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Bargnani is NBA's No. 1 choice
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Andrea Bargnani of Italy became the first European player to be No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft when he was chosen by the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday.The 20-year-old Bargnani, a 7-foot (2.13m) shooting forward, helped Benetton Treviso win a championship this month in Italy.
"It's an incredible feeling," Bargnani said. "I feel so excited, so proud to represent my country. It's an incredible sensation, I cannot describe in words. It's incredible."
Bargnani, whose nickname is "Il Mago" or "The Magician," said most Italians were focused on the World Cup but that his selection would get noticed back home.
"Tomorrow, I hope there's a little picture," he said.
The Raptors have paid a lot of attention to evaluating Bargnani and recently hired his general manager at Benetton, Maurizio Gherardini, to serve as assistant to Toronto president and general manager Bryan Colangelo.
Americans travelling to Great Exuma advised to take treatment for ...
Americans travelling to Great Exuma will be advised by the Centres for Disease Control in the United States to take preventative treatments in light of the recent malaria outbreak.The disclosure was made last night by the Ministry of Health during one of their daily updates. So far, therehave been 16 confirmed cases of malaria.
Since the initial case of malaria came to the forefront a week ago, the Ministry of Health has also been in communication with the Pan American Health (PAHO) in Washington and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Both organisations have provided support for surveillance efforts to local health officials. "While they have agreed not to issue a travel alert for The Bahamas, the CDC intends to advise Americans coming to Great Exuma to take prophylactic choroquine as a preventative measure," the release revealed.
Career & Education
MIRIAM Jacobs has been appointed business development executive of Caribbeanjobs.com's new office in Trinidad and Tobago. Jacobs will spearhead the online recruitment site company's expansion in that territory and the rest of the eastern Caribbean region. She will have direct responsibility for business development and account management throughout those islands. The new business development executive formerly worked as chief executive officer, marketing consultant and assistant registrar with several companies including CP Marketing of Barbados, Marketing Managers & Associates, University of West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Education, College of the Bahamas and Kairi Consultants Limited. "Ms Jacobs is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and we are delighted that she is joining our team," the agency said in a press release.Why not two pipelines?
Government has been vacillating for more than two years on whether or not to grant permission for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pipeline to be constructed from The Bahamas to Florida. We have been promised on more than one occasion within the past two years that a decision would be forthcoming shortly.That's the promise Prime Minister Perry Christie made more than a year ago when as a special guest on Island 102.9 FM talk show, Parliament Street told the listening audience that after more than two years of negotiations, his cabinet was satisfied that the LNG pipeline that the Virginia-based AES Corporation was proposing to build from Ocean Cay, off Bimini, to Dania Beach, Florida was environmentally safe. The then Trade and Industry Minister, Leslie Miller, around the same time and on several subsequent occasions also strongly suggested that the government would make its decision known "shortly."
Meanwhile, whatever problems there are that have made The Bahamas so indecisive on this issue apparently are not shared by federal regulators in the United States, who last week approved permits for the development and construction of five new or expanded U.S.