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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.
Bermuda Adds New Flavor to Seabourn Food & Wine Fest
The ultra luxury Seabourn Pride will host its fourth annual Great American Food & Wine Festival this autumn as the intimate, all-suite ship sails from New England to the Caribbean. But this year, the recipe has been changed to include an overnight stay at Bermuda.The 12-day cruise departs October 29, 2006 from the picturesque fishing port of Gloucester, MA, just a short way from Boston's Logan International Airport via a complimentary Seabourn transfer. Aside from Bermuda, ports of call include Norfolk, VA, Charleston, SC, and Amelia Island and Port Canaveral, FL. The cruise ends in Nassau, Bahamas on November 10.
Along the way, guests will enjoy tastings, cooking demonstrations and signature dishes by renowned chef and cookbook author Paulette Mitchell, as well as specially-created culinary excursions in ports of call, wine tastings and culinary events on board.
School policing on the move in GB
Determined to prevent criminal activities in public schools, the northern Royal Bahamas Police Force school-based policing programme led by Inspector Robert Higgs, brought to light yesterday the alarming amount of illegal weapons confiscated from students.During a press conference at Police Headquarters, Inspector Higgs and a team of officers displayed to media personnel "potentially fatal" weapons and other articles confiscated from student at the three Government Schools and a few primary schools over the course of the school year.
Sine the programme has began wonderful strives has been made, Inspector Higgs explained. However, he added that there still is a lot of work to be completed.
Examining trends seen in the schools from the fall 2005 term to the spring 2006 term, Inspector Higgs said that during the fall semester, there was a decrease in weapons being carried.
$8m for new airport tower
Plans for the installation of a new control tower at The Grand Bahama International Airport are eportedly proceeding as scheduled. SolaCom Technologies, a Canadian-based company, te-amed up with an American engineering contractor to build the tower as well as a state-of-the-art communication system at an estimated cost of $8 million.SolaCom is the second Can-adian company this year, ent-ering into an agreement to upgrade airports in The Bahamas. A representative from the company told The Guardian that an announcement was made at the US Contract Tower Association meeting in Washington, DC on Monday, that plans for the tower installation were on schedule.
The Florida-based AJT and Associates, would be replacing the Control Tower cab (which houses the air traffic controllers) with a new one, and will also replace the Liberty-STAR Voice Commun-ication System (VCS) with a new one from SolaCom.
D-day on death row
Four inmates on death row at Her Majesty's Prison will get the chance to have their sentences reviewed today before Senior Justice of the Supreme Court Anita Allen.Senior Counsel in the Office of the Attorney General Gawain Ward last night confirmed that the death sentences of prison inmates Forrester Bowe, Robert Green, Ronald Simmons and Keith Jones will be opened and given a second look this morning.
Forrester Bowe was placed on death row for the shooting death of 20-year-old Dion Roach at an apartment complex in Freeport, Grand Bahama on October 23, 1992. Bowe was later sentenced to death on February 25, 1998. He has been in prison for the past eight years.
He appealed the conviction before the Court of Appeal where it was dismissed in April 1998.
All the world's a (sound) stage
Superman is America's storybook hero, which would make his hometown of Smallville just about the most American place on earth. But for "Superman Returns," filmmakers eschewed the wide-open plains of the Midwestern heartland, instead traveling thousands of miles to a tiny Australian town named Tamworth, 250 miles from Sydney. On 500 acres of open land, the crew created Superman's boyhood farm, complete with a new crop of corn. Hollywood has been doing this kind of filmic sleight of hand since Day 1, when D.W. Griffith shot his "Birth of a Nation" in the city's all-purpose back lot, the urban Griffith Park (not named for the director). These days, as movies have gotten more expensive, the practice has gone global. Producers in search of a French subway for a deodorant commercial found a look-alike substitute in Argentina, while a Miracle Whip ad turned a deserted Romanian gulag into a "wholesome" American prison.Surge on horizon
Mega investors are flocking to The Bahamas and Prime Minister Perry Christie is urging Bahamians to be a part of the predicted economic surge set to hit the nation. Addressing a packed audience at the CEO Network Conference's opening ceremonies yesterday, Mr. Christie said that all Bahamians should have an opportunity to share in the country's economic development."As we grow in our country there is an obligation that we ought to recognise and that obligation is that every single Bahamian is entitled to share in the resources of his or her country," said the prime minister.
He said it was beyond question that the economy of The Bahamas was on a "march and a rise that only a calamitous set of circumstances can interrupt, slow down or stop."
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