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NBA players invade Nassau on business
Capitalising on the attention sports figures tend to generate, the Ministry of Tourism hosted this year's annual NBA & WNBA Players Association Conference this past weekend at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island.Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe says that his ministry is looking forward to a long term relationship with the NBA & WNBA. "We hope that you all enjoy your visit here so much that the NBA Players Association would want to host a conference every year here in The Bahamas," Wilchcombe joked.
He also said that Tourism, along with the Ministry of Sports, will be working together to ensure that facilities are in place in order to host high profile sporting events here in The Bahamas.
A number of NBA players were at Sunday's conference in the Crown Ballroom of the Atlantis Resort.
Monster marlin shows recovery on Gulf Coast
BILOXI Tournament director Bobby Carter saw the symbolism of the 666-pound blue marlin brought to the scales Friday at the 10th annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic. Not only was it symbolic of the "devilish" time he had putting this event together in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but also of survival and recovery. "More important to me is that it symbolized that while Katrina may have knocked us (the Coast) down, she didn't knock us out," said Carter, director of VIP Services at the sponsoring Isle of Capri Casino in Biloxi. "When they put that first fish up there Friday, and it was that big blue marlin, it meant an awful lot." In the days after Katrina's Aug. 29th landfall, Carter never thought there'd be a 2006 tournament, at least not here. TIME TO IMPROVISE "Really, I thought our chances were zero," he said.Officials tackle youth drug abuse
The Bahamas National Drug Council (BNDC) has teamed up with the United Nations and various government ministries to combat child drug abuse in The Bahamas.In 2000, The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) designated June 26 as a day to recognise the adverse effects of drug abuse and illicit trafficking around the world. The BNDC has partnered with other agencies to provide training programmes that are geared toward steering school-aged children away from illicit drugs.
"We are going to highlight this international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking, in conjunction with a project the BNDC has called 'the creation of drug-free schools. So we have partnered with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Sports, as well as Social Services.
Local girls gear up for softball tourney
Teams from Grand Bahama and New Providence will clash with other Caribbean clubs as they prepare to play in the upcoming PONY Baseball/Softball Caribbean Girls 19 and Under tournament.Play starts next Thursday, June 29, continuing through July 2, to be played simultaneously in St. Maarten and Anguilla.
Tournament organisers are expecting participation from other islands such as Aruba, St. Croix, Saba, St. Eustatius, Dominican Republic, Anguilla and St. Martin. Panama is also expected to join in the action, along with a team from the PONY US East Zone, and a team from the St. Maarten Softball Association.
Back home both Bahamian teams are facing some difficulties. According to Yvonne Lockhart, organiser of the Grand Bahama team, three players have been cut from their squad due to lack of funding.
Malaria Risk Reported on One of the Bahamas
Hurricanes aren't the only thing vacationers have to worry about this summer. After a malaria outbreak last month on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas, travelers are being advised to take precautions against the mosquito-borne threat. At least 16 people have tested positive for the potentially fatal disease since the first case was reported early last month, according to an update issued by the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, which is maintaining close contact with the Bahamas Ministry of Health regarding the outbreak. Most of the people who were infected were Bahamas residents; one was a United States citizen who traveled there in May. The Bahamas has responded with intense surveillance and mosquito control measures on Great Exuma, above, including repeated spraying of the airport area.
Rains bring end to forest fire threat
Emergency operations centres set up in La Ronge, Beauval and Prince Albert to coordinate evacuations last week from Beauval, Grandmother's Bay, Stanley Mission, Sucker River, Missinipe, Wadin Bay and Hall Lake were in the process of shutting down after the last outstanding evacuation orders for Nemeiben Bay and English Bay were lifted."The majority of (evacuees) returned home last night, and there are a few who were returning this morning," Prince Albert Grand Council emergency and protective services commissioner Richard Kent said Monday. "I think there were under 10 that we had left to get home, and those were some people with health risks that we had to transport in special vehicles."
Highway 102 from the La Ronge airport to McLennan Lake and Highway 915, which provides access to Stanley Mission, Nemeiben, English Bay, Wadin Bay and Grandmother's Bay, were both reopened -- with warnings against unnecessary public travel.