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3rd annual Bahamas File Festival
The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) kicks off its third annual celebration of films, events and panels presented amidst idyllic Bahamian settings on December 7th 10th, 2006. Festival attendees will delight in the nation's tropical beauty and cultural charms thanks to Founding Sponsors Atlantis Paradise Island Resort and the Islands of The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. Audiences will enjoy Festival programs and events at such venues as the Atlantis Theatre, screenings at Galleria JFK 6 in Nassau, and gala parties. The festival is open, available and accessible to all visitors and Bahamians alike. It surely is "Cinema In Paradise." As previously announced, Oscar® Winner and Bahamian resident, actor Nicolas Cage will be the recipient of the Career Achievement Award at the Third Annual Bahamas International Film Festival.
WestJet Announces Additional Non-Stop Service From Toronto to Sun ...
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(CCNMatthews - Nov. 17, 2006) - WestJet (TSX:WJA) today announced it will offer additional seasonal non-stop service from Toronto to Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and Nassau, Bahamas starting January 8, 2007 until April 28, 2007.WestJet will offer additional non-stop flights between Toronto and these popular sun destinations with introductory fares starting at $109 CAD. These fares must be booked by November 22, 2006.
With these additional flights from Toronto, WestJet now offers ten flights per week to Fort Lauderdale, ten flights per week to Tampa and four flights per week to Nassau, Bahamas. WestJet also offers two flights daily from Toronto to Orlando, three flights weekly to West Palm Beach and daily flights to Fort Myers and Las Vegas.
Seats are available for sale immediately and can be booked online at westjet.com, by calling 1-888-WESTJET, with no additional service fees, or through a travel agent.
Bahamas probes Anna Nicole Smith's permanent residency status
NASSAU, Bahamas Authorities are investigating whether reality T-V star Anna Nicole Smith legally obtained permanent residency in the Bahamas. Bahamian immigration director Vernon Burrows says the probe centers on a one (M) million-dollar house Smith's attorneys say she purchased. That would have met a requirement for permanent residency in the island chain. But Gaither B. Thompson tells The Associated Press that he owns the house where the 38-year-old Smith stayed while pregnant with her daughter. The Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, developer declined to comment further. But a Bahamian lawyer for Smith, Wayne Munroe, tells The A-P he's seen the document conveying the property to the Texas-born former Playboy Playmate. Smith's daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was born in the Bahamian capital of Nassau on September Seventh.Police beef up presence in anticipation of busy Christmas holiday ...
The Royal Bahamas Police Force has heightened its presence in prime shopping areas in an effort to lower the growing number of holiday-shopping-related robberies.While police press liaison officer Inspector Walter Evans could not say yesterday exactly how many robberies occurred over the holiday shopping season
last year, he admitted that there were "a lot." And this year police have gotten an early start on trying to bring those numbers down, he said. "During this holiday season we are trying to cut down the number of robberies not only at the mall, but at shopping places on the whole," Inspector Evans told
The Nassau Guardian yesterday. "There are quite a bit of outward signs of police protection around (and) you can easily see some...but there are still some invisible signs of police protection."
As shopping increases after the Thanksgiving season and into December, so will the number of police in strategic areas, Inspector Evans explained.
Anna Nicole Smith wants new digs
NASSAU, Bahamas Anna Nicole Smith is house-hunting in the Bahamas, where a former boyfriend is seeking to remove her from a waterfront home where she has taken refuge since her son's death.The reality TV star and her companion, Howard K. Stern, are considering homes on various islands in the archipelago, Smith's attorney, Wayne Munroe, said Monday.
Smith, who gave birth to a daughter in the Bahamas, used the house in Nassau as the basis for her application for permanent residency.
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US Embassy donates $25,000 to assist in the fight against HIV/AIDS ...
NASSAU U.S. Ambassador John Rood presented cheques totalling approximately $25,000 to three local non profit HIV/AIDS organizations on Thurs-day, November 2.The funding was made possible through the U.S. Government's Caribbean Ambassador's HIV/AIDS Fund to promote awareness and education about HIV/AIDS in The Bahamas.
Ambassador Rood said the fight against HIV/AIDS is a priority for the U.S. Government, which has allocated a record amount of funding for HIV/AIDS over the past few years to support the cause worldwide. In fiscal year 2005, the U.S. provided approximately $2.8 billion to the fight, and for fiscal year 2006 the U.S. commitment has grown to over $3.2 billion. President Bush has requested over $4 billion for fiscal year 2007.
The Ambassador noted that President Bush and Secretary Rice continue to encourage U.S.