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Another GBPA executive leaves

Two weeks after the Grand Bahama Port Authority Limited (GBPA) confirmed the resignation of one of its executives, the company has announced that the position of another has been made redundant.

Willie A. M. Moss, a veteran employee, held the post of deputy chairman for eight years, but the GBPA revealed late yesterday that effective July 1, the position has been made redundant.

It was the third time in exactly one month that the company has announced the exodus of a high-ranking Bahamian from the GBPA.

On June 21, Barry J. Malcolm, who had been with the company since February 2001, had reportedly resigned his executive vice president post effective immediately.

His portfolio included business development and licensing. The GBPA announced that he had agreed to work with the company to complete a number of projects in the pipeline.



Anti-Terror Arrests Made in Miami Raid

FBI agents backed by state and local law enforcement cordoned off an area of Liberty City and made several arrests on Thursday as part of what U.S. officials called a significant terror-related investigation.

There was no immediate threat to Miami, officials said. Formal details on the raid, which apparently focused on a warehouse, were to be released by U.S. officials at news conferences set for Friday in Miami and Washington.

About 20 FBI agents arrived on the scene and were backed up by state and local police officers.

In a prepared statement, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami said the arrests were made ``as part of an ongoing investigation into a terrorist-related matter.

''The individuals arrested posed no immediate threat to our community,'' the U.S. Attorney's Office said.



Foreigners flock to thriving Nepal Buddhism schools

Since hippies first beat the overland travel trail to Nepal in the 1960s, thousands of foreigners have flocked to monasteries to study Buddhism.Today, despite political upheaval and a decade-long Maoist insurgency, they continue to come and there are more schools than ever, many of which are now home to Westerners who donned Buddhist robes and never left.Thousands of masters and teachers fled Tibet with the invasion of the Chinese in 1950 and large numbers settled in neighbouring Nepal, where many Nepalis had been practising forms of Tibetan Buddhism for centuries.Perched on a hill with spectacular views of Kathmandu, Kopan Monastery was the first to start offering foreigners meetings with Tibetan Buddhist lamas from the foothills of Everest in 1969.The tradition continues to this day, and thousands of foreigners have passed through.