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The Bahamas Boasts :
Grand Bahama :
Garden of the Groves
Love is in the Air at the Garden of the Groves! - Feb 8, 2010 - 11:19:07 PM
Freeport, Bahamas -
Love is in the Air at
The Garden of The Groves
This Sunday, February 14th Join us for a special day of love for you and your Valentine!
Valentine's Day Lunch
at the Garden Cafe.
Julie & Chef Stephan are creating a special lunch menu
to tantalize your taste buds and please your palate!
Cornish Hen w/Wild Rice
OR
Flank Steak
Each served with fresh veggie kabobs
And, for dessert
Decadent White and Dark Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
garnished with Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Glass of Champagne or Mimosa
$15.95 plus 15% gratuity
Call 374-7779 for reservations
Valentine's Day 'Walk of Love' on the Grand Bahama Labyrinth
from 4:30 - 6:00pm
. Enjoy beautiful live music and champagne...
News :
Local
Supermodel of the Bahamas to Open Call in Eleuthera - February 27th - Feb 8, 2010 - 10:42:18 PM
Nassau, Bahamas -
Supermodel of the Bahamas
invites residents of Eleuthera to an
Open Call on Saturday,
February 27th from 12 noon until 5pm at the
Quality Inn Cigatoo in Governor's Harbour.
Calls
for Grand Bahama and Abaco have already been completed.
A final call date
for
Nassau
is set for
February 13th
at
Bally Total Fitness
from 1pm to 4pm.
In the year 2010 the organization
has expanded its event with a
Children’s Category, looking to find children ranging in ages from
3 years through to 13 years of age and from
14
through 21 years of age...
Sales & Promotions
Terry McMillan and Sybil Wilkes Set to Lead a Valentine’s Day Weekend Heart Celebration on Grand Bahama Island - Feb 8, 2010 - 8:37:41 PM
Orlando, FL
- Bestselling author
Terry McMillan and radio personality
Sybil Wilkes
have joined The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and Turquoise Waters Productions
along with medical partners, the Association of Black Cardiologists to present
Island Heart Beats Experience:
“
Take Your Heart on Vacation,” from February 11-14, 2010.
Island Heart Beats Experience
is a four-day weekend girlfriend getaway on Grand Bahama Island designed
to put a new twist on Valentine’s Day by encouraging African American
women and women of color to love and appreciate themselves first and
to celebrate and promote healthy hearts.
Two events that locals can get involved in is the
February 12th Red Dress Dinner and the
seminar led by Terry McMillan on Saturday,
February 13th...
Entertainment
(VIDEO) "Traffic Jam" a short film by Charlie Smith - Feb 8, 2010 - 7:19:00 PM
Nassau, Bahamas - We all know how driving in traffic can be agitating!
Check out this short film directed by award winning Bahamian filmmaker, Charlie Smith, which was shot in The Bahamas.
This film gives a sweet and funny solution to the universal problem of traffic jams.
Charles Allan Smith (Charlie) is a multi
award-winning Filmmaker/Photographer with more than twenty years of
experience as a director, photographer, writer, producer and on-air
talent...
News :
Ministry of Tourism Updates
Bahamas International Maritime Conference and Trade Show to Open February 9th - Feb 8, 2010 - 5:08:14 PM
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - The
Bahamas International Maritime Conference and Trade Show (BIMCATS) 2010
results from collaboration of the Ministry of The Environment and
Bahamas Maritime Authority with public and private sector partners.
The 2010 Conference will be held at Our Lucaya Beach and Golf Resort from
February 9th to the 12th.
Under the theme ‘The Maritime Sector and the Environment’
...
Bahamian Politics
Statement by Dr. Bernard Nottage MP on the upcoming by-election - Feb 8, 2010 - 4:10:34 PM
Nassau, The Bahamas - Enclosed is a Statement by Dr. Bernard Nottage MP.
I wish to report on
a number of issues which will affect the conduct and outcome of the
bye-election scheduled for February 16th.
The Voters Register
The first of these
is the integrity of the Register of Voters.
As a result of comments
attributed to the Parliamentary Registrar in a leading daily publication
on January 26th 2010, I sent the following letter to the
Parliamentary Registrar on the 27th January 2010...
Community :
Service Organizations
Bahamas Red Cross Society Honours H.E. Lady Darling at 38th Annual Ball - Feb 8, 2010 - 3:58:59 PM
Nassau, Bahamas - “I will always have the Red Cross at heart,” said Lady
Darling at the 38thth,
2010. Annual Red Cross Ball where she was honoured for
her contributions to the Bahamas Red Cross Society on January 30
“When Lady Darling joined the Red Cross in her year as
president,” explained Beverly Wallace-Whitfield, past president, “We had a
$77,000 deficit and her goal was to make sure that it was behind us and with a
strong team and good volunteers, she succeeded.”
Marina Glinton, retired director general who also worked
with Lady Darling attributed the fact that “Lady Darling’s team consisted of
people whom she could pull the best from...”
News :
International
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...
News :
Bahamas Information Services Updates
Foreign Direct Investments Showing Positive Signs, says PM - Feb 8, 2010 - 1:18:47 PM
Nassau, The Bahamas - Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert A.
Ingraham said on Thursday, February 5, that foreign direct investments in The
Bahamas are showing positive signs.
He also said that several of the tourism related
developments, which stalled because of the global recession and international
financial crisis are preparing to move forward this year.
“It is expected that as the US
economy begins to grow there will be improvement in the second-home market.
Also, investments in other segments of our economy are showing positive signs,”
the Prime Minister said in his New Year’s Address to the Nation...
News :
Local
National Day of Prayer and Fasting - February 10th - Feb 8, 2010 - 12:38:19 PM
The Bahamas has a long history
of religion. It’s founding church, The Church of England, better
known as the Anglican Church, and its multiple Christian denominations
gives this nation reason to boast of its Christian heritage, and Christian
practices has maintained the way of life that the world envied.
Vacationers world-wide seek these known to be peaceful shores, for
a paradise experience including fun, safety, and cleanliness.
Proud Bahamians boasted for
many years of the status of a “Christian Nation.”
Prime Minister, The Honourable Hubert A. Ingraham, speaks volumes in
the spirit, and throughout our country; that we give God the authority
to help us bring order, peace, and prosperity back to this nation.” The National Day of Prayer and Fasting is slated
for Wednesday February, 10, 2010, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m...
Columns :
Letters to The Editor
Has the National Spelling Bee been politicized? - Feb 8, 2010 - 12:30:57 PM
Dear Editor,
It
is widely known in this country that I introduced the National Spelling
Bee to the school system of The Bahamas to select a student to
participate in the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee held
annually at the end of May in Washington D.C.
The
Washington Informer, the paper that I worked with in Washington, D.C.,
as news editor for twelve years, is the sponsor of the District of
Columbia Spelling Bee. After attending my first Scripps Bee in 1982, I
promised myself that whenever I returned to The Bahamas I would do
whatever I could to get The Bahamas involved in this competition. I
returned to The Bahamas permanently in 1996, and when I became editor
of The Nassau Guardian in 1997...
Sales & Promotions :
Treasure Bay Casino
Hot Salsa Nights at Club Cove - Feb 8, 2010 - 12:02:07 PM
Freeport, Grand Bahama - Experience the passion and intensity of Latin Dance every Tuesday night at
Club Cove, the Casino at Our Lucaya. Enjoy a full evening of Latin music and dance with an instructor to guide you through every step.
Dance instruction from 7 to 9 pm with Latin Club Music until midnight.
Margaretas 2 for 1 all night, Sangria, and all entrees under $10
Hot Salsa Nights are every Tuesday night...
News :
Ministry of Tourism Updates
Bahamas Wins Big at HSMAI Adrian Awards - Feb 8, 2010 - 12:01:57 PM
NASSAU, The Bahamas – The Hospitality Sales &
Marketing Association International (HSMAI) honored The Islands of The
Bahamas with two of the coveted Adrian Awards for web marketing
excellence for their winning entries in the 53rd annual Adrian Awards
Competition. The Bahamas accepted these awards at last night’s 20th
annual black-tie awards gala held at the Marriott Marquis in New York,
NY. The HSMAI Adrian Awards Competition is the largest and most
prestigious travel marketing competition globally. There were nearly
1,100 entries from around the world judged by top executives from all
sectors of the industry.
The Bahamas were rewarded with the competition’s highest honor, a
Platinum Adrian Award, given to only 20 entries, for the innovative web
marketing campaign, “Bahama Fridays.” A video parody of a local news
segment entitled “Bahama Fridays” was produced and brought the fun of
the islands into the homes and offices of U.S. consumers. With the
video as inspiration, a consumer ambush event was created in New York
using 100 “commuters” in bikinis...
News
Adopt a Coral Reef in The Bahamas! - Feb 8, 2010 - 10:38:58 AM
Coral reefs are the foundation that sustains all life in the
Caribbean and nowhere is this more apparent than on the reefs and in
the communities of The Bahamas.
You can help protect the world’s most beautiful and diverse habitats when you
Adopt a Coral Reef today.
With its many uninhabited islands and the clearest water in the
world, The Bahamas harbors key populations of the Caribbean’s most
iconic marine species, from Nassau grouper to bottle-nosed dolphins,
bonefish to sea turtles. Tourists, drawn by the climate and the natural
beauty of the Caribbean, account for nearly half of the region’s entire
income and coral reefs provide more than $4 billion a year from
fisheries, scuba-diving, tourism and shoreline protection...
News :
International
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.
News :
International
(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...
Columns :
Computer Korner
Facebook Begins Rolling Out New Home Page Design - Feb 8, 2010 - 6:24:33 AM
Facebook is now fully launching the long-planned redesign, with 80 million users getting it tonight — that’s 80 million of the now 400 million people using the site, the company says. The new design is basically what we’ve been examining in detail since the first test screenshots appeared last October.
Parts of the site that were formerly located in the bottom toolbar —
bookmarks, notifications, chat — are now being moved up into the
left-hand navigation column on the homepage, or into the top navigation
bar. Here are some more details gleaned from Facebook this evening.
