July 18, 2013
“To our employees, our millions of friends and valued customers, we have taken note of all your comments and suggestions. We appreciate all of them and express profound thanks. In the face of serious challenges, our focus remains on improving customer experience and achieving profitability.” – Captain Ian Brunton, CEO, LIAT
“In many cases it makes a lot of sense to take the pain and get it over with and get things back into balance so that you can focus on the investment that we need.” – Dr. DeLisle Worrell, Governor, Central Bank of Barbados (Barbados Nation)
“Forty years at any effort can be quite meaningful, especially if one has had some successes in that period. The Bahamas knows this, having been independent from Britain for that exact period of time…CARICOM too knows this, having led the regional integration effort for 40 years and having done so with some positive results. CARICOM’s finest hour has yet to chime, and if it overcomes the challenge of imperfect unity and seizes the opportunity to achieve some practical results on behalf of the community, it could have a glorious celebration on its 80th birthday.” – Zhivargo Laing, economist, consultant and motivational speaker
“While overall U.S. exports fell in May – the third monthly decline so far this year – travel exports continue to be a source of durable strength for the U.S. economy, rising in May for the fourth time in the past five months. Moreover, with travel exports outpacing travel imports, America’s trade surplus in travel improved in May to exceed $4 billion. The travel industry continues to be a leading performer for the U.S. economy on the export front. ” – David Huether, Senior Vice President, Research and Economics, U.S. Travel Association (Travel Agent)
“As a young man, Uncle Ulric (Cross – Trinidadian World War II navigator, jurist and diplomat) inspired us all because his life spanned key moments of the 20th Century: the Second World War, the rise of Pan Africanism, the birth of Independence in Africa and the Caribbean, the emergence of powerful Black Leaders across the Diaspora, and the coming to voice of Caribbean societies.” – Felix Cross, Composer and Theatre Director
“We don’t go into problem nations to solve the problems. We go into developing nations to help the local people solve their own problems.” – Father Stan Hosie, Co-founder, Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific/ Counterpart International
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, orator and writer