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Ingraham says PLP copied
Free National Movement leader and former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham charged that the government copied the FNM's investment policy because it had none of its own.Mr Ingraham was speaking late Wednesday night in his contribution to the 2006/07 Budget debate.
He said that a year ago, during the last budget exercise, the FNM requested a copy of the government's investment policy but did not receive it.
The reason for that, he surmised, was that the national investment policy being followed by the government was the same one promulgated, published and distributed by the FNM more than 10 years ago. "They never managed to produce a copy of an investment policy reflecting any change from what existed in May, 2002," said Mr Ingraham, "although we have had sight of a brochure bearing the photographs and messages of the Prime Minister and the former Minister responsible for financial services and investments with descriptions of various sectors of our economy."
Mr Ingraham said the brochure did not contain any articulation of the government's investment policy or details of incentives and concessions available for the prospective investor.
Police lectured on healthy lifestyle, stress-free living
Reminding members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force that a healthy lifestyle is essential for a stress-free career, leaders of the Lucaya Urban Renewal Project and the Rand Memorial Hospital held a special health seminar yesterday at the Gerald Bartlett Headquarters.Chief Superintendent and Police Press Liaison, Basil Rahming, addressed fellow members of the force, noting that the health seminar was a much needed awareness into health because it shows guidelines for stress-free living.
"There is an urgent need for this workshop because every moment of our working day is consumed with stress because throughout your day you do not know what you will be receiving," he told the group. "When it comes to maintaining a healthy living, what happens on the inside also affects what happens to us on the outside.
Discovery Could Rock Archaeology
NEW PORT RICHEY - A tireless prophet with a salt-and-pepper beard and an inviting grin, John Saxer knows that mainstream archaeologists, journalists and folks in Tarpon Springs think he's nuts.They reject his Greek mythology- and archaeology-based theories that Tarpon Springs is the center of the biblical Garden of Eden and the Tampa Bay area coastline was the seaport of Atlantis.
It's been a tough sell, acknowledges Saxer, a 55-year-old bicycle mechanic and bartender who was homeless for much of 2004.
Saxer has been ignored by archaeologists nationwide for the past 18 months, despite offering evidence of what he claims are 6,500-year-old stone ark anchors abundant on land near shorelines in New Port Richey, Holiday and Tarpon Springs.
"It gets scary when you're in front of the field," said Saxer, an amateur archaeologist since his college days at the University of Wisconsin.
BahaMar art competition
The BahaMar Development Company Ltd. announced the winners of their art competition Thursday (June 15) at a Grand Cocktail Reception at Radisson Cable Beach's Amici Restaurant. The competition attracted 70 artists who submitted 268 pieces of artwork for judging. The prestigious panel of judges included local and international faces, Director of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Erica James; Lecturer at The College of The Bahamas, Steve Fedora; Senior Vice President of Gettys, Ariane Steinbeck, and Vice President of Soho Myriad Art Consulting, Tracy Chevalier. BahaMar Development Company Ltd. announced the competition in March 2006 as a part of the company's pledge to create an authentic Bahamian resort metropolis at Cable Beach, and to purchase and showcase outstanding Bahamian art and artists.