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Exuma hotels rebounding
Two weeks after the discovery of malaria on the island of Great Exuma, hotel operators say occupancy numbers are holding despite a slight fall off.Antoine Chahwan, general manager of the Four Seasons Resort said, "We're very encouraged and happy with the good news, but we're going to have to wait and see how the rest of the world reacts."
For the resort, success will be measured by how guests react to the news and if they continue to travel there.
At this point, he said, occupancy is at about 75 per cent with the hope that those figures hold.
On the issue of how well the crisis was managed, Mr Chahwan said, "The communication lines were open from day one.
We chose to be forthcoming in choosing to tell our guests prior to arrival in Exuma, which will always buy goodwill for the future."
He admitted that some people may have some apprehension about coming right now, "but in the long term plans, they will always depend on the honesty and the level of communication that they see from Four Seasons and The Bahamas in general."
Similar sentiments were voiced by Chuck Roberts, manager of Palm Bay Beach Club.
Death of Jim Rubush saddens community
Editors note: Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp. assistant superintendent Jim Rubush died Saturday morning. Reporter Andy Graham last visited with Rubush Wednesday for this story.MARTINSVILLE
Jim Rubush, 59, seemed pleased to have visitors. He would have been even happier to have taken them fishing.
It was a gloriously crisp and sunny Wednesday afternoon, a cold front having chased away the customary July humidity the night before.
Rubush was at home, on the shores of Lake Edgewood in Morgan County, rather than at his Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp. office.
With a good fly rod cast through an open door, Rubush probably could have reached the water from where he lay in the hospital-model bed his hospice provider had delivered a couple of days earlier.
Crafted to impress
People who live in the Panamanian rain forest need a hand up, not a hand-out. That's the message of the 92-foot ketch Pajaro Jai, which made an unscheduled stop in Charleston on its maiden voyage from Colombia to Washington D.C.The $1.4 million ship is the brainchild of Jim Brunton, a Connecticut computer software entrepreneur who discussed his mission while wearing a straw hat to protect his reddened face from the sun. He said he will sail the world on the ship, a project of his Pajaro Jai Foundation.
"We go to Washington. We have a press conference," he said.
Brunton said the ship and crew, which includes native Chocoe Indians from the village of Mogue in the Darien rain forest of Panama, experienced a taste of Charleston hospitality when the Spirit of South Carolina shipyard threw a barbecue Monday night.
BTC preparing to increase capacity of its network
The Bahamas Telecommun-ication Corporation (BTC) is poised to broaden customer service and triple its capacity through its partnership with Nortel.Nortel, one the foremost wireless operators in the U.S., was awarded the GSM expansion contract from BTC earlier in the week.
The announcement of the new agreement came over the weekend during the 22nd Annual Telecommunications Conference and Trade Exhibition at the Barcelo Bavaro Convention Centre, Punta Cana, Dominican.
Hundreds of telecommunication and communication operators from throughout the Caribbean and United States attended the event hosted by the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organizations (CANTO).
The contract will also allow the operator to triple the capacity of its wireless network, extending service from Abaco and Bimini to include all of the Family Islands by the end of September 2006.
American Eagle Airlines Reports June Traffic
FORT WORTH, Texas, July 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Eagle Airlines reported systemwide traffic for June increased 12.7 percent from June 2005, on a capacity increase of 5.5 percent. System load factor was 80.5 percent, up 5.2 points year over year.American Eagle boarded nearly 2 million passengers in June, up 8.5 percent from June 2005.
About American Eagle
American Eagle is the largest U.S. regional airline, operating over 1,700 daily flights to more than 140 cities throughout the United States, Canada, the Bahamas, Mexico and the Caribbean on behalf of American Airlines. American Airlines is the world's largest airline. American, American Eagle and the AmericanConnection(R) airlines serve 250 cities in over 40 countries with more than 3,900 daily flights.
Strong thunderstorms reported over north Miami-Dade, south Broward
A series of strong thunderstorms were moving across northern Miami-Dade County into south Broward County Wednesday afternoon, said the National Weather Service in Miami.At 11:55 a.m., a band of strong thunderstorms was moving north around 10 mph. The storms extended from Krome Avenue across Doral to Hialeah and Opa-locka. It will move through Miami Lakes, North Miami Beach, Carol City and Aventura and into south Broward around Hallandale Beach and Miramar. This band of storms is producing wind gusts as high as 40 mph along with brief heavy rains and occasional lightning strikes.
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