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Singapore's Sentosa seeks Monaco glitz
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Turning Singapore's southern island of Sentosa into Asia's glitziest address could be quite a challenge.The British colonial rulers used Sentosa as a fort, while the Japanese carried out massacres on its beaches during World War Two. After independence in 1965, Singapore turned the island into a much-ridiculed tourist site.
Now Sentosa -- about three times the area of Monaco -- is being developed to be Asia's answer to the French Riviera and a hang-out for the rich and famous.
Sentosa's development is part of Singapore's wider economic makeover. As manufacturers shift jobs to low-cost rivals such as China, the city-state of 4.4 million people will have to rely more on services such as private banking and tourism for growth.
Singapore is already Asia's leading private banking center, catering to wealthy Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesians and Indians.
Gimme 3 Days
Departing Miami January 5 on the Carnival Fascination, the cruise will feature up-close-and-personal live performances as well as a full-service casino, 24-hour room service, fine dining and more.The ship will stop in Nassau in the Bahamas before coming back to Miami January 8.
The list of performing bands includes Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special, Drivin N Cryin, Tishamingo, American Minor, Blackberry Smoke, Blue Dogs and more.
Cabins are available starting at $599. Full details can be found at gimmethreedays.com.
Skynyrd is touring through July with 3 Doors Down, and will follow up with headlining dates in August and September.
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Health officials allay fears of malaria in GB
Health officials are attempting to allay any fears of malaria in Grand Bahama while appealing to residents to rid their yards of all containers which serve as breeding grounds for mosquitoes.Chief Health Inspector Bertha McPhee said it is important to understand that malaria is not transmittable by human-to-human contact and can only be transmitted by someone who is an active carrier of the virus.
A mosquito must then bite the infected human and transmit it to another human, she revealed.
Chief Inspector McPhee stressed, however, that the key to controlling mosquito breeding is for residents to keep their yards clear.
"It's very important. We will do what we have to do and we'll do what we know that we need to do, but it is virtually impossible for us (with) four officers in the Vector Control Department to visit every premises on the island of Grand Bahama to ensure that those premises are maintained in such a manner not to encourage mosquito breeding," she said Tuesday.
Balancing act: Deciding who can donate blood
WASHINGTON - Blood banks turn away up to 150,000 would-be donors each year on the slight chance they picked up malaria while traveling to any of dozens of countries.At the same time, concern is growing that a second parasitic infection from abroad - the Chagas disease rampant in parts of Latin America - increasingly threatens donated blood.
Both infections are rare here, but there's no way to test donated blood for either one. Now blood banks are pushing for better safeguards that also could help stretch the nation's tight supply.
First up, malaria: This week, the Food and Drug Administration opens debate on how to balance the need for blood with Americans' increasing travel to malaria hot spots, and to urge manufacturers to develop a malaria test to solve the problem.
Eighteen students graduate from BTVI
An arduous road and an uphill battle has led to success for 18 dynamic students who graduated from the Bahamas Technical and Vocational (BTVI) in a grand ceremony yesterday at the Xanadu Beach Hotel.The procession of young men and women receiving pre-technology certificates, are also graduates of St. Georges High School, as they were part of a special integrated programme that allowed high school students to graduate through the institution.
Keynote speaker and Parliamentary Secretary Agatha Marcelle advised the graduates that the journey to success has only begun.
"This point is the beginning of great things in your life. I want to tell you that you never need be embarrassed about where you were, where you have come and where you are going," she said.
Hodder visits Freeport
Despite the recent cloud of controversy surrounding her appointment as the new president of College of The Bahamas (COB), Janyne Hodder is optimistic about the future direction of the country's premier tertiary institution, which she hopes will one day be called a university. Hodder was speaking at the Rotary Club of Freeport's regular weekly meeting at the Ruby Swiss Restaurant on Thursday, where she shared her vision for a new COB with Rotarians.Addressing the turmoil surrounding her appointment, the new COB president said that she understands that change, especially major change, will birth some disputation.
"I think that when there's a change in leadership in universities there's always a lot of debate," she said. "I think its normal that you would have a debate before hand."
Noting that Universities are places of debate and disagreements, Hodder said what she finds so amazing about them is that "generally once the decision is made it's over."
Hodder, a former vice-president of McGill University in Toronto, Canada, began her three-year contract at the college five days ago.
Key tips for hurricane season cruising
Year-round Caribbean cruising's on an upswing as lines ranging from Princess to Carnival are keeping some of their biggest and splashiest ships sailing in the region throughout summer and fall. And yet, aside from experiencing slightly steamier tropical weather than in winter months, cruising the Caribbean during the summer and fall otherwise comes with one pretty big caveat: Hurricane season can wreak havoc on your vacation. In 1998, Windjammer's Fantome, which deposited passengers safely on land before it sailed out to sea to avoid an off-the-charts violent hurricane, tragically lost its ship and crew. One year later, Carnival's Tropicale lost power as it was sailing out of the way of another storm (though no lives were lost). Disaster stories like these are the exception rather than the rule, but if you're planning a Caribbean cruise from June through November, it pays to be aware of the possibilities.