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Junior golfers drop one spot
The Bahamas Junior golf team fell from second to third in the second round of the 19th Annual Caribbean Junior Amateur Golf Championships, but are still in the hunt to win the country's first title. Today, the golfers will play their final rounds at the Rio Mar golf course in Rio Grande with local favourite Puerto Rico holding the lead with 107 points. Trinidad & Tobago came on strong late in the first round this week to overtake the Bahamas for second with 80.5 points. However, team Bahamas is hanging tough in third place with 79 points. "For us to win the title its going to be tougher now," said Bahamas Golf Federation president Agatha Delancey. She told the Nassau Guardian that Puerto Rico and Trinidad are usually the teams to beat the CAJGC. "The deficit between us and Puerto Rico is a large one to make up, though not impossible.
Itinerary for week of July 9
Take the A train to the Middle Ages. The New York subway takes visitors to the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval outpost in northern Manhattan. This complex of early European architecture includes parts of five cloisters seamlessly assembled to house other works of art. Stone terraces and gardens offer spectacular views.New for summer visitors is a cafe where you can sip cappuccino sitting under the arches beside flower-filled courtyards. Recent renovations also include newly installed stained-glass windows. The museum now offers an audio guide, a lightweight, palm-sized MP3 player with tours in English, French or Spanish.
But the museum is best-known for something from the 15th century rather than the 21st — the world-famous Unicorn Tapestries, seven woven wall hangings that depict the hunt for a unicorn through luxuriant forests thronged with courtiers, knights and ladies.
ANGOSTURA AROMATIC BITTERS
The world famous product which is produced in the small island of Trinidad, Angostura aromatic bitters, is sponsoring this years CHIC/Taste of the Caribbean 2006 competition being held in Miami Florida from June 25th to June 28th.The product will be used in all preparation of food by the participating chefs and in the cocktails made by the competing bartenders. A special award will also be granted for the best use of bitters by one of the 15 culinary teams that will be participating in the event. The competing countries are Anguilla National, Anguilla and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Curacao, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St Lucia, St Martin, Suriname, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago and US Virgin Islands. Angostura aromatic bitters was created in 1824 by a German doctor who lived in Venezuela.
The Arcade Is Dead, Long Live the Cyber Cafe
I spent the past two weeks in what should have been the glorious sunshine of the Bahamas, but crap weather seemed to follow our cruise ship around.On the bright side we learned that a motorboat riding 8-foot waves makes my son vomit... repeatedly.
I brought both the Playstation Portable and DS Lite with me on the trip along with a ton of games, for all of that down time when my son is napping. But I ended up spending most of my time playing New Super Mario Bros. and replaying it. I still haven't gotten to a couple of worlds. Dammit.
I also spent a little time playing arcade games. How depressing is that.
.Hard days night for doubles teams
WIMBLEDON, England It was a sporting version of from here to eternity, tennis almost without end, amen. It was a doubles match that didn't quite double everyone's fun, even the two guys who survived.The men's singles quarterfinals? They were interesting to a point. Roger Federer was perfection once again. There were a couple of surprises, Marco Baghdatis and Jonas Bjorkman also moving on. And on a Wednesday of rain delays, Rafael Nadal didn't even move onto the court.
The remarkable thing is the doubles team of Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor was able to move anywhere.
They needed two days and 6 hours, 9 minutes to defeat Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry 5-7, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 23-21 in the longest doubles match in Wimbledon and Grand Slam history.Six hours, 9 minutes, and two days.
A 'Pirates' Life for Naomie
LOS ANGELES -- Naomie Harris almost didn't land a part in director Gore Verbinski's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" because of her looks."Gore didn't actually want me for the part because he said that I was actually too pretty and he didn't want anybody pretty," she reveals. "He wanted an older actress. The casting director, Denise Chamian ... persuaded Gore to audition me. When I walked into the room, he said, 'You're going to have to do this like three maybe four times so okay, let's just have a go.' And so I read it once and then he went, 'How would you like to come to the Bahamas?' It was great."
Verbinski didn't have to worry about Harris' good looks though, once she transformed into the character Tia Dalma, a mysterious Caribbean soothsayer from Captain Jack Sparrow's (Johnny Depp) past.
AirTran Airways Launches Sale for Travel to/From All Destinations
ORLANDO, Fla., June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI - News), today launched a sale for flights to all of the airline's destinations with fares starting as low as $39* each way. Travelers may purchase these sale fares at airtran.com or via AirTran Airways' reservations system at 1-800-AIR-TRAN. For Spanish, call 1-877-581-9842.These special fares are available for purchase through July 11, 2006, are good for travel through November 15, 2006, and are valid for travel on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Like all AirTran Airways fares, prices included in this sale are available for one-way travel and do not require a roundtrip purchase or a Saturday night stay.
Following is a sample of the one-way fares.