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Final tribute for 'Sir Coaks'
The College of The Bahamas should erect a suitable memorial to late former Member of Parliament Livingstone Coakley for the key role he played in the creation of COB, Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday.Mr Christie made the suggestion as he paid tribute to the former Minister of Education during Mr Coakley's official state funeral service at Christ Church Cathedral.
"Hopefully the college will find it fitting some early date in the future to erect some suitable memorial to the central role that Mr. Coakley played in the creation and formative period of the College of the Bahamas," Mr Christie said. "He moved resolutely to develop and expand secondary education in The Bahamas...in Abaco, Exuma, Eleuthera, Andros and Cat Island."
Mr Christie was adamant that generations young and old must learn of the life and times of the former minister, as he was one of three "major figures in the building of the modern Bahamas, [and one of] three lions of a peaceful revolution who have been called to their eternal rest."
Though members from both sides of the political arena came to pay their respects, Mr Christie said that a piece of the past has passed without anyone really taking the time to realise it.
PM: Nassau Redevelopment A Priority
Noting the importance of making the much talked about downtown redevelopment reality, Prime Minister Perry Christie told The Bahama Journal on Saturday night that he expects the Bay Street shipping port to be relocated to southwestern New Providence by early 2007. .US passport regime may cripple tourism
Guests and crew of Royal Caribbean's 'Freedom of the Seas', which made its inaugural visit to Montego Bay, St. James, recently, as part of its maiden voyage, are entertained during the cruise ship's short stop in the second city. - NOEL THOMPSON/FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHERTHE CARIBBEAN, the world's most tourism-dependent region, has again warned that it could lose up to US$2.6 billion annually, and nearly 200,000 jobs, when America imposes its new passport regime for citizens travelling abroad.
The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), however, says the impact will be worse if the region is exempt from a proposed extension of the January 2007 date for implementing the regime.
There are now suggestions for a June 2009 introduction of the scheme but air travellers from the Caribbean would, apparently, not be covered by this delay, raising fears that it would shift business further away from hotels to cruise liners.
End Is Near For Blighted Central Park Village
TAMPA - The unease permeates from the narrow, winding alleyways that serve as streets, pushing drivers into the heart of a maze.The cinderblock backyard walls hide gardens of poverty - patches of dying grass, strewn with trash. Laundry lines snake across the horizon like dead branches from concrete trees. Young men hang out on front steps, their eyes narrowing when a stranger rolls past.
Central Park Village, one of Tampa's oldest and largest public housing complexes, has earned its reputation as a tough neighborhood.
It is a throwback to the perception of public housing of years past. Only here, it remains a reality.
It wasn't always this way, and soon it will be no more.
The residents, 1,300-plus, are moving, the first wave set to leave early next month.
Raising Pirates' Mast on Bahamian Shores
American consumers, who form the basis of The Bahamas' core tourism market, are doing anything from flipping magazine pages, to pumping gas, to picking up newspapers and popping M&Ms, when suddenly they find themselves gazing at beckoning photos of a sandy paradise awash in the golden smile of an endless sun, just hours or minutes away from home.The Bahamas' offerings haven't changed. The sea, sun and sand sparkle brilliantly as they patiently await the country's visitors; but the Ministry of Tourism and its Public Relations firm, Weber Shandwick, have pole-vaulted over the traditional, in new ways by which they seek to sell these natural goodies to an ever-expanding market.
The Ministry has clutched the hands of new marketing partners with mighty billboards in the U.S.
For college-bound students, community service is essential
Colleges expect potential students to lend a helping hand in the community. Colleges want to see students involved, said Doug Smith, regional director of College Prospects of America, a national firm that helps student athletes find colleges.Community service shows that teens are "not self-centered ... and also sends a strong message to colleges," said Smith, who is based in San Antonio.
Smith said he will not consider helping a student athlete who has fewer than five school or community activities outside of sports. Instead, he said, he sends the student out to get more involved.
Sara Judith Guerra, 19, a 2004 graduate of Edison High School, said she volunteered about 600 hours throughout her high school years. Now, that community service is paying for her college.
EXPEDITION FOR SCI FI CHANNEL'S 'QUEST FOR ATLANTIS: STARTLING NEW ...
NEW YORK--July 6, 2006--SCI FI Channel unearthed compelling evidence of an ancient and previously unknown maritime culture in the Bahamas while conducting research for its July 7 special 'Quest For Atlantis: Startling New Secrets.' SCI FI commissioned an expedition to the famed "Bimini Road" off the coast of Bimini Island, a place believed to hold evidence confirming the existence of the mythical city of Atlantis. The artifacts found there call into question the very truths that encompass one of mankind's greatest mysteries. "There was not, supposedly, anyone in the Bahamas at that time [when the artifacts were believed to be in use]," says Dr. Greg Little, an Atlantis expert who led the expedition for the Channel, "there's an unknown maritime culture there." Who these ancient mariners were and where they came from remains a mystery.