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A bristled pink snout protrudes from the surface and two white tusks create bow waves as the creature ploughs its way past. Choking on the salt water in my snorkel, I watch as a squat, muscled body the size and shape of a baby hippo emerges from the briny and sets about snuffling a huge hole in the beach. It flops into this new sand home and promptly falls asleep, occasionally snorting and whisking the hot, afternoon air with a curly tail.Now, swimming in a tropical sea with a wild boar should be a surreal experience. Instead it feels perfectly in context. After all, I began today's sojourn on Exuma Cay by tickling a sting ray's tummy – like running your fingers along a wet chamois leather – before being introduced to the local gang. This involved lying in the sand with my snorkeled face in two feet of bath-warm water as, yards away, half a dozen four-feet-long reef sharks tore chunks of bloody flesh from a hapless fish.
'Choo Choo' ready for CABOFE title fight
Jermaine 'Choo Choo' Mackey has come a long way from a budding amateur boxer to being known as one of the best up-and-coming young professionals in the Caribbean.With a flawless 10-0 record, The Bahamas' Super Middleweight Champion is now set to go after the World Boxing Council's Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) Title. Standing in his way is the pride of Barbados, Marcus 'Marvelous' Thomas, and with the fight set for July 28 at the Radisson Cable Beach Resort, Mackey said that he is more than up to the challenge.
"It is a pleasure to fight for the WBC title. I would love to make my record 11-0 and then from there go on to fight for the British Commonwealth title and eventually winning a world title. I am doing everything, and I am in tip-top shape. I am getting ready for this fight and I am hungry," said Mackey.
High School Basketball: Holloway accepts Alabama job, then resigns ...
In the end, Joe Holloway decided Liberty High School was where he needed to be.Holloway resigned as the head girls basketball coach at Class 4A Florence Central High School in Alabama on Thursday - one week after accepting the position pending he officially retired and received the state's required teaching certification.
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Support for OPBAT
United States Ambassador to The Bahamas John Rood had "fruitful" discussions with Bahamian and US officials during his two-week trip to Washington to reinforce the importance of the US/Bahamas counter narcotics partnership, said the US Embassy.Ambassador Rood also discussed the US pre-clearance facility in Freeport, Grand Bahama and the common efforts by The Bahamas and the US to combat illegal migration.
The ambassador was in Miami for other meetings, but then flew out to Washington to deal with the pressing OPBAT issue, along with other areas of concern such as the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, pre-clearance and FAA co-operation.
According to a statement released by the US Embassy, Ambassador Rood was able to share these fruitful discussions with Bahamian Ambassador to the US Joshua Sears, when he discussed the importance of the US maintaining the level of funding to support OBPAT.
Match went on forever
WIMBLEDON, England - After two days of tennis, Daniel Nestor and Mark Knowles just wanted their Wimbledon doubles quarter- final match against Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry to be over - one way or another. "It got to the point where (you're thinking), 'Can we arm-wrestle? Or can we do something else just to end this? Play 2-on-2 hoops or something?"' Knowles said Wednesday. "We thought we'd been in every position possible, but we'd never been in this situation before." Nor had anyone else. Knowles of the Bahamas and Nestor of Canada beat Aspelin of Sweden and Perry of Australia 5-7, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 23-21 in 6 hours, 9 minutes, making it the longest singles or doubles match by time in Wimbledon history - and the longest doubles match at any Grand Slam tournament. The fifth set alone lasted more than 3 hours, and the match was played over two days; it was suspended by darkness Tuesday night with the fifth set tied 11-11.EMBASSY LISTINGS
Venezuela's Independence Day is today, commemorating the country's independence from Spain in 1811. The embassy is hosting an invitation-only reception this evening to celebrate. Contact the embassy (613-235-5151).Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa Museum of Civilization, 100 rue Laurier, Gatineau, Quebec. (819- 776-7000; www.civilization.ca). 10 a.m.; 12 p.m.; 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Through Sept. 8. $9.50; $8 students and seniors. $7 children. Take an adventure across five climate zones up to Africa's highest peak. Witness the courage of a team of five climbers and their African guide as they explore the region's fragile ecosystem and natural history. Dir. David Breashears. USA, 2002. In English.
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The Art of Calligraphy Museum of Civilization, 100 rue Laurier, Gatineau, Quebec.
The fight for OPBAT
Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos is crucial to the war on drugs from South America through The Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands to the United States. That is not in dispute as everyone can attest to the tremendous difference it has made in detecting and helping to capture drug smugglers since its inception in 1982.The operation, which combines personnel from the US Army, Coast Guard, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Royal Bahamas Police Force, is helicopter-oriented with Coast Guard and Army HH60 aircraft, manned by DEA and Bahamian law enforcement agents, to interdict drug smugglers using The Bahamas as a transit zone.
The problem now if it can be termed that is that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wants to concentrate the Army's equipment on the war on terror in the Middle East, which means moving them away from the OPBAT operation.
News in Brief
The city of Aspen, in conjunction with the Roaring Fork Transit Agency, has suspended fares between the Brush Creek Park and Ride and the city through Labor Day. Fares are normally $2 each way. Buses leave Brush Creek on the hour and the half-hour. Buses leave Rubey Park at a quarter past and quarter before the hour. For more information, visit www.rfta.com or call 925-8484.Process under way to name Craven's successor
The successor to late 9th Judicial District Chief Judge T. Peter Craven could be named by the first week in August.
Monday was the application deadline for the district judge's chair vacant since June following Craven's death. Judge Tom Ossola is filling in.
After Craven died, a nominating commission was formed to select nominees for appointment to the position.