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Bahamas eager for Round 2
NASSAU, Bahamas The Bahamas men's national team is eagerly looking forward to the second round of the Digicel Caribbean Cup in Barbados.The Bahamians tackle the hosts in the opening match on November 19, followed by matches against Bermuda and St Vincent and the Grenadines in the next round.
"We've really started to make waves in the Caribbean now, and people are seeing us as a developing and up-and-coming nation in football," Bahamas technical director Gary Whyte said.
"We have gotten better. We've had teams qualify in the past, but the one great thing about this team is that the players have come right through our system."
Preparations have been ongoing since the side returned from first-round play in Cuba earlier in September.
Els, Woods in property venture
Nassau, Bahamas - Golf legends Tiger Woods and Ernie Els on Thursday won approval from Bahamian officials for a luxury resort they are helping finance along with a group led by a British billionaire.The US$1.3bn private residential community, planned for an exclusive corner of New Providence island, will include an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Els, Woods said in a statement. It will be called the Albany Golf & Beach Club.
"With Albany, I look forward to spending more time in the Bahamas and playing Ernie on our new golf course," the world's top golfer said. "We plan to make Albany very special."
The government and representatives of the Tavistock Group, a holding company managed by British billionaire and Bahamian resident Joseph Lewis, signed the deal on Thursday allowing construction to go forward after two years of negotiations and environmental impact studies.
Federal Agents Find Child Sex Suspect In Bahamas
(CBS4) BAHAMAS For months, diplomatic security agents say Albert Rachel has been on the lam, running from charges of alleged sex with an underage girl in New Smyrna Beach, but this weekend agents found him in the Bahamas."There's no running," said Ed Moreno, Diplomatic Security Agent in Charge. "We can track him around the world." Agents say they found him hiding in a remote Bahamian island. Just a few weeks ago, they received a tip that he had started a new life on Warderick Wells Cay. So on Sunday agents and Bahamian authorities boarded a Black Hawk Helicopter to go find him."Witnesses said that when he heard the helicopter, he actually jumped into some of the vegetation in the island," said Moreno.They found him hiding in mangroves, when the sun started to glimmer off his metallic belt buckle.New flights get skiers to the slopes quicker
Skiers heading to Tremblant this winter can get a jump-start on their vacation by taking advantage of Ultimate Ski Vacations' "Excite Flight," featuring non-stop flights from Toronto, and, new this year, Kitchener/Waterloo, to Mont-Tremblant International Airport (near the village of La Macaza).Departing from either the private executive terminal at Pearson International or the Region of Waterloo International Airport, total travel time from takeoff to slope-side check-in is about 2 1/2 hours. Flights aboard de Havilland Dash 7 aircraft will be available Thursdays and Sundays, starting Jan. 18, 2007 and running through late March.
Ultimate Ski offers air-only fares as well as three- and four-night flight packages, starting at $782 per person plus GST, from Toronto, and $840 per person from Kitchener/Waterloo (based on two people sharing a slope-side studio at Les Suites Tremblant, Jan.
Bahamians to get 'first preference'
Investment officials announced that Bahamians would be given first preference as regards employment at the new southwestern development that is set to employ over one thousand workers immediately and another thousand upon completion.Executives of the Albany Golf and Beach Club have signed a heads of agreement with the government that ensured that the company would search for Bahamians first before they looked internationally for employees. Minister of Financial Services and Investments, Vincent Peet, said the Albany resort agreed to make available to Bahamians any entrepreneurial opportunities that came about as a result of the development.
"Some 1,100 permanent full-time jobs will be created during this period. However, the number of Bahamian jobs created during this period through entrepreneurial and other spin-off activities could double that amount," said Minister of Financial Services and Investments, Vincent Peet.
Palm Beach Official Busted For Land Deals Including Diocese Parcel
MIAMI---A commissioner on the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners misused his position to personally enrich himself, his family and his secret business partners in a series of land deals in Palm Beach, Martin and Brevard Counties, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Anthony R. Masilotti, 50, of Wellington has been charged in a criminal information with fraud conspiracy. The information also seeks forfeiture of millions of dollars in assets derived from the fraud conspiracy, account to R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
If convicted, Masilotti faces a maximum period of five years of incarceration and a $250,000 fine in addition to the criminal forfeitures.
The information alleges that, among other things, Masilotti advocated and voted on these matters without disclosing to the BCC and the public his secret financial interest in the transactions, which ultimately netted him millions of dollars.