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Bahama Islands News, Articles and Information
JIMENITA SWAIN, Guardian Senior Reporter
Two tourists have contracted malaria after visiting Exuma, the Public Health Agency of Canada has reported, heightening fears that the recent outbreak of the potentially deadly disease on the island could deal a serious blow to the country's tourist industry.According to a statement posted on the agency's website, a Canadian and an American traveller contracted malaria after having recently visited Great Exuma.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said it was closely monitoring the outbreak and had advised Canadians travelling to the island to use anti-malarial medication and personal insect protective measures against mosquito bites. The Centre for Disease Control in the United States last week issued a similar advisory to American citizens travelling to Exuma.
Youth advised to just say no
UNIVERSITY students are to play role models to their juniors in secondary schools in an effort by the Government to fight drug abuse.It doesn't seem to work when adults advise the youth, so now, we are asking the young people to talk to them.
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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.
Concern About Blocked Access To Abaco Beach
A dispute between an Abaco developer and a landowner within a development on the island is creating some tension as the developer, Nick Miaoulis, claiming that access to the public beach has been blocked off, and the landowner, Jerald Wisdom, maintaining that he has done nothing wrong. .WNBA All-Star Final Rosters Announced
NEW YORK (JULY 8, 2006), - The 2006 WNBA All-Star rosters have been finalized, it was announced today by the League. Eastern and Western head coaches selected the players who will round out the 2006 WNBA All-Star teams. The game will showcase the league's stars ranging from savvy veterans like the Los Angeles Sparks' Lisa Leslie, Detroit's Katie Smith and Phoenix's Diana Taurasi to the All-Star debuts of three rookies, Minnesota's Seimone Augustus, Phoenix's Cappie Pondexter and San Antonio's Sophia Young. Following are the player additions for the Western and Eastern Conferences for the 2006 WNBA All-Star Game Presented by Vonage:Eastern Conference Additions:
Alana Beard (Washington Mystics) Guard/Forward
Katie Douglas (Connecticut Sun) Guard/Forward
Cheryl Ford (Detroit Shock) Center
Deanna Nolan (Detroit Shock) Guard/Forward
Katie Smith (Detroit Shock) Guard
Tamika Whitmore (Indiana Fever) Forward
Western Conference Additions:
Seimone Augustus (Minnesota Lynx) Forward
Lisa Leslie (Los Angeles Sparks) Center
Cappie Pondexter (Phoenix Mercury) Guard
Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury) Guard
Tina Thompson (Houston Comets) Forward
Sophia Young (San Antonio Silver Stars) Forward
About the Eastern Conference Additions:
- Washington's Alana Beard is making her second All-Star appearance and ranks sixth in the WNBA this season with 18.7 points per game.
The View From Europe
Waving or drowning: sometimes it is hard to tell the difference. The World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Doha development round is in trouble and may be just weeks away from collapse, with hard to predict consequences.Theoretically the WTO Director General, Pascal Lamy, may be able to encourage a convergence of views and achieve enough global support for there to be a multilateral trade agreement but the prospects seem poor. There appears to be insufficient political will in Europe, the United States, Brazil and India to enable compromises to be made on their differences. At best any agreement is likely to be of limited ambition.
If there is little or no progress by the time of the next mini-ministerial meeting scheduled for the end of July, WTO members informally accept that they will have run out of time.