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Holiday to be a cold one
Forecasters are predicting that a number of passing cold fronts will chill the air and bring cooler temperatures to the area over the next few months.A cold front is expected to hit the islands of The Bahamas today and members of the public are being urged to pull out their sweaters and blankets, at least until Thursday when there is an expected warmer weather break for another five days.
"We expect another cold front to enter the extreme Northwest Bahamas tomorrow (Monday)," said Pat Butler, a forecaster at the department of meteorology. He explained that the northern islands, like Grand Bahama, Abaco and Bimini should feel the brunt of the cold front, but New Providence is also expected to experience cooler temperatures. "In the daytime, temperatures will be in the mid-70s and in the night time they should be in the low 60s," said Mr.
Nairn: 'Chalk's still has no permission'
Even though Chalk's has plans to lease an airline that would resume service on its behalf as early as next week, the government on Monday has claimed otherwise.General Manager of Chalk's International Airlines, Roger Nair, told The Guardian that Chalk's, in an effort to reintroduce itself to the Bimini market and maintain its presence, has wet-leased airplanes from the Montana-based Big Sky Airlines.
"It is their licence," Mr Nair said about Big Sky Airlines and their proposed plans to begin service on behalf of Chalk's beginning Nov. 9. "It is Big Sky's operations. They have complete operational control. It is their crew, their plans, their certificate, their licence and their aircraft."
On the other hand, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Transport, Archie Nairn, said Chalk's has no authorisation to operate a service into The Bahamas, even if another carrier has been leased by the company.
A new, uninsured reality
According to meterological data collected by the website hurricanecity.com, Grand Bahama is the second most frequently hurricane-hit land mass in the world, following Grand Cayman. Since 1871, Grand Bahama has weathered a hurricane on average once every 2.45 years, and Andros, Abaco and Bimini are close behind in the top 10 list. Hurricanes are a reality in the Bahamas, and so, too, are increasingly expensive premiums for hurricane insurance. Since 2004, insurance rates in Grand Bahama have jumped 20-40 percent, according to several insurance providers. The cost of hurricane insurance, according to Patrick Ward, CEO of Bahamas First General Insurance, has a lot to do with the cost of reinsuranceĀinsurance for insurance companies. Each year reinsurers put up billions of dollars in capital in a gamble against the likelihood of a catastrophe, and when disaster strikes, they pay dearly.