A Business That Clicks
It’s easy for Ernesto Dos Santos to freeze frame the turning point in his life and career. It was the day a representative from the Dominican Jazz Festival viewed his black and white photos exhibited...
View ArticleSuccess In Sails
The sounds of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young serenade excursion customers as they step aboard The Cat, Jim Trilling’s pearl white catamaran. Like entering the living room of a palatial home at sea,...
View ArticleTales From The Cabana Bar
In 1984, Jeff Rollings rolled into Providenciales, the most inhabited of the Turks and Caicos Islands, not quite knowing what to expect. “Back then, you could walk Grace Bay Beach on a Wednesday and...
View ArticleFinding Herself In Aruba
Networking to island success When Tina Causey-Bislick moved to Aruba in 1999, she never dreamed she’d be a restaurant owner. Then again, she never imagined starting a prominent Aruba magazine,...
View ArticleThe President Pilot Running an Airline and an Island
Inspired by the exploits of Jose Dormoy, the Caribbean’s legendary World War II fighter pilot, a young Bruno Magras dreamed of flying airplanes. In 1968, at the age of 16, Magras left his native St....
View ArticlePhoto Safari Hawaii
Creating a Business Niche in Maui Many of the oceanfront hotel properties on the Hawaiian island of Maui are so beautiful that guests rarely leave their cozy confines. Maui-based photographer Brian...
View ArticleTapping the Caribbean Dream
St. John Brewers in the U.S. Virgin Islands U.S. retail dollars for craft beer in 2012 was estimated at $10.2 billion, up from $8.7 billion in 2011. In 2004, on the Caribbean island of St. John, no bar...
View ArticleStirring a Business That Cooks
Julia Child’s The French Chef was one of the most popular television shows of the 60s and early 70s. Newly married and an aspiring cook, Carole Kotkin found herself mesmerized by Child’s culinary...
View ArticleConnecting the Yachts in Antigua
Tina Westwood’s Caribbean Concierge Services The roots of Tina Westwood’s business taking care of Antigua’s yacht owners first sprouted when she was 19 years old. A girlfriend asked if she’d like to...
View ArticleIsland Restaurant Love Story
Straw Hat Restaurant on Anguilla Peter Parles bolted out of his Straw Hat Restaurant office like a man on fire. “We’ve got Internet problems,” Parles confided to a friend. Straw Hat is located on the...
View ArticleDiving into the Deep End in Eleuthera
In 2006, Tricia Ferguson received a desperate phone call from a girlfriend working in Harbour Island in the Bahamas. “My friend needed a personal chef to prepare meals for Richard Gere. Up until that...
View ArticleSt. Croix’s First Family of Flight
Billy Bohlke’s work environment fits like a glove, and he can make it move at mach speed. Today the 37-year-old President and Chief Pilot of Bohlke International Airways in St. Croix will take his...
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