Weekly News Person of the Year 2025: Lyndon Gardiner: ‘Columbus of the Caribbean’

How a youngster from Bottle Creek founded the region’s largest privately-owned airline network Dreams don’t always have riches in their crosshairs. Some have wings. Lyndon Gardiner’s was conceptualised 40 years ago amid the sun-speckled streets of sleepy Grand Turk as the Cold War began to thaw and the world, at least here, felt like a