Caribbean Fever's Blog – January 2021 Archive (166)

Butch Stewart created Sandals Resorts and changed how the world goes on vacation.

The Honorable Gordon “Butch” Stewart, the master hospitality marketer who made Sandals a household name, has died at age 79.

Legendary Jamaican entrepreneur Gordon “Butch” Stewart was one of the hospitality industry’s most vibrant…

Change is coming. Next week. Travelers and commuters will be required to wear face masks on nearly all forms of public transportation as part of a sweeping new order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The order, issued late Friday, will require masks to be worn by “all passengers on public conveyances” traveling into or within the United States, including airplanes, ships,…

• More than 100million people across the Midwest and Northeast face snowy conditions through Tuesday 
• Weather warnings are in place across the country with wind gusts as strong as 45 mph forecast in New York …

Unfortunately, we must report that we’ve lost a young giant filmmaker in Gregory Everett who recently passed away as a victim of covid19. Folks, this is a heartbreaking story to write about but I shall attempt to do my best.

I first came to know this young and promising man through the late Roland Freeman as Gregory was in the beginning stages of putting together his award-winning…

R&B singer Keke Wyatt is upset at how large the Black Lives Matter movement has grown. According to Keke, she feels that Black people are doing too much - with their fight for racial equality.

We have learned that Keke was on a livestream discussion, when she started BLASTING Black people fighting for civil rights - the fight not to be disproportionately killed by police, or not to be harassed…

The board of a small Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a Black sheriff’s deputy held an emergency meeting Thursday and removed a whites-only provision from its sales contracts.

Before Darrell Semien died on Sunday (Jan. 24) of bladder cancer, the 55-year-old Black man told his family that he wanted to be buried near their home in Oberlin, La., and close to his old stomping…

R&B singer, Mario has given his huge fan-base lots of good music over the past two decades, since releasing his debut album in 2002, titled “Mario.”  The single from the album, “Just a Friend,” was a Number 1 hit on Billboard.To date,…

• Winter Storm Orlena has led to a host of winter storm watches being issued 
• The Nor'easter warnings, warnings and advisories impact 100million people 
• Twenty states in the Midwest and Northeast are preparing for the storm 
• Up to 12 inches of snow are expected to hit cities including Chicago, while…

• Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Twitter on Saturday morning that she had spoken to Donald Trump 
• She claimed they had a 'great call' and that she is 'grateful for his support'
• The QAnon-supporting congresswoman…

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they try to storm the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Demonstrators breached security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 electoral vote certification. / Getty

While there were zero issues with locating and prosecuting Black Lives Matter protestors, The Washington Post reports that the FBI and Justice Department are considering NOT charging up 800 Capitol thugs…

• The 2020 Travel Photographer of the Year contest received 25,000 entries from snappers in 147 countries
• Some submitted snaps taken at home during lockdown, others photographed countries they were stranded in
• The overall winner was Vladimir Alekseev, the competition's first-ever Russian winner …

T.I. and Tiny Deny Sexual Abuse Allegations by More Than a Dozen Women

T.I. has stepped forward to address some accusations of sex trafficking made against himself and his wife Tiny Harris.

Wendy Williams Recalls One Night Stand with Method Man – But Check Out His Classic Diss of Her [VIDEO] Method Man’s wife Tamika Smith is speaking out against Wendy Williams latest big reveal.

Cicely Tyson attends the premiere of Amazon’s “Last Flag Flying” at DGA Theater on November 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

Cicely Tyson, the beloved pioneering Black actor whose career spanned more than six decades, died Thursday at age 96.

The passing of the Hollywood star was announced by her family, via her…

• Martell DeRouen, 34, was found shot dead in his San Antonio apartment by police carrying out a welfare check on Tuesday
• Known by stage name Kardone, he was identified locally as Beyoncé's cousin 
• DeRouen is believed to be related to…