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Bahamas Supermarkets Ltd. strengthens executive team
Bahamas Supermarkets Limited has announced the appointments of Owen Burrows, Sharece Murray and Mario Simmons to new positions with combined decision-making responsibility for groceries, general merchandise, dairy, meats, frozen foods and warehouse stock nearly every item that contributes to the company's more than $132 million in sales annually.The appointments made over recent weeks were announced as the company completed internal re-structuring to support increasing sales and market share.
"As Bahamas Supermarkets continues to increase market share and look to the future, it gives us great pleasure to announce the appointments of Mario Simmons, Sharece Murray and Owen Burrows, three professional Bahamians who have been named to key posts," said Bryan Knowles, CFAO.
Bahamas. Luhrs Tournament Series Team captures 655-pound blue ...
The Luhrs Tournament Series Fishing Team from Jacksonville Yacht Sales, Jacksonville, FL, landed the biggest fish at the fifth leg of the Bahamas Billfish Championship (BBC), June 18-23, 2006, at Marsh Harbour in Abaco, Bahamas. The six-member crew aboard Fish Bones, a Luhrs 41 Convertible, landed a 655-pound blue marlin after a four-hour battle on June 22, 2006. Fifteen minutes before official lines in time, the huge fish took a Black Bart lure being trolled in 2,200-feet of water near South Man-O-War Island in the Abacos. After a few spectacular jumps, the big billfish went deep to 800 feet. One hundred-pound test line and 60 pounds of drag eventually wore the marlin down after a long brutal slugfest in 6-8 foot seas, said angler Franco Hall. Every time there was a swell I would gain an inch of line, said Hall.Microsoft a victim of centralized thought processing
Back in the 1980s, IBM and its centralized computing model was the bogeyman that had to be defeated. Distributed computing, which later evolved into client server computing and finally the internet was the answer. Believe it or not, at the forefront of that revolution was Microsoft with its PC on every desktop philosophy. Today, however, Microsoft has become the very same bogeyman that IBM was in the 1980s. However, Microsoft's enemy is not the intransigent adherence to a proprietary centralised computing model or even its own proprietary distributed computing model. Microsoft's problem is its lack of innovation and, more specifically, innovation in the area of web services. That problem stems directly from its human resources policies. Try as it might - and it has tried - Microsoft just cannot seem to make an impression in areas outside of its legacy money spinning areas of Windows, Office and to a lesser extent database management systems.In Iraq, a father bent on revenge was instead transformed
ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. - National Guard member Joe Johnson volunteered to go to Iraq to avenge his son's death. But what he saw there caused a change of heart.Johnson was horrified by the extreme poverty. The friendliness of the people and the grateful smiles of Iraqi children weakened his desire for revenge and made him want to help instead.
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Cayman Islands may pay for US citizens' passports
With less than six months to go before the much-feared Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) kicks in, Caribbean tourism officials have decided to reimburse passport costs to some US travellers.The Cayman Islands is a member of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), which recently took the decision ahead of the 1 January 2007 date for US citizens to have passports ready for returning to the US.
American visitors to this country account for 40.5 percent of the guests who come here and they are the second most dependent on those travellers in the region, only behind Jamaica, which counts for 58.4 percent.
Other Caribbean countries likely to suffer economically if the new CTO measures fail are the British Virgin Islands (32.2 percent), the Bahamas (21.7), and St Kitts and Nevis (20.4).
Flight risk: Kim Taylor makes love of travel her business
The fact that she was born in the Bahamas and lived there for the first six years of her life influences her vision. So does her love of warm tranquil breezes, turquoise seas and slow sunsets."The islands are in my blood," Taylor said. "The Bahamas are still in my soul."
But there's another side to Kim Taylor; a thrill-seeking side that has enticed her to bungee-jump at Victoria Falls and ski down a glacier in Austria.
Taylor's deep love of travel gives her the chance to indulge and explore the contrasting sides of her nature, and as the owner of Admiral Travel Gallery on Main Street in Lakewood Ranch, her passion for travel helps her make a living.
"I love being able to plan experiences for people and know that they are going to have a great time," Taylor said.