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Final tribute for 'Sir Coaks'
The College of The Bahamas should erect a suitable memorial to late former Member of Parliament Livingstone Coakley for the key role he played in the creation of COB, Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday.Mr Christie made the suggestion as he paid tribute to the former Minister of Education during Mr Coakley's official state funeral service at Christ Church Cathedral.
"Hopefully the college will find it fitting some early date in the future to erect some suitable memorial to the central role that Mr. Coakley played in the creation and formative period of the College of the Bahamas," Mr Christie said. "He moved resolutely to develop and expand secondary education in The Bahamas...in Abaco, Exuma, Eleuthera, Andros and Cat Island."
Mr Christie was adamant that generations young and old must learn of the life and times of the former minister, as he was one of three "major figures in the building of the modern Bahamas, [and one of] three lions of a peaceful revolution who have been called to their eternal rest."
Though members from both sides of the political arena came to pay their respects, Mr Christie said that a piece of the past has passed without anyone really taking the time to realise it.
Bible Way 49th Holy Convocation Host Pastor Jamal Bryant, Bishop Larry Trotter, Bishop Neil Ellis and Bishop Carver
(PRWEB) July 5, 2006 -- Pastor Jamal-Harrison Bryant, the Senior Pastor of the 7,000 member Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, Maryland, Bishop Larry Trotter, Presiding Prelate of the United Covenant Churches of Christ and the Senior Pastor of the Sweet Holy Spirit Church in Chicago, Illinois and Full Gospel Baptists' Bishop Neil Ellis, the Senior Pastor of the Mount Tabor Full Gospel Baptist Church in Nassau, Bahamas are among several powerful speakers coming to the Washington, D.C. area July 16th through 21st for the 49th Bible Way Holy Convocation. .Pieces of Canada's first warship coming home from U.S. sea floor
Relics from the wreck of a century-old warship hailed as ''the cradle of Canada's naval forces'' will return to this country as part of a landmark agreement with the U.S. government.The 61-metre cruiser called Canada was launched in 1904 from a British shipyard, custom-designed as a speedy, well-armed man-of-war to patrol our Atlantic fishing grounds and train officers for a Canadian navy that hadn't yet been officially established.
But after serving as a military training vessel, and then in the First World War as a minesweeper and protector of troop convoys, HMCS Canada was sold, renamed Queen of Nassau and used as a luxury liner for cruises between Florida and the Bahamas.
Then she sank in mysterious circumstances off the Florida Keys in 1926.
Google should buy Starbucks -- NOW!
I have wondered out loud about Google many times, if you have been following my blog posts. In my 10 Reasons I think Google is going down number ten was the Sheldon equivalency test; what could you buy instead? This is a very important basis for valuation. You would do this when deciding between auto insurance policies, beers, or laundry detergent, so why not a stock purchase? It is all about the allocation of capital resources, price and value. In my example at the time I used the combined value of Anheuser Busch (BUD) $35B + Federal Express (FDX) $34.5B + Starbucks (SBUX) $28B + Harley Davidson (HDI) $14.5B + Black & Decker (BKD) $6.5B and Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) $3.5B which were equal in value to Google's capitalization of $122B. As I am writing this, Google is presently valued at $127.5B, so we could add a seventh company, perhaps Cummin's (CMI) at 5.5B or maybe another growth stock American Eagle Outfitters (AEOS) at $5.3B.
Flynn is In, Again
PORT ANTONIO -- Errol Flynn's love affair with Port Antonio began in the 1940s while he was on a sailing trip destined for the Galapagos.Back then, a storm blew his boat the "Zaca" off course to Jamaica and soon he discovered the island's northeast treasure. Port Antonio became Flynn's home for many years, and as he wrote in his memoir, "After thirty-seven years of wandering, I had found my Grecian isle."Now, the Marina at Port Antonio has been renamed the Errol Flynn Marina in tribute to the town's most famous resident. "It's amazing that even today Flynn's presence remains an undercurrent in Port Antonio," said William Tatham, Vice President of Cruise and Marina Operations. "The renaming of the Marina is merely an affirmation of what residents and visitors have known for a long time, that his mystique is still very much a part of the fabric of this part of Jamaica."After his initial visit to the island, Flynn would return to Port Antonio and his 2000-acre Errol Flynn Estates on hiatus between films.The healthy wealthy cycling roadshow
Jonathan Vaughters was enjoying a tour of the New York Stock Exchange's trading floor when a stranger tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to wait before returning with a $25,000 cheque for Vaughters' developmental cycling team.“I'd never seen him before, he was simply a friend of a friend who had heard I was coming," says Vaughters, who as a professional rider was a member of the team that helped Lance Armstrong to his first Tour de France win.
.The battle for City Markets
"The lubricant for the machinery of progress is money." This quote is often attributed to the late Sir Stafford Sands, a former Bahamian Minister of both Tourism and Finance. He was referring, in the 1950s, to the necessity of a properly funded Tourism Promotion Board the body which was later to become The Ministry of Tourism.
What's special about this quote? Today, almost 39 years after the 1967 elections, and Sir Stafford's sale of City Meat Markets to a foriegn company, Winn Dixie, two new groups of businessmen are squaring off in a battle for control of this company, founded by the late Charles Albury, a member of the Bahamian family that founded and owned Standard Plumbing.
City Meat Markets' early life is simple. Sir Stafford's father, Stafford senior and his grandfather, Sir James, were grocers by trade.