The Caribbean Hotel Association outgoing president, Royston Hopkin, praised the CHA staff for putting together what he called the best program in years. “Our only problem was that there was not enough places in many of the workshops and seminars,” he noted. John Jefferies takes over as CHA president and says he will dedicate the next two years and his administration to communications. Other officers for the 1996-98 term are: Ed Malone, Aruba, 1st VP; Ralph Taylor, Barbados, 2nd VP; Peter Rousseau, Jamaica, 3rd VP; Gabriel Escalante, Cancun, 4th VP; Leo Garbutt, Grenada, 5th VP; Rafael Blanco Canto, Dominican Republic, Treasurer.