Following Hurricane Odile this past September, The Resort at Pedregal opened this past Saturday, and its 66 rooms and suites, along with 22 villas, are now open and accepting reservations.

Sandals has welcomed its first guests in Barbados following a wide-ranging $65 million renovation project. The project, at the site of the former Couples Barbados, is located in Christ Church on the island’s South Coast. The Dover-area property has 10 restaurants including an Indian restaurant.

A $200 million condominium project has broken ground in Grand Cayman. The Gran Palazzo project, the brainchild of Caymanian developer Lewis Ebanks, is located on North Sound at Crystal Harbour, next to the North Sound Golf Club.

At a time when Meliá Hotels International is celebrating a quarter century of successful operations in Cuba, the company plans to further beef up its investment on the island nation, said Meliá Hotels International PR and Communications chief Elvira Ameijeiras on Cuban television.