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Article: Jamaica and Cayman: some similarities...and a whole lot of differences
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- Caribbean Today
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- July 31, 2005
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Gregory, Maire
Caribbean Today
07-31-2005
Lionel Reid, the former president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist
Association, is happy to be back in Jamaica after a stint in Grand Cayman
managing hotels for Ernie Smatt.
The two are Jamaican, so homecoming is sweet.
Reid ran Eton Hall and Club Jamaica and, through his management company,
had other tourism interests in the Ocho Rips area. Now together at Shaw
Park Beach Hotel and Suites, where Smatt is chairman of the company, Reid,
the managing director, they are enthusiastic about the rejuvenation of one
of Jamaica's most gracious and prestigious hotels.
Comparisons between Jamaica and Grand Cayman are not easy as the products
are so different. Ernie ...