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Winners of MOT on-line sweepstakes visit GB
The Ministry of Tourism wrapped up their ultimate 'Escape from Everyday Life' on-line sweepstakes when they welcomed two American winners at the domestic section of the Grand Bahama Internation-al Airport yesterday afternoon.The sweepstakes, an actively engaging on-line campaign implemented by the Ministry of Tourism for consumers, began on April 15, 2006 and ended a month later. Entrants were invited to submit a story of 50 words or less about why they should escape everyday life and come to The Bahamas and the winner would have their story posted on www.Bahamas.com.
After over 140,000 entries from people all over the world, the winner was randomly drawn by executives of the Grand Bahama Tourism Board.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Murano of New York were selected among thousands of entries.
Rumors and speculation Tuesday, July 11, 2006
The Khaled Mish'al press conference yesterday in Damascus, where the secretary general of the Hamas politburo essentially outlined the framework for a deal with Israel, leaving the details, as he said, to the 'mujahadin' who captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, has only intensified the speculation about backroom dealings between Israel and the Hamas. Mediators and would be mediators now include the Egyptians, Saudis, Turks, Russians, French, Finns (!), the Japanese - with outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi arriving tomorrow for stops in Jerusalem and Ramallah, and now, an American team of Deputy National Security Adviser Elliot Abrams and Assistant Secretary of State David Welch is due here, ostensibly to try to restart talks between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
FIBA: USA - Men's U18 team opens with dominating 111-64 win
/noticias.info/ SAN ANTONIO (FIBA Americas U18 Championship) - Showing athleticism on both ends of the court right from the start of their game versus Uruguay (0-1), Jerryd Bayless (St. Mary's H.S. / Phoenix, Ariz.) and Michael Beasley (Oak Hill Academy, Va. / Frederick, Md.) scored 17 points each and the host USA Men's U18 Team (1-0) sprinted ahead early and ran on to a commanding 111-64 victory over Uruguay (0-1) Wednesday night in its debut at the 2006 FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Men at Bill Greehy Arena, St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. The USA is off Thursday and wraps up its preliminary play Friday against Brazil in a 7 p.m. (CDT) game.In other action Wednesday, Argentina (1-0) romped past the Bahamas (0-1) 99-59, while Canada (1-0) handled Puerto Rico (0-1) 90-73.
Bahamas third overall at regional swim event
With one of the smallest contingents entered in the XVI Caribbean Islands Swim Championhips The Bahamas placed third overall at the end of the competition. Host country and overall winner Puerto Rico had a team of about 100, while second place finisher Trinidad and Tobago, had some 50 members.Our biggest regional sporting rival Jamaica finished in sixth place.
As expected, Women's 18 and Over swim sensations Nikia Deveaux and Alana Dillette came through for The Bahamas.
Deveaux, the first Bahamian woman to qualify for the Olympics in swimming, won the girls 18 and Over 100 metre freestyle event, with Dillette placing second in that event.
Deveaux also won gold in the 50 metre freestyle. Dillette won gold in the girls 18 and Over 200m individual medley, and in the 400m individual medley.
Close calls put public at risk
Across the country, cargo planes have crashed on golf courses, by an electric plant, in a lake at the foot of high-rise condos, in driveways and in the middle of bustling residential communities.On a freezing, snowy Wednesday three weeks before Christmas 2002, a 1974 Cessna 210L came down on a northern Arkansas neighborhood just before dinnertime.
"I ran outside, and pieces of airplane were falling down all around the house,'' said Danny Saunier, a fiberglass assembler who was sitting in his living room when he heard the boom. "The entire wing fell into a tree in my neighbor's backyard, maybe 50 feet from me. ... You could smell the airline fuel all over. The pilot's headset, it was right beside my house.''
Somehow, a larger tragedy was averted that day in Harrison, about 140 miles upstate from Little Rock, when the pilot crashed while carrying canceled checks and other bank documents for Orlando, Fla.-based Flight Express Inc.
Starwood Vacation Ownership Announces Major Expansion Plans for the Westin St. John Resort & Villas
Starwood Vacation Ownership, a division of Starwood Hotels&Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT), today announced major expansion plans for the Westin St. John Resort&Villas in St. John, USVI. The new Bay Vista phase will include a total of 94 two and three bedroom villas overlooking the island and the picturesque Great Cruz Bay.Construction plans call for the conversion of 186 hotel rooms in seven buildings in the hillside section of the resort to become vacation ownership villas. Construction of the first phase includes 54 villas and will begin in July, 2006 with an expected occupancy in late 2007. The second phase of 40 villas will begin shortly thereafter. Sales of the new phase will also begin in July.
"This is an ambitious project based on the increasing demand of luxury vacation ownership resorts in the Caribbean.
Conflicting reports on buyer for Royal Oasis
Prime Minister Perry Christie's latest comment regarding a buyer for the Royal Oasis has taken a number of listeners by surprise.Last Wednesday, in his wrap up on the 2006/2007 Budget debate in the House of Assembly, the nation's chief executive revealed that there were two potential buyers for the distressed resort property in Grand Bahama.
His remarks came just one week after he announced on June 2 there was a buyer for the resort, when he presented the 2006/2007 Budget.
Prime Minister Christie did not give the name of the buyer, but said then that government representatives were closing a meeting in New York.
"And at that meeting, Lehman Brothers (the financier of Driftwood Freeport Ltd., which owns Royal Oasis) and the government have agreed to a purchaser for the Royal Oasis," he said.