Dubai’s FIVE Hospitality has announced a state-of-the art beach club, Playa Pacha, opening in FIVE LUXE, its new waterfront resort. Scheduled to open on March 31st, 2024, the lavish property features 222 rooms and suites as well as seven dining and nightlife venues, according to a press release. FIVE Hospitality CEO Aloki Batra has been vocal … Read more
A Chinese flag flies high over The Bund. Liu Liqun | Corbis Documentary | Getty Images China may want a “new leap forward” in “productive forces” — but President Xi Jinping may need to resort to an old tactic to hit the country’s ambitious growth target this year, one economist warns. Beijing set its annual … Read more
Teenage superstar Luke Littler will enter this year’s UK Open at the fourth-round stage on Friday night as the world’s top 32 enter the fray at Butlin’s Minehead Resort. The unique multi-board event will see PDC Tour Card Holders compete against Rileys Amateur Qualifiers and players from the Winmau Challenge and Development Tours. Andrew Gilding … Read more
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Virginia bank says it will delay plans to auction off land at West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s posh resort in an attempt to recover more than $300 million on defaulted business loans by the governor’s family. In a filing Friday in Greenbrier County Circuit Court, Carter Bank & Trust of … Read more
An 80-year-old Canadian woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease was heinously raped by another tourist in the Bahamas last month, her son has claimed, and the incident took place about two weeks before two US women say they were also raped in the island country. The woman, who has not been named, was vacationing with … Read more
MEXICO CITY — An American woman and a man from Belize have been killed in what appears to have been a dispute between drug dealers at a beach club in the Mexican resort city of Tulum, officials confirmed Sunday. Prosecutors in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo stressed the American woman had no connection … Read more
A Houthi missile put a US destroyer’s Close-In Weapon System to the test in a recent engagement. A warship’s CIWS is usually considered its last line of defense and is for close-range intercepts. The Tuesday incident marks the latest Houthi missile attack, though not the latest exchange of fire. A Houthi anti-ship cruise missile fired … Read more
After watching Lucy pull the football from Charlie Brown’s foot at the last possible moment time and time again, we have learned our lesson and are therefore hesitant to believe that 2024 will be the year of the IPO market’s return. It may or may not happen, but we’re not betting on it. Alternative sources … Read more
Sandals Royal Bahamian left a newlywed couple annoyed after spending 3 days of their honeymoon there. The couple paid nearly $5,000 for their stay, but said the all-inclusive resort was “not a vacation.” Sam Doll said staff members “harassed” them to spend more on photos and activities. A Canadian couple expected three days of peace when they booked … Read more
Former President Bill Clinton was spotted vacationing in Mexico last week with California Gov. Gavin Newson this week amid the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related court documents that have thrust the former president back in the spotlight. Clinton was seen with Newsom, a Democrat, were seen at the Four Seasons Resort in Tamarindo, Mexico, on Friday, … Read more