Three local women take up senior jobs at DoT
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism has hired three Caymanian women to work in various management positions. Marzeta Bodden has been appointed as the deputy director for Tourism Product Development, Lauren Brook as the manager for Global Public Relations Services, and Tristaca Ebanks as manager of National Promotions and Events.
Tourism Director Rosa Harris said the DoT was pleased to welcome three experienced and talented Caymanian women to the team.
“They have all transitioned seamlessly into their roles, and I look forward to seeing how their ideas and perspectives advance the department’s mandate,” she said. “The team is empowered to transform post-COVID the islands’ product offerings, marketing and promotional activity to deliver on quality experiences and business development expansion.”
Bodden has 20 years of work experience spanning aviation, tourism, education and financial services, having held positions in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining the DoT, she provided policy and communications support to the premier, Cabinet and senior leaders in the Cayman Islands Government throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including the critical early response phase. She will be responsible for a unit focused on the quality of the Cayman Islands experience as well as developing a diverse range of sustainable tourism products.
Brooks has more than ten years of experience in public relations, internal communications and business development in the Cayman Islands, the UK and Canada. Prior to joining the DoT, she was employed as a business development and communications specialist by a prominent offshore law firm. She has also worked as PR manager for a prominent local real estate developer, and as a communications manager for a large regional insurance company. She will be responsible for the department’s global public relations strategy, including media relations, local and international communications, brand management and the department’s international public relations agencies and visiting journalists.
Bringing 15 years of experience in the events field and the CIG, Ebanks previously worked as a special events coordinator and FOI manager with the Ministry of Investment, Innovation and Social Development. She also worked as a personal assistant to the chief officer at the Ministry of Employment and Border Control and the personal assistant to the deputy governor. She received the Cayman Islands Government Employee of the Year Award in 2017 and Certificate Badge of Honour for her contributions to the Cayman Islands community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ebanks is now responsible for the DoT’s national marketing, including local and community sponsorship, special events, domestic advertising and collateral, the travel trade familiarisation programme and leading the Latin America strategy for the department.
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I’m amazed that such an announcement would get anything but “thumbs up” responses. Why would anyone be against qualified Caymanian women being selected for senior roles within our Department of Tourism? Some people just don’t want to see others succeed, and that’s unfortunate. Congratulations, ladies.
Congrats to all three well-accomplished Caymanian women. about time we invest in our own. Well done Lauren!
DoT might ask Worc and Public Health Department to be extra vigilant about front facing staff that continue to report to work feverish, sick and coughing in 2023, perhaps because their permit-holding employers aren’t giving them their required paid sick leave. A zero tolerance reporting hotline would be a good idea. Say what you will about the perceived severity of the various known illnesses circulating, but there is no acceptable reason for really sick people to working shifts while visibly and audibly unwell. Mask or not. Very off-putting. We’ve been repelled from 4-5 businesses recently because of how casually supervisors are taking their obligations to the public. It’s gone too far the other way.
..feverish, sick and coughing …? If true, this is happening in Cayman only. I’d ask another question: Why?
To those 99 thumbs down to this post imagine there was no cayman to enable your negativity. Imagine that you wake up in a land where there is utter devastation a land not Cayman.?What you gonna do when they come for you.
West Bay Road, the main artery of the Hotel Tourism Zone, is a 2 star thoroughfare. It needs to be safer. Missing are the much hyped police patrols, a sidewalk on the east side of the street (the one with pedestrian lighting), a southbound bike lane, and taxi/bus pullout areas. Fix this easy stuff please.
Congrats to all. “Way to go!”, Marzeta.
Well done all! We continue to uplift empower and support our own and one of the many reasons why the Caymanian product is unquestionably the best in the world…because of our people. Keep going upward and onward ladies
Congratulations to these phenomenal young Caymanian women! So proud to see female representation in our tourism industry and look forward to the great accomplishments ahead
I hope they will seek advice from people who have been in tourism, especially Cruise tourism. Some of us have more then 50 years.
congrats to all and hopefully your contributions will enhance our present D.O.T.section of government.
Whatever happened to equality? Not seeing any men in the picture.
What you don’t see is that most directors and managers at DOT and generally in gov are men so this picture as you put it actually helps balance diversity.
it don’t work like that!
Congrats to all. Well-done, Marzeta.
Congratulations ladies! I am truly happy to see more Caymanians being acknowledged and taking positions that are too often given to foreigners just because they are who they are (read between the lines) and who they know.
I hope more Caymanians continue to invest in themselves and keep climbing the ladder.
Well done!
Congratulations to the three . Make us proud.