summer in an effort to showcase the very best of the contemporary arts in the Caribbean and the Americas, as well as to provide a space for sharing views and igniting debates among artists, critics and experts in the field.

Jose Carlos de Santiago, President and Editor-in-Chief of the Excelencias Group, walked away with the top award for the Best General Publication Editor category at the annual ceremony of Spain’s Association of Periodical Publication Editors (AEEPP is the Spanish acronym).

Jose Carlos de Santiago, President and Editor-in-Chief of the Excelencias Group, walked away with the top award for the Best General Publication Editor category at the annual ceremony of Spain’s Association of Periodical Publication Editors (AEEPP is the Spanish acronym).