Nearly 50 years after it was founded in Arecibo, the world’s foremost single-dish radio telescope facility is the focus of a massive redevelopment project that calls for the construction of a hotel and planetarium to the tune of $50 million, government and facility officials said Tuesday.
Last year, Haiti received around 600,000 foreigners — half of them “diaspora Haitians” visiting family and friends. The other half was largely business executives and representatives of NGOs. This excludes the 600,000 cruise Haship tourists who called on Labadie, Royal Caribbean’s private island off the north coast of Haiti.
Veteran hotelier Raúl Bustamante has been named chairman of the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau’s board of directors, the trade group announced Monday. Gov. Luis Fortuño, who had appointed Bustamante as member of the board in August 2011, designated him to the new post.
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