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Bahama Islands News, Articles and Information
Branson deserves a rum
Virgin Atlantic Airways began service to the Caribbean in 1988 with flights to Barbados, St. Lucia and Antigua. In 2003, the airline launched weekly services to Grenada and Tobago. In 2004, service was introduced to Cuba and the Bahamas.This British airline flies out of Gatwick in the U.K., not Heathrow. After the tremendous sense of style Sir Richard displayed in Montego Bay, I won't be flying British Airways again. I don't care how many gates they have at Heathrow.
Sir Richard is reported in The Observer as having "kissed the runway's asphalt." He's overjoyed to be here, at last.
His elderly parents accompanied him on the flight, and told local reporters that they were planning to stay for a week. Indeed, his mother said she'd be coming back again soon. And that's before she'd even slept on it.
A high level of intrusion
The comments in The Senate debate of Budget 2006-2007 by Senator Philip Galanis were certainly a blatant intrusion into the private affairs of a private business that is totally supported and mandated by a specific law: The Hawksbill Agreement, 1955.There is nowhere in this progressive legislation which established Freeport, the brainchild of Wallace Groves where Government could determine or create policy. In fact, there has been reversed intrusion where Government has deliberately intruded in the affairs of the Grand Bahama Port Authority. Do we really have to remind ourselves of the Pindling "Bend or Break" speech?
It is ironic and many are questioning why immediately after the recent resignation of the most brilliant Central Banker The Bahamas ever had, Julian Francis, suddenly projects are approved? Is this simply coincidence or was Central Government, especially the Minister of Financial Services and Investments, holding the Port Authority to ransom by holding back on approvals which under Hawksbill basically is supposed to be just a rubber stamp once the Port has completed their due diligence and given approval.
Shower chances rise as low nears Fla.
Forecasters are predicting a 50-50 chance of showers for the Fourth of July holiday on the Space Coast. But today's conditons might be the calm before the storms as a low pressure system heads toward Florida. The National Hurricane Center is tracking an upper-level low east of the Bahamas.
In a statement today, forecasters in Miami said, "Additional shower and thunderstorm activity will likely redevelop later today and could produce brief periods of locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds across portions of the Bahamas today and over the Florida Peninsula on Wednesday as the system moves slowly westward during the next couple of days."
The chances for rain in Brevard County go up to 60 percent on Wednesday as the low drifts westward.
Here is today's local forecast from the National Weather Service office in Melbourne:
Independence Day:Isolated showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon.
Crown star witness testifies
Prosecution star witness Omar Johnson, whose gripping testimony lasted nearly four hours, took the stand yesterday, to share his account of the night in question.Johnson is a witness in the Ian "Six" Knowles Abaco murder trial. Knowles, 33, is on trial in Supreme Court for the April 2004 murder of Jermaine "Bobo" Thompson, who was brutally stabbed to death.
Attorney Vernal Collie said that Johnson, another resident of Abaco, is the most important witness, because he helped to get rid of the body. The prosecutor explained that Johnson was let off because an accessory after the fact, is not a law known to The Bahamas.
The prosecution contends that Johnson may have assisted in disposing Thompson's body, but that does not constitute murder.
Johnson's story began at about 5:00 a.m.
Outbreak Notice: Malaria in the Bahamas- Recommendations for ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently received official reports of 14 confirmed malaria cases in Great Exuma, Bahamas, an area where malaria transmission does not normally occur and for which antimalarial drugs have not previously been recommended. Thirteen cases occurred in residents of the Bahamas, and an additional malaria infection was confirmed in a U.S. citizen who traveled to Great Exuma in early May 2006. All these confirmed infections were caused by Plasmodium falciparum. Most of the patients reported no recent travel to malaria-endemic areas, but some of the Bahamas residents may have recently traveled from Haiti, where P. falciparum is endemic. Malaria is not considered endemic on the islands of the Bahamas. The Ministry of Health in the Bahamas has responded with heightened surveillance for and treatment of malaria cases, mosquito control measures, and education of the local population.
Caribbean: High or low season?
It's the middle of January, and heat-seeking bikini bombshells carpet the beach, bronzing the winter pallor from their pampered flesh. There's a special buzz in the air that grows louder as the beautiful people get amped for another night of seeing and being seen in the A-list spots. You're at ground zero of the Caribbean high season, and you wouldn't have it any other way.Same beach in mid-July. You decompress on the flawless stretch of white sand, mellowing to the shoosh of the waves. Tonight you'll splurge on dinner, happily blowing some of the money you saved by taking your trip in low season -- and you won't even need a reservation. Tomorrow, it's the summer sales at the boutiques, then a free snorkel excursion. You won't find these kinds of perks in winter. What's not to love?
Two distinct vacations, same great Caribbean getaway.