Category Archives: Community | Eco | Sustainable

Breast Cancer Awareness is observed worldwide every October with campaigns and events planned to increase the awareness of the disease.  Here in Antigua & Barbuda breast cancer is the most common cancer with 1 out of every 4 women being diagnosed.  Many of our staff, friends, families and guests have in some way been affected.  Each year we “Go Pink” and join in the cause to build awareness by donating or participating in the following events: Oct-19-2014:  Relay for Hope …
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Being a Caribbean island cricket and football (soccer) is normally the sport one would see being played on the village fields, on the beach and on side streets.  However as the Diaspora in the Caribbean and here in Antigua changes baseball is quickly becoming a popular sport.  In a few years we may very well be singing “Rally around the West Indies” at Baseball World Series :-)! Through affiliation with the Little League Baseball International Program headquartered in Pennsylvania the …
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Over the past two years ten students of the Haitian Hotel School through assistance and funding from the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association Education Foundation (CHTAEF-Haiti) have been attending Antigua & Barbuda Hospitality Training Institute pursing their Associate Degree. The Haitian Hotel School was destroyed in the January 2010 earthquake leaving a lot of students with no access to hospitality training.  CHTAEF- Haiti Project does not aim to replace a Haitian Hotel School but provide immediate assistance to enable students …
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“Beauty, Strength and Transformation” is the foundation on which Maimah Karmo founded Tigerlily Foundation.   After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32, Maimah was faced with the daunting challenge of finding treatment and resources to survive cancer.  Even though there was a lot of awareness programs there were no social programs to provide financial assistance for daily expenses such as groceries, childcare, mortgages etc.  Now in 43 states and strictly grassroots Tigerlily Foundation provides support and assistance to young …
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Our Team recognizes that our Hotel has an important role to play in ensuring that we do all possible to protect and improve our island’s environment for both ourselves and future generations and assist all Tourism partners in making Antigua an Eco Tourism destination. Here’s our Environmental Policy: Our Hotel Personnel are committed to taking action. To invite and encourage all persons associated with us to actively join us in our efforts to improve and protect our environment. To achieve, …
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“Bienvenue aux alizés Trade Winds Hôtel.  Comment allez-vous?” “Merci, bien, et vous?” “Ca va bien” Sometime last year we wrote a blog post about learning new things and made reference to an old adage “you learn something new every day”.  Well three of our employees have taken on the challenge of “apprendre à parler français a”…learning to speak French. With the recent addition of new airlifts between France to Antigua via Guadeloupe we have seen an increase in French speaking …
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