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Zoning approval has been granted for Cayman Enterprise Citys proposed c&us on a 70-acre site in South Sound. Long-term plans for a cluster of office buildings, homes, restaurants and a hotel surrounding a man-made lake have been outlined for the Special Economic Zone.

An unusually large number of cruise passengers are scheduled to descend on Grand Cayman in the days leading up to Christmas and the New Year.

The $365 million Ironwood golf resort project will move forward without a final agreement on a highway extension previously viewed as a deal breaker for the development.

Kimpton Hotels has begun the recruitment process for the newly named Seafire Resort and Spa on Seven Mile Beach, ultimately seeking to hire 300 staff ahead of its opening in November 2016.

Mike Bell, who built the Grand Harbour shopping and residential development, died in the U.S. this week. He was 51.

Having just refinanced nearly US$37 million in debt held over from previous government administrations, the Cayman Islands Development Bank is back in business.

U.S.-based hotelier Marriott International announced Monday that it has agreed to buy Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. for $12.2 billion in cash and stock. The acquisition will create the worlds largest hotel company, which will include three Cayman Islands hotels: the Marriott Grand Cayman Beach Resort, The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman and the Westin Grand Cayman.

The Caribbean is gradually recovering from the economic downturn of the past few years, principally because the regions tourism market, the greatest source of income to many Caribbean countries, lies in the main, in North America.