The Barbados Tourism Marketing Incorporated is working to boost airlift from European and other emerging markets. The announcement from Chief Executive Officer Andrea Franklin comes after recent news of a significant increase in airlift from the US market. Ms. Franklin says BTMI teams are working to build capacity into Barbados. She was a guest on a special Tourism Week edition of Mornin’ Barbados. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association, Javon Griffith suggests the expansion into more markets and key sectors will ensure the island is a year-round destination.

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley believes significant change has been made since proposing the Bridgetown Initiative, and according to her, Bridgetown 3.0 will be released this week. Ms. Mottley is among several Caribbean and world leaders in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. During an SDG Lounge session at UN Headquarters, the Barbadian leader provided insight into Bridgetown 3.0.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Tuesday said that several items found by members of the public at Mosquito Creek in Oropouche, south of here, were not suspected military “warheads”. The police said that officers of the Southern, South Western Divisions and Coastal and Air Support Unit, visited the scene on Sunday and discovered several “cylindrical projectiles” amongst the rocks on the banks of the Godineau Rive. “Whilst the items did appear similar to military munitions, a team of specialists from the TTPS Explosive Detection and Disposal Unit, ‘Bomb Squad,’ with the assistance of international partners, further examined the objects and they were positively identified to be parts belonging to Concrete Piercing Tools used in the construction industry,” the police said. “However, a number of major components for the functioning of the items were not present and in the interest of public safety, the items were seized and removed from the site.” The police said that further investigations are being conducted and that the “TTPS would like to thank the members of the public for the information shared and urge everyone to continue to support the organization as we work together to maintain safer neighbourhoods and communities”.