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Bahamas to return migrants to quake-ravaged Haiti - Feb 8, 2010 - 2:34:41 PM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – (AP) More than five dozen Haitian migrants detained as they sailed north through the
Bahamas will be returned directly to the earthquake-ravaged country, the Bahamian prime minister said Monday.
Two Royal Bahamas Defense Force vessels intercepted a boat carrying the 62
Haitian on Saturday, Prime Minister
Huber Ingraham said.
While
the Bahamas has made it easier for Haitian immigrants already in the
country to stay since the earthquake, Ingraham said the government will
not change its policy toward undocumented migrants found at sea.
"We will do all we can to assist
Haiti except we cannot absorb Haiti's population in the Bahamas," Ingraham told The Associated Press...
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China Heralds Bust of Major Hacker Ring - Feb 8, 2010 - 10:16:29 AM
SHANGHAI—China heralded a major bust of computer hackers to
underscore its pledge to help enhance global online security, with
state media saying officials had shut what they called the country's
largest distributor of tools used in malicious Internet attacks.
Three people were arrested on suspicion of making hacking tools
available online, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
Their business, known as Black Hawk Safety Net, operated through the
now-shuttered Web site 3800cc.com and generated around $1 million in
income from its over 12,000 subscribers, the report said.
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(VIDEO) Cold Took Heavy Toll On Florida Wildlife - Feb 8, 2010 - 9:52:30 AM
(Associated Press) Despite four decades of slogging through Everglades marshes and
mangroves, wildlife ecologist Frank Mazzotti had never experienced
anything like the aftermath of frigid January. The confirmed casualty
count so far:
• At least 70 dead crocodiles.
• More than 60 manatee carcasses.
• A bright-side observance of multiple frozen-stiff Burmese pythons, the scourge of the Everglades.
And also, perhaps the biggest fish kill in modern Florida history...
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(VIDEO) Frankie Jonas becomes Ambassador of new Atlantis Kids Adventure - Feb 7, 2010 - 2:07:58 PM
Paradise Island,
Bahamas - Ten year old Frankie Jonas, the youngest brother to the
famous American singing trio, The Jonas Brothers, recently became the
Ambassador of the new Atlantis Kids Adventure in The Bahamas.
Atlantis
held an official opening on January 23rd involving LEGO, who have
partnered with Atlantis with upcoming LEGO Camps to open in 2010, and
who have also produced a special Atlantis LEGO series.
Frankie
helped welcome forty visiting travel writers, along with their children
before revealing the large Lego diver, L.A.N.S.E. in the tanks at the
Hall of Water in the Royal Towers.
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U.S. Embassy's Martin Luther King Jr. Awards Ceremony - Feb 6, 2010 - 1:11:14 AM
Nassau, Bahamas - United States and Bahamian
government officials together with principals, teachers, students, and
family members attended the U.S. Embassy’s fourth annual Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., essay competition awards ceremony on Friday, February
5. The ceremony was held at the British Colonial Hilton Hotel.
A total of 65 essays were received from fourteen public and private
schools in New Providence and the Family Islands.
Students were asked to use
a quote from Dr. King about personal integrity and responsibility to
answer one of the following questions: “How can you or how have you
demonstrated personal integrity and responsibility to improve conditions
in your community?” or “Choose an important figure in your life
who best exemplifies Dr. King’s quote and explain how that individual
has demonstrated personal integrity and responsibility...”
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Family Publishes Memoirs of First Bahamas Envoy to the White House - Feb 5, 2010 - 9:15:43 AM
Miami, Florida -- An autobiography of the late Livingstone B. Johnson,
first Bahamas Ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations
will be released
February 27 at a book launching ceremony to be held at
the
British Colonial Hilton, downtown Nassau. According to daughters
Anita Johnson-Patty and Deanne Johnson-Anderson, “this is long overdue
and we are ecstatic that we are finally able to fulfill our father’s
dream.”
A former Member of The Bahamas Senate, Ambassador Johnson C.B.E.,
D.C.L., died in Nassau, Bahamas March 5, 2009 at the age of 85. A
State recognized funeral service was held March 20 at Christ Church
Cathedral, George Street in Nassau. The Ambassador is widowed by
Charmaine Culmer Johnson, his wife of forty nine years...
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IPBS launches new e-Banking module - Feb 4, 2010 - 10:34:08 AM
Nassau, Bahamas, New York and London - International Private Banking Systems,
the specialist provider of wealth management software for the private
banking sector, today announced the launch of an enhanced e-Banking module.
The software allows wealth management providers to deliver a superior
user experience to their customers with enhanced banking and investment
facilities using state of the art secure online access to data. The
platform supports a wider range of transaction types and features fully
revised comprehensive online reporting.
Bruce Raine,
Founder and President of IPBS said, "We have invested a significant
amount of development work into the new e-Banking module. The resulting
product delivers powerful and flexible ebanking functionality allied to
ease of use and the highest levels of user security to meet the
demanding needs of today's banking industry...
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Schneider Power Advances Two Caribbean Wind Projects - Feb 1, 2010 - 1:15:09 PM
TORONTO,
ONTARIO - In two separate developments,
Schneider Power Caribbean Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Schneider
Power Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SNE) today announced the achievement of
important new milestones on respective wind projects in the
Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic.
The
Bahamas Renewable Energy Corporation ("BREC"), a joint-venture between
Schneider Power Caribbean Inc. and WINSO Company Ltd. of Nassau, has
been notified by the Bahamas Electricity Corporation ("BEC") that BREC
has been short listed under the Renewable Request for Proposal process
and will proceed to the next stage. BREC has submitted proposals for
three renewable power generation facilities totalling 24 MW, spread
across three islands (New Providence, Abaco and Harbour Island)...
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Bahamian Youth Speaks to CARICOM Head of Government on Youth Development within the Region - Feb 1, 2010 - 8:01:41 AM
“Caribbean
youth dream of being the best that they can be, but their dreams and
aspirations, under the influence of family, friends and the communications
media as well as their own knowledge and perceptions of the opportunities,
rights and privileges available in developed countries, are oriented
outside the Region. Some, in particular older youth, are afraid
to dream because of the pain and frustration that comes from their social
and economic reality and the acceptance of the fact that their dreamed
cannot be realized.” – Report of CARICOM Commission on Youth Development.
History was
made last week (25th-31st January, 2010), as the
first Heads of Government Meeting with CARICOM Youth Ambassadors and
National Youth Council Presidents from nearly all Caribbean countries,
was held in Paramaribo, Suriname...
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Portsmouth Based Cutter Helps Bahamians in Drug Bust - Jan 31, 2010 - 11:21:55 PM
PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Two law-enforcement boarding teams from the Coast
Guard Cutter Forward assisted Royal Bahamian Police Force officials and
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents Jan. 27 in locating cocaine and
marijuana hidden within a Haitian-flagged vessel.
The crew of the Forward detected the 65-foot motor vessel Lady Tamara
running without its navigational lights energized at night from Haiti
to the Bahamas, and notified Royal Bahamian Police Force officials of
the vessel entering Bahamian territorial seas.
Royal Bahamian Police Force officials contacted the Coast Guard for
technical assistance with the dockside boarding of the Lady Tamara in
Matthew Town, Bahamas...
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Bahamas Habitat completes 150th Haiti relief flight - Feb 4, 2010 - 8:56:05 AM
Bahamas Habitat’s aviation relief operation passed a milestone Feb.
2, completing its 150th relief mission to Haiti. Volunteer pilots and
aircraft have delivered more than 125,000 pounds of medical supplies
and food, as well as medical personnel and equipment to Haiti’s
outlying airports using general aviation aircraft.
“This is an amazing accomplishment by
everyone involved,” said John Armstrong, president. “When we first
issued a call for help from the general aviation community, we had no
idea of the magnitude of everyone’s generosity.
“We have had a rush of requests from other organizations to help get
injured people out and more medical supplies in.."
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A conversation with John Rood (past Ambassador to The Bahamas) - Feb 3, 2010 - 11:40:07 AM
The Jacksonville Daily Record writes,
"Most people know John Rood as chairman of Vestcor Companies, Inc. and
JDR Companies, Inc. That’s because he began his career in real estate
development when he founded Vestcor in 1983 with a dream and
determination.
Since then he’s managed more than 50 investment partnerships which have
acquired or developed more than 40 communities comprising more than
10,000 residential units.
Along the way he has also been involved in high-profile political
campaigns, appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the
Bahamas, emerged as one of Downtown’s most passionate advocates and
even dabbled in raising livestock..."
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Air Jamaica to suspend some routes - Feb 3, 2010 - 8:56:23 AM
Air Jamaica has announced that it will be cutting its service to some
of its routes because the airline will be losing three of its planes.
The national carrier says effective March 9 flights from New York to Grenada and Jamaica to Orlando will be suspended.
The airline said it will be suspending flights from Jamaica to
Curacao, Chicago, Havana, Cuba and Nassau, Bahamas as of April 12.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Air Jamaica Bruce Nobles
said reducing the size of the fleet has become necessary as the airline
seeks to meet its financial obligations...
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Local pilot lending a 'wing' - Feb 1, 2010 - 12:12:42 PM
The Bahamas - (
The Freeport News) Local pilot Ricardo Laing returned to Grand
Bahama on Friday after flying his plane full of medical supplies to
earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
His trip was arranged by Bahamas Habitat, a United-States based
Christian nonprofit organization, which has been delivering supplies
and providing evacuation support for Haiti. The organization, which operates a warehouse at the Nassau Airport
where it stores the goods that people bring in, was looking for pilots
to help transport those goods to Haiti.
"The Bahamas is a closer point to Haiti so they have a lot of
volunteer pilots with airplanes who come and pick up the goods and
deliver them to different airports in Haiti, not in Port-au-Prince
because that airport is really overloaded," Laing told The Freeport
News Sunday afternoon...
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(VIDEO ) Water for Haiti - Jan 28, 2010 - 11:49:39 AM
North Carolina
- A Charlotte family's small business sunk by the economy, is turning misfortune into relief for Haiti. They're doing it with the help of social networking.
Howard
Mackie's small business went bust in the recession, leaving him with
tens of thousands of bottles of water with no where to go. He saw the need in Haiti, networked with everyone he knew, partnered with a relief group and now that water is headed to Haiti.
The water will be trucked to Florida then flown to Haiti.
The
group Bahamas Methodist Habitat is flying the water over and
distributing it in areas that haven't seen as much relief as Port au
Prince.
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Date Set in John Travolta Extortion Retrial - Jan 27, 2010 - 3:25:44 PM
TMZ.com - A date has now been set in the retrial of the people accused of conspiring to extort
John Travolta over the death of his son,
Jett ... TMZ has learned.
The judge in the Bahamas set the retrial for September 6. The trial is expected to last 4 weeks.
Pleasant Bridgewater and
Tarino Lightbourne
are both accused of demanding millions of dollars from John Travolta,
in return for keeping a document related to Jett's death secret.
Ironically, the document -- a medical waiver -- is of no real import.
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LEGO Systems and Atlantis, Paradise Island Resort Announce the World's First-Ever LEGO Summer Camp Programs - Jan 27, 2010 - 11:22:17 AM
PARADISE ISLAND,
Bahamas and
ENFIELD, Conn - This summer,
LEGO Systems, Inc. and
Atlantis, Paradise Island resort
in The
Bahamas - one of the top family resorts in the world, as ranked by
Parents,
Cond
e
Nast Traveler and
Travel + Leisure Family - announce the world's first LEGO® Atlantis Fantasy Camp.
During
three 5-day LEGO workshops this July, children will have a chance to
work side-by-side with a LEGO Master Builder in group building events
and hands-on, minds-on building challenges. The camp sessions will
take place from
July 12-16, 2010 (Session One);
July 19-23, 2010 (Session Two); and
July 26-30, 2010 (Session Three) with a cost per session of
$425
per child. Space is limited. Camp pricing excludes room cost and is
available only in conjunction with a 4-night minimum stay at Atlantis. ..
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Make-A-Wish Foundation® Receives $140,000 Donation from Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational - Jan 26, 2010 - 11:14:14 PM
PHOENIX -The Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational is bringing joy to numerous
seriously ill children whose wishes will be granted this year, thanks to
a $140,000 contribution to the Make-A-Wish
Foundation.
“We are honored to receive this generous donation from Michael, Kerzner
International and everyone involved with the Michael Jordan Celebrity
Invitational”
Jordan, the Foundation’s Chief Wish Ambassador, presented the donation
to Make-A-Wish® representatives Thursday at Kerzner
International’s Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas. The
Make-A-Wish Foundation, James R. Jordan Foundation and Butch Kerzner
Summit Foundation are the main beneficiaries of the ninth-annual charity
golf event, which will distribute more than $500,000 to selected
charities this year..
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Mitsubishi Electric Designs PV Modules for Installations near Salt Water - Jan 26, 2010 - 6:49:08 PM
CYPRESS, Calif. -
Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc. has confirmed that its UD5
and UJ6 photovoltaic modules can be installed near salt water. After
extensive factory testing, Mitsubishi Electric found that its PV modules
maintained a sufficient level of insulation from the corrosive effect of
salt air and ocean front environment to maintain the power output
specifications included in its warranty.
Mitsubishi Electric conducted substantial testing to verify the effects
of salt water exposure on its PV modules. Gathering salt deposit rates
for both U.S. and Japanese coastlines, and using these values to conduct
accurate simulated testing
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Find the Sun and Sand with Fares as Low as $44* with AirTran - Jan 26, 2010 - 6:07:03 PM
ORLANDO, Fla.- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. ( AAI),
today launched a sale for travel to all the airline's destinations with fares starting as low as
$44*. Travelers may purchase these sale fares at http://airtran.com, via AirTran Airways' reservations system at 1-800-AIR-TRAN or through your travel agent. For Spanish, call 1-877-581-9842.
These special fares are available for purchase through
February 9, 2010, and are good for travel
February 5, 2010, through
March 10, 2010, for
Florida,
San Juan, Puerto Rico,
Aruba,
Montego Bay, Jamaica,
Nassau, Bahamas
, and
Cancun, Mexico. Travel to all other destinations is valid
February 5, 2010, through
May 26, 2010...
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