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Local girls gear up for softball tourney
Teams from Grand Bahama and New Providence will clash with other Caribbean clubs as they prepare to play in the upcoming PONY Baseball/Softball Caribbean Girls 19 and Under tournament.Play starts next Thursday, June 29, continuing through July 2, to be played simultaneously in St. Maarten and Anguilla.
Tournament organisers are expecting participation from other islands such as Aruba, St. Croix, Saba, St. Eustatius, Dominican Republic, Anguilla and St. Martin. Panama is also expected to join in the action, along with a team from the PONY US East Zone, and a team from the St. Maarten Softball Association.
Back home both Bahamian teams are facing some difficulties. According to Yvonne Lockhart, organiser of the Grand Bahama team, three players have been cut from their squad due to lack of funding.
More traveling Americans means fewer blood donors
Blood banks turn away up to 150,000 would-be donors each year on the slight chance they picked up malaria while traveling to any of dozens of countries.At the same time, concern is growing that a second parasitic infection from abroad - the Chagas disease rampant in parts of Latin America - increasingly threatens donated blood.
Both infections are rare here, but there's no way to test donated blood for either one. Now blood banks are pushing for better safeguards that also could help stretch the nation's tight supply.
First up, malaria: Next week, the Food and Drug Administration opens debate on how to balance the need for blood with Americans' increasing travel to malaria hot spots, and to urge manufacturers to develop a malaria test to solve the problem.
ANGOSTURA AROMATIC BITTERS
The world famous product which is produced in the small island of Trinidad, Angostura aromatic bitters, is sponsoring this years CHIC/Taste of the Caribbean 2006 competition being held in Miami Florida from June 25th to June 28th.The product will be used in all preparation of food by the participating chefs and in the cocktails made by the competing bartenders. A special award will also be granted for the best use of bitters by one of the 15 culinary teams that will be participating in the event. The competing countries are Anguilla National, Anguilla and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Curacao, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St Lucia, St Martin, Suriname, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago and US Virgin Islands. Angostura aromatic bitters was created in 1824 by a German doctor who lived in Venezuela.