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Are you ready for the Junkanoo Jam?
Perhaps one of the biggest NCAA basketball Tourna-ments outside of the United States, is set to be staged here in Grand Bahama in just a matter of weeks.The fourth annual Junka-noo Jam, Grand Bahama's Women's College Basketball Tournament will take place November 21-26 at the St. Georges gym.
According to organisers this year's Tournament looks to be even more exciting than the previous three years.
"This will be the biggest one that we've had thus far," said David 'Stretch' Morley, president of the Bahamas Basketball Federation and visionary for the tournament.
"This Tournament will attract more visitors to the island than ever before."
And the reason for that is simple when you have teams like Maryland (2006 National Champions) and Baylor (last year's NCAA National Champions) coming to Grand Bahama, you can always expect a large following.
Union boss Pat Bain, 62, dies
Former President of the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU), Pat Bain, died at the state-owned Princess Margaret Hospital around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, after losing a battle with colon cancer.He was 62.
Mr Bain, a long time unionist, was also head of the National Congress of Trade Unions.
For more than 30 years, he fought for the rights of workers. Indeed, he will be remembered for providing important input when the most recent labor laws were drafted.
According to his labor colleagues, his death has left a "vacuum" in the movement.
Prime Minister Perry Christie hailed the fallen unionist as an outstanding trade union leader.
Under Mr Bain's leadership of the BHCAWU and NCTU, said Mr Christie, the laboring masses of the nation, and hotel workers in particular, made important advances.
BMMS to visit Nassau
The Society of Bahamian Merchant Mariners, a recently established group of Bahamian students studying at the State University of New York Maritime College, will host a two-day recruitment drive at the British Colonial Hilton this week.Twelve of the society's members will travel to Nassau on Wednesday on a mission to inform high school students who are interested in the maritime industry of the educational opportunities available to them, particularly at SUNY Maritime.
Society members will give presentations on Thursday and Friday to 100 ninth through twelfth grade students from the Bahamas Maritime Cadet Corps (BMCC). The cadet corps, chaired by Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) board director, Dudley Martinborough, is a BMA programme.
"Our goal is to get 400 applications in and to find a minimum of 20 (students) interested in attending the school," said the Society's president and founder, Rebecca-Ann Darling, on Sunday at the College.
AG Gibson 'could face disbarment'
Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson could be disbarred if she is referred to the Bahamas Bar Council's ethics committee over her criticism of a Supreme Court justice's ruling.President of the Bar Council, Wayne Munroe, has announced plans to refer Mrs Maynard-Gibson to the committee for claiming in Parliament last week that Justice John Lyons had "misled" the Bahamian people when he ruled that the Cabinet had compromised the judiciary's independence.
"I have no control of the ethics committee [and] if they see fit to refer [the matter] to the disciplinary tribunal, " Mr Munroe told the Guardian yesterday. "But quite frankly, the penalties run all the way from reprimand to disbarment."
Charging that the Attorney General had "assailed the judge's character in a fashion where she knew he could not defend himself," the Bar Council president said he would refer Mrs Maynard-Gibson under a code which governs the public conduct of lawyers.
Financial adviser pleads guilty to laundering funds
NEW YORK -- The former president of a Bahamas-based investment services company admitted laundering $220,000 of what he believed to be drug proceeds as he pleaded guilty Monday in a deal reached with prosecutors.Martin Tremblay, 44, of Jonquiere, Quebec, entered the plea to a money-laundering charge before U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan in Manhattan. He remained held without bail.
.Destroyers win BSF men's title
For the first time in over 10 years, the Bahamas Softball Federation's (BSF) national men's title is back on 'The Softball Capital of The Bahamas', the island of Eleuthera.The Twin City Destroyers made sure of that over the weekend, with a three games to one win over the Joe's Generals from Abaco, which was making their first appearance at the national event. For Destroyers ace pitcher, and arguably the country's best, Edney 'The JC Heat' Bethel, it was his second straight, and fourth in the past five years. He also carted off the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award in each of those four years.
Bethel finished with a perfect 3-0 win/loss during the weekend best-of-five championship series in Palmetto Point, Eleuthera, and struck out a whopping 42 batters.
It was rumored that the men might have played a seven-game series on both islands for the title, but BSF 1st Vice President Burkett Dorsett said prior to the trip that it would have been a long shot.