Jinnie’s Story

The last full day of the cruise was a sea day as the ship chugged the 150 miles from Martinique to Barbados very slowly. The twins spent the morning by the pool with everyone else, [more…]

Izzy recovered from her surprise at the proposal of marriage very quickly, and replied, “Yes, of course.” The rest of the table burst into cheers, which quickly turned to applause, and the surrounding tables, seeing [more…]

Boxing Day was Sint Maarten, a curious, small island, half of which was Dutch, and the other half was French and called Saint Martin. But the Britannia put into Philipsburg, which was on the Dutch [more…]

The next day was not only another perfect Caribbean day, but it was Christmas Eve, and the twins knew from experience that Father Christmas arrived on board in the late afternoon. So, in the planning [more…]

After dinner, the twins begged Jinnie to let them stay up for the sail-away from Barbados. As the sailing time was set for 20:00 and it was nearly 19:30 when they finished their meal, Jinnie [more…]

Jinnie was generally happy with the overall performance of TT SuperBurger (Group) Limited; all the divisions were trading profitably, and the various development plans were all progressing well, with one exception. The one fly in [more…]

Jinnie looked around the hotel breakfast room and spotted Brian and Belinda reading their breakfast menus. She headed across the room and asked, “Do you mind if I join you?” Belinda looked up and said, [more…]

Jack Baker called the first official board meeting of Bearcat Foods Inc. to order and, glancing round the table, said, “Good afternoon, people. The first item on the agenda is the election of a Chairman, [more…]

Dame Jinnie De Luca strolled across the departure hall at Heathrow Terminal 5, looking for the check-in desk for her BA flight to Montreal. She was flying to Ottawa to attend her first board meeting [more…]