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Ready, set, go! GB junior athletes ready for Junior CAC ...
Nivea Smith and Ryan Penn will lead the Grand Bahama contingent of the junior athletes that are representing The Bahamas at the Junior CAC Championships next week in Trinidad and Tobago.Smith and Penn will be joined by Shelleyka Rolle, Carlene Johnson, Raymond Higgs, Anjoun Armaly, Darion Duncombe, Tradecio Davis, Juan Lewis, Charles Williams and Johnaton Davis.
Travelling with the team will be assistant coach Caudel McNab and chaperone Angela Rolle.
"This is a very disciplined group and they are expected to do well," said McNab yesterday during a press briefing at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex.
"We expect them to perform to the best of their ability and to stay healthy," added McNab, who noted that usually this is one of the major concerns when athletes travel.
American Eagle to link DFW, Harrisburg
The emergence of regional jets in recent years has enabled network carriers to reach out to all sorts of smaller cities, affording fliers there great connection opportunities. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (MDT) is a case in point.American Eagle plans to launch once-daily nonstop service from American Airlines' Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) megahub to Pennsylvania's capital city on September 6. A 70-seat Canadair Regional Jet will make the run. From DFW, travelers can connect to cities throughout the south and southwest as well as to an array of American international flights.
.Marathon men in historic win
LONDON: Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor won the longest match in Wimbledon history yesterday when they beat Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry in a men's doubles quarter-final clash which lasted six hours and nine minutes.The number three seeds won 5-7, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 23-21 in a match that had started on Tuesday afternoon but had been suspended because of poor light at 11-11 in the final set.
The previous longest match at Wimbledon was a men's second round singles clash between Americans Greg Holmes and Todd Witsken in 1989 which lasted five hours and 28 minutes.
Knowles, from the Bahamas, and Canadian Nestor, will face Bob and Mike Bryan in the semi-finals.
"It would have been toiugh had we lost," said Nestor after a tie in which he and his partner saved six match points.
Setback for three-party political system
The attempt at third party politics in The Bahamas probably died yesterday, when The Coalition for Democratic Reform (CDR) announced at a news conference held at The Cable Beach Resort & Casino that with immediate effect, it was disbanding and joining forces with the Free National Movement (FNM). The announcement was made by Charles Maynard who was joined at the news conference by the Chairman of the FNM, Desmond Bannister and all his officers.Democratic systems thrive on all being able to have a voice and in principle, when we have many political parties existing, this should translate into a broad spectrum of views being aired.
Why did the CDR come into existence? In my opinion, the only reason why the CDR was formed was because Dr Bernard Nottage was disgruntled at the Progressive Liberal Party's (PLP) hierarchy, in that he was not made the leader and he sought a means to have a platform; thus, the CDR was born.