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Delegation targets industry relationships, destination access and new opportunities in global yachting market
MONACO (Sept. 24, 2026) — Anguilla is advancing its luxury yachting strategy at the Monaco Yacht Show 2026 this week, engaging directly with yacht owners, operators, developers and industry leaders while gathering insights to strengthen the island’s destination and port-of-entry experience.
The delegation’s participation comes as Anguilla prepares for the upcoming yachting season and reflects a broader effort to strengthen the island’s position in the market, deepen industry relationships and ensure its tourism product and visitor experience continue to meet the expectations of luxury travelers.
Representing Anguilla are Sean Richard, chairman of the Anguilla Tourist Board (ATB); Jameel Rochester, director of tourism; Keri Rogers, manager of destination experience; and Sherman Williams, CEO of the Anguilla Air and Sea Ports Authority (AASPA).
The Monaco Yacht Show is one of the world’s premier gatherings of superyachts, yacht owners, charter professionals, luxury brands and leaders across the international yachting industry.
Throughout the show, the Anguilla delegation is participating in targeted meetings and networking engagements focused on market expectations, future collaboration and opportunities to strengthen the island’s position within the sector.
“Our presence at the Monaco Yacht Show is an important opportunity to ensure that Anguilla is represented in one of the world’s leading luxury and yachting environments,” said Richard. “Beyond showcasing the destination, we are focused on building meaningful relationships with owners, operators, developers and industry partners. These engagements allow us to better understand the opportunities ahead and how Anguilla can continue to grow within this market while preserving the qualities that make our island distinctive.”
Anguilla’s participation also has an operational focus with AASPA using the Monaco Yacht Show to hear directly from guests about destination access, arrival procedures and the overall port experience.
“The engagements in Monaco have been valuable from a ports and destination-access perspective. They allow us to hear directly from owners, operators and industry professionals about what they expect when arriving at a luxury destination,” said Williams.
“As we prepare for the upcoming yachting and small- to medium-sized luxury vessel season, these discussions will support further engagement and our continued efforts to enhance the official port-of-entry experience at Road Bay including stronger coordination among the relevant agencies and stakeholders. Our aim is for the arrival experience to reflect the quality, efficiency and hospitality associated with Anguilla.”
The participation of both ATB and AASPA reflects an effort to connect destination promotion with the full visitor journey, from arrival and port procedures to the experiences yacht owners, charter guests and other visitors enjoy across the island.
From left: Sean Richard; Tahiana Schwan, area director of sales for Belmond Hotels’ Caribbean portfolio which includes Cap Juluca; and Jameel Rochester at the Owners’ Club Cocktail Reception during the Monaco Yacht Show 2026. Belmond was also a sponsor partner for the event.
As part of its Monaco activities, ATB also partnered with BOAT International as a Premier Partner and participated as a host destination for an exclusive Owners’ Club Cocktail Reception aboard the 111-meter Leviathan motor yacht, hosted by Oceanco.
The reception provided an opportunity to introduce Anguilla to an international audience of yacht owners and industry stakeholders through destination content and an Anguilla-inspired culinary activation.
Guests were served the Shoal Bay Margarita, created for the occasion and rimmed with locally produced Anguillian salt supplied by Josveek Huligar of Anguilla Sands, Salts & Chocolate in South Hill Village. The activation highlighted Anguilla’s culinary identity while providing exposure for a local enterprise.
Anguilla is also featured in a two-page spread in “BOAT International: The Monaco Issue,” highlighting the island’s beaches, gastronomy, accommodations and appeal to yacht owners and charter guests seeking privacy, authenticity and understated luxury.
“Anguilla is uniquely suited to the luxury yachting market. Our destination offers exceptional experiences without compromising the privacy, authenticity and effortless sophistication that today’s discerning traveler values,” said Rochester.
“Through strategic partnerships such as BOAT International, together with direct engagement with yacht owners, operators and key industry stakeholders, we are strengthening Anguilla’s visibility and creating opportunities to establish the island as an essential part of the Caribbean yachting itinerary.”
The Monaco mission forms part of ATB’s broader strategy to attract high-value visitors while ensuring tourism growth remains aligned with Anguilla’s distinctive brand, local economic opportunities and commitment to quality experiences.
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Sept. 24, 2026: A close colleague called recently with two penetrating questions: How do we prepare younger people to lead, and how do we persuade experienced leaders to prepare them for Caribbean opportunity? I have kept thinking about those questions because they reach far beyond politics. They touch government, business, churches, schools, universities, hospitals, and community organizations across the Caribbean. We are good at celebrating leaders after years of service. We remember their speeches, honor their achievements, and sometimes name buildings after them. That is our sunshine. But a harder question remains: Who is ready when the leader is no longer there? A successful organization should not have to search for leadership after a leader leaves. It should already know who is ready to step forward.
A tree offers a simple picture. It grows upward, but it also creates shade beneath its branches. That shade gives other life room to grow. Experienced leaders have knowledge that younger people cannot gain quickly from books: how to handle a crisis, read a room, build trust, recover from failure, and make difficult decisions when every option has a cost. That knowledge should move to the next generation. A senior leader can start right now: choose two or three younger people, give them real work, let them observe important decisions, explain why choices are made, allow them to try, correct their mistakes, and increase their responsibility as they grow. Mentoring matters most when wisdom is followed by opportunity.
Then we meet the shadows. Caribbean societies are small, and relationships matter. That is part of our strength. Yet those same relationships can complicate succession. Sometimes loyalty receives more weight than ability. Sometimes a young person receives a title but no authority. Sometimes an experienced leader keeps doing everything because it seems faster and safer. The result is predictable. When transition arrives, people suddenly ask, “Who can do the job?” That question should have an answer years earlier. The real danger is not older leaders staying involved. It is organizations that depend so heavily on one person that few others learn how to lead.
The solution is practical. Build an intergenerational leadership partnership. Let experienced leaders provide wisdom, access, institutional memory, relationships, and honest counsel. Let emerging leaders bring new ideas, technology, networks, questions, and energy. Then give younger leaders something more valuable than encouragement: responsibility. Give them a project. Give them a budget. Give them a deadline. Let them make decisions. Review the results together. Every organization can ask four questions: Who are we developing? What responsibility have we given them? What can they now do without us? Who could step forward tomorrow if we were suddenly unavailable? Asked regularly, these questions turn succession from a crisis exercise into everyday leadership practice.
The prime minister, minister, parliamentarian, pastor, professor, entrepreneur, mechanic, farmer, fisherman, teacher, parent, firefighter, police commissioner, permanent secretary, physician, educator, football coach, cricket captain, netball captain, community leader, and board member all have a place in this work. Leadership is temporary; communities and institutions must continue. Older leaders have experience worth passing on. Younger leaders have a future worth preparing for. Sunshine reminds us to honor achievement. Shade reminds us to create room for growth. Shadows show us what needs attention. The deepest question for any leader is a mirror: “Who will be ready because I prepared them?” When that question shapes how we lead today, succession no longer waits for someone to leave. It starts while they are still here. A so de ting set.
News Americas, NY, NY, Thurs. Sept. 24, 2026: US ICE today deported Pastor Molis Augustave to Haiti, ending a 19-day journey from a routine traffic stop in York, Pennsylvania to removal from the country where his US citizen wife and two US-born children remain.
Augustave, a York pastor and former We Are CASA organizer, was handed to ICE by West Manchester Township police on September 5th following a stop for a broken headlight – made possible by the township’s 287(g) agreement with federal immigration authorities. He was scheduled for deportation on September 17th but was pulled off that flight at the last minute after a nationwide advocacy campaign led by his wife, Omara, and a coalition of immigrant rights and faith organizations.
That reprieve was brief. According to We Are CASA, the pressure that got him removed from the first flight prompted a review of his pending I-485 green card application – which the Department of Homeland Security denied two business days later, on September 21. He was deported today, September 24th.
“They sought to silence a shepherd,” said Jossie Flor Sapunar, National Communications Director of We Are CASA, in a statement. “The federal government feared a Black man from Haiti who loved his wife, cared for his children, pastored a congregation, and made a people-powered movement… But they cannot deport a legacy.”
Ama Frimpong, Chief of Services and Legal Advocacy at We Are CASA, said Augustave had an approved I-130 petition, a pending I-485 application, a pending motion to reopen his removal proceedings, and a habeas petition — none of which stopped the deportation. “USCIS did not review his case,” Frimpong said. “In summarily denying his green card application, it rubber-stamped a predetermined determination to deport him.”
From detention in Louisiana before his removal, Augustave published a reflection describing what he learned while awaiting his fate alongside 89 others on the flight he was pulled from: “For every person whose name becomes known, there are so many others whose names we never hear… Who knows whether one of them was afraid? Who knows whether one left children behind? Who knows whether someone arrived in Haiti without family or friends to receive them?”
Guerline Jozef, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, called the deportation “cruelty” and “ethnic cleansing dressed up in bureaucratic language,” pointing to Haiti’s ongoing instability. “The Haitian people have already suffered too much. They have been forced to flee their native homes due to extreme violence political turmoil, destabilization, poverty, and famine due in part to the US. Foreign policies towards Haiti,” said Jozef. “Pastor Molis is a man of God. He is a Haitian Christian who built a life in America, who is married to an American citizen, who raised American children, who pastored an American and Haitian congregation. And this administration put him on a plane like he was nothing. This is cruel and inhumane. This is ethnic cleansing dressed up in bureaucratic language. We will continue fight for Pastor Molis. We will fight for every immigrant sent back to a country they do where they are not guaranteed safety and protection. And we will not stop until they are all able to stay here with their families.”
Augustave’s wife, Omara, and their two children, Isaac and Sofia, remain in York. A Motion to Reopen his removal proceedings remains pending before the Board of Immigration Appeals.
The US State Department has warned Americans not to travel to Haiti but continues to deport nationals there despite the gang violence and instability of the country.
NEWS AMERICAS, NY, NY, Thurs. Sept. 24, 2026: The CARICOM South American nation of Guyana has numbers most developing countries could only dream of. The country’s economy has expanded at extraordinary rates since offshore oil production began. World Bank data put nominal GDP per capita at an estimated US$31,603.90 in 2025, up from just US$6,405.60 in 2019. Real GDP growth was estimated at 15.4% in 2025 after expanding 43.8% in 2024.
On paper, Guyana is booming. Yet the daily experience for many Guyanese remains far more complicated.
A News Americas analysis of Caribbean wages earlier this year found Guyana’s statutory minimum wage at approximately US$1.66 an hour, or roughly US$285 a month – placing its lowest-paid workers near the bottom of the Caribbean wage table even as the country experiences an unprecedented oil boom.
That contrast raises a question increasingly difficult to ignore: when does extraordinary economic growth become extraordinary development?
A boat the Demerara river in Georgetown, Guyana (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP via Getty Images)
The wage numbers become even more striking when measured against the cost of everyday life. According to crowd-sourced cost-of-living database Expatistan, estimated monthly expenses for a single person in Guyana are G$271,720, while estimated costs for a family of four are G$613,266 per month.
Housing alone can consume a substantial portion of income. Expatistan estimates monthly rent for a furnished studio in a normal area at G$65,000, while an 85-square-meter furnished home in a normal area averages G$136,983 per month, before utilities.
The Expatistan figures are user-contributed estimates rather than official household-expenditure statistics, but they help illustrate the affordability pressures confronting workers at the lower end of Guyana’s wage scale. News Americas has raised the broader issue before: as oil production and national wealth surge, the central question is increasingly not whether Guyana is becoming richer, but how much of that wealth is translating into broad-based prosperity for Guyanese themselves.
Guyana’s poverty statistics reveal another major gap in understanding who is benefiting from the oil boom. An Inter-American Development Bank poverty study, using Guyana’s 2021 Labor Force Survey, estimated that 58% of the population lived in poverty, including 32% in extreme poverty.
That figure should not be interpreted as a 2025 poverty rate. It reflects 2021 data. The World Bank’s most recent comparable poverty estimate is even older. It reported that 48.4% of Guyanese lived below the upper-middle-income poverty line in 2019, down from 60.9% in 2006.
That means one of the world’s fastest-growing economies still lacks sufficiently current national poverty data to show precisely how much the oil boom has reduced deprivation. And that itself is significant. If economic growth is transforming Guyana at unprecedented speed, then measuring whether that transformation is reaching households should be equally urgent.
Electricity remains one of the most visible tests. Guyana Power and Light, (GPL), acknowledged this month that rising electricity demand and pressure on the distribution network were contributing to recent outages. Peak demand had increased from 221 megawatts in 2025 to approximately 257 megawatts, with the highest demand generally occurring between 7 and 9 p.m.
GPL says households’ simultaneous use of air-conditioning units, fans, lights and other appliances during those hours is contributing to the increased demand. The explanation, however, highlights the larger infrastructure challenge.
For households, unreliable electricity means disruption and inconvenience. For businesses and investors, it means something more serious. Reliable electricity is fundamental to manufacturing, retail, healthcare, hospitality, data services and virtually every modern commercial activity. Guyana’s economic expansion is creating demand faster than parts of its basic infrastructure can accommodate.
Water infrastructure presents another challenge. The Guyana Water Inc., (GWI), says it has been investing heavily in treatment plants and distribution systems, but water-quality concerns remain in several areas.
But a 2025 Public Utilities Commission report flagged problems involving color, turbidity and iron levels at treatment facilities in Regions 4, 7 and 10. GWI has disputed suggestions that these findings mean the water is unsafe, arguing that the issues relate principally to appearance, taste and operational standards rather than public-health parameters.
That distinction matters. But so does the broader point: in an economy generating extraordinary new national wealth, citizens increasingly expect basic public services to improve visibly alongside the macroeconomic indicators.
Guyana’s fiscal position remains substantially stronger than many Caribbean economies.
The IDB’s latest Caribbean Economics Quarterly says the country’s overall debt levels remain “highly sustainable.” But it also reports that Guyana’s total debt ratio increased from 24.3% of GDP in 2024 to 28.6% in 2025, as external debt increased.
At the same time, the actual dollar amount of public debt is climbing sharply. Senior Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh announced earlier this year that total Public and Publicly Guaranteed debt had reached US$7.7 billion at the end of 2025, up from US$5.993 billion a year earlier. Kaieteur News has reported that government borrowing planned for 2026 could push Guyana’s public debt to approximately US$10.3 billion by year-end.
That apparent contradiction is possible because Guyana’s economy is expanding so rapidly that debt can increase substantially in dollar terms while remaining relatively modest as a percentage of GDP.
Borrowing can be entirely sustainable if those funds are converted into productive infrastructure and long-term economic capacity. Indeed, the IDB notes that Guyana has dramatically increased capital expenditure since oil production began as the government seeks to address the country’s infrastructure deficit. The real issue, then, is not simply how much Guyana borrows. It is what Guyana receives in return.
Guyana has moved from relative obscurity in global energy markets to one of the world’s most closely watched oil economies in only a few years.
Roads are being built. Hospitals and schools are being expanded. New hotels, businesses and housing developments are appearing. Infrastructure spending is occurring on a scale Guyana could scarcely have contemplated before oil. That investment matters. So does the enormous challenge of upgrading systems built for a much smaller economy while demand is expanding at extraordinary speed.
But GDP alone cannot be the final measure of success. The ultimate test will be whether Guyanese can feel the boom – in reliable electricity, clean and dependable water, affordable living costs, better healthcare, stronger schools, improved communities, higher household incomes and a measurable reduction in poverty.
Guyana’s economic boom is unquestionably real. The next question is whether it becomes something even more consequential: a development boom.
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