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Empire State Building Wearing Caribbean Colors
Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, N.Y., Tues. June 13, 2006: As New Yorkers get ready to experience the Caribbean on the South Street Seaport today, many were last night thrilled to see the colors of the regional tourism organization adorning the famous Empire State Building in Manhattan.In celebration of Caribbean Week 2006 festivities in NY, the Empire State Building will be dressed in the Caribbean tourism colors, yellow, green and blue, from June 12-15.
The colors are symbolic with yellow representing the bright Caribbean sunsets; green, the regions lush fauna and swaying palm trees and blue, the sparkling Caribbean sea.
Today New Yorkers will get an opportunity to experience the culture, cuisine and music of the Caribbean as the CTO presents the annual Caribbean Fair, from 10 a.m.
Wisdom for the web
Businesses of all sizes have found that advertising on Web search engines provides a powerful boost to their sales. They're also discovering that it can require more of their time and savvy than traditional marketing outlets like the Yellow Pages.Mark Williams has spent nearly all of his marketing dollars advertising on Web search engines including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. since starting ShavingCream.com two and a half years ago. Mr. Williams credits search ads, one of the fastest-growing forms of advertising in the U.S., with helping build his online retail business to a projected $200,000 in revenue this year. "It has fostered super-healthy growth," says Mr. Williams, 49 years old.
But managing search ads for the Menlo Park, Calif., retailer of men's grooming products online also eats up about 30 hours of his staff's time each month.
GB Cruise Arrivals Up, Despite Declining Trend
Grand Bahama recorded a significant growth in cruise arrivals in the month of April, the last month for which figures have been released, while the rest of The Bahamas recorded a decline, according to industry information from the Ministry of Tourism. .Cuban Ambassador has mastered the art of deceit
It is with a most disgusting and nauseating feeling that I am compelled to respond to two recent press releases by the Cuban Ambassador to The Bahamas, Mr. Felix Wilson Hernandez. After more than 30 years of being involved with human rights issues, I have drawn certain logical conclusions about dictators, their embassies and their diplomatic representatives when it comes to presenting the truth objectively to the public. They portray an idyllic society or country, one that is in the best interest of its citizens or one where the population is living in a "paradise." By carefully and deliberately controlling the flow of information, it is possible to create an "Animal Farm" society, where only the leaders and the system controls the behaviour of individuals. Anyone who challenges this process or offers a contrasting point of view, no matter how patriotic the motive, is deemed an "enemy" of the state and is either imprisoned or otherwise deprived and punished in some way.