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Watch Your Weight. American Airlines and American Eagle are instituting a box and bag embargo on oversize, overweight or excess baggage from June 6 to Aug. 25 on flights from the U.S. to Grenada, Jamaica, Haiti, Ecuador, the Bahamas, Mexico, Puerto Rico and other destinations in the Caribbean and Central and South America. Passengers will be allowed one carry-on bag, with a maximum size of 45 linear inches and a maximum weight of 40 lb. Checked luggage weighing between 51 and 70 pounds will cost $50 per bag. Sports equipment, such as golf bags, surfboards and other items...
...Pays to Pack Light. The good news is that Air Jamaica will allow passengers to check their first bag free. The bad news is that your second check bag will now cost you $25. Worse yet, your second bag won't be on the same flight with you to Grenada or Barbados. It'll be sent within seven days, and you'll have to go back to the airport to pick...
...forays into entrepreneurship and community service. Besides teaching volunteer workshops for SPARK, an after school program in Boston for inner-city youth, he works on “La Casas de Experanza,” a micro-enterprise project aimed at helping develop the slums of La Prusia, near Grenada, Nicaragua, by giving them the means to support themselves in an independent, sustainable way. “I’m researching environmentally conscious kiln options and developing a business model,” he says. “As of now, it’s basically 200 families living...
...foreign data centers to supplement their labor force for one-time tasks. In 1972, Boston-based John Hancock Insurance hired Key Universal, in Connecticut, to computerize more than 10 million documents, some dating back as far as half a century ago. Key Universal subcontracted the job to workers in Grenada, who labored for twelve months to transfer the information to magnetic tapes. Foreign concerns are becoming more aggressive in seeking clients for their sophisticated wares. In Ireland, the government's development agency has targeted international services as a high-priority area for attracting foreign firms to the country. Compucorp...
...color and the positive influence of his father, Anthony, have drawn parallels between Hamilton and golfer Tiger Woods. Hamilton, whose grandfather came to Britain from Grenada in the '50s, hopes his success will stoke new interest among ethnic groups that have long steered clear of Formula One. "People that can relate to [me] will see that it's possible and also try to get into the sport," he told the bbc. Inspired by Hamilton's youth, good looks and wholesome image, marketers are likely to get equally fired...