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Riu Hotels & Resorts is pleased to announce its new partnership with Reggae Sunsplash, the world's largest and most
The four-day festival, returning to Jamaica, after a nine-year hiatus will feature many of the world's most popular and acclaimed reggae acts including UB40, Luciano and Morgan Heritage to mention a few. The event will take place on August 3-6, 2006 at Richmond Estate, St Ann, the parish where reggae legend Bob Marley was born and once lived and is now home to the museum honouring his life. RIU will play a prominent role in the festival, as Riu Ocho Rios will house many of the artistes and 150,000 visitors expected to attend this internationally renowned event. To accommodate demand and provide more information about this unique partnership, Riu will launch a special a website, www.riu.com/ochorios. On the site, interested guests can make reservations, learn more about the event and take part in an exclusive Reggae Trivia Contest.Unions give merchant banks a run for their money
GRAEME HODGE: Yeah, that's an interesting observation, because one of the problems that I think governments have faced in the last, perhaps decade, is that I think sometimes they've almost outsourced their brains.That's a real problem, isn't it, where you're signing up, you're signing up yourself, you're signing up your kids, you're signing up your kids' kids over multiple generations, you're signing them up for billions of dollars.
And if the suggestion is that governments have outsourced their brains and we must now rely on the expertise of banks, I think governments have got a bit of rebuilding to do, haven't they? And here's another reason why we should be seriously taking this National Infrastructure Finance Corporation idea on board.
STEPHEN LONG: The ALP will consider the plan as part of its National Infrastructure Inquiry.
TT junior golfers dethroned
PUERTO RICO dethroned Trinidad and Tobago for the Hank James Trophy as the overall champions of the 19th Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championships, at the Rio Mar Country Club, Puerto Rico yesterday. The hosts eased to victory with 160 points. Trinidad and Tobago, the 2004 and 2005 champs, were a distant second with 125.5 points.Bahamas placed third with 115 points, ahead of Jamaica, 106, Dominican Republic, 100.5, Barbados, 86, United States Virgin Islands, 45.5, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), 16, and Cayman Islands, 8.5.
Trinidad and Tobago claimed the top two places in the Girls 16-18 age group, with Martine De Gannes tallying a score of 240 for the Cesar Rivera Trophy, with compatriot Tracey Clarke next on 255 and Puerto Ricos Lydia Benitez third on 257.
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.
WNBA Announces Tuesday's Competitions
NEW YORK (JULY 8, 2006), - The 2006 WNBA All-Star festivities on Tuesday, July 11, will include two basketball competitions featuring select players who will compete against the clock and each other. The Dribble, Dish and Swish Challenge and the Three-Point Shoot Out will take place prior to the East and West All-Star Practices at Madison Square Garden. The competitions begin at 1:30 p.m. and are open to the public free of charge. In the Dribble, Dish and Swish Challenge, four players will compete in a two-round, timed "obstacle course" that consists of dribbling, passing and shooting stations. Sue Bird, the winner of the event in 2005, will defend her title against challengers Deanna Nolan, Seimone Augustus and Cappie Pondexter. All players must observe basic ball-handling rules throughout the course and the two players with the fastest times from the first round will advance to a final head to head competition to determine the champion.