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Golfers looking to tee off at national champs
Local golfers are fine-tuning their games for this year's Bahamas Golf Federation Prime Minister's Cup Cham-pionships & National Ama-teur Championships.The two-in-one tournament will also serve as qualifiers for the Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships in August at the Caymanas Golf Course in Kingston, Jamaica. According to BGF President Agatha Delancey, although the national team has already been picked the BGF is still looking to fill a few open spots.
The BGF Nationals, which is a four-day event, is scheduled for July 7-10, at the Our Lucaya Golf Course & the Our Lucaya 'Reef' Golf Cou-rse in Freeport, Grand Baha-ma. "The winners from each category will automatically make the team that's traveling to Jamaica for the CAGC," Delancy informed.
The Prime Minister's Amat-eur Cup will be held over two days, July 9-10.
Your message high in the sky on a kite
Advertisers looking for a new venue to reach consumers as they head for the beach will be able to plaster their ads on kiteboarders sails starting this summer. The ad-laden sails skim and soar, drawing attention to their sponsors logo.To find out how to get your clients message gliding along the waterfront within view of consumers out having fun in the sun, read on.
This is one in a Media Life series on buying the new out-of-home venues. They appear weekly.
Fast Facts
What
Ads placed on kites that tow riders on wakeboards along beaches.
Who
Kite Billboard, headquartered in Largo, Fla.
How it works
Ads are printed on the entire surface of the kites, which tow riders across the water.
Shipowners urge for new chamber to boost Cyprus flag
Cypriot shipowners are calling for the establishment of a Chamber of Shipping as soon as possible in order to stop the drop in registrations under the Cyprus flag.Leading shipowners Charalambos Mylonas and Michalis Ioannides told a maritime conference on Monday that the Turkish embargo on Cyprus-flag ships was not the main reason for the islands registry losing some 1,000 vessels to other jurisdictions in the past six years.
Even getting Cyprus off the dreaded black list of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (Paris MoU) did not help, as Cyprus moved to the gray list and recently to the white list and still the number of ships keeps falling.
Detentions of Cyprus flag ships have dropped dramatically and the Cyprus fleet is no longer regarded as a flag of convenience.