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CARIBBEAN-HAWAII SPECIAL SECTION: Your place in paradise
NASSAU, Bahamas -- The online vacation rental advertisement looks like a fabulous find. For $350 a night, it's a two-bedroom villa at the upscale Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island along the powdery sand of Cabbage Beach. But when you look more closely, it's a lie."Easy walking distance of Atlantis," the small print more truthfully says. "Easy walking distance to Cabbage Beach."
Yeah, right. Bring your hiking shoes.
Meanwhile, at Guanahani Village on Cable Beach west of Nassau, three-bedroom ocean-view condos rent for $306 per night in high season for two people (each additional person $20 more.) What you don't see on the Web site, however, is that the 35-unit oceanfront timeshare property has just been sold to a private Bahamian group and is undergoing an upgrade.
Young ‘Minister’ gets to grips with new role
Nickolas DaCosta samples the winning entry by Jonathan Pedley for the conch stew competition at Taste of Cayman. Shown here are Jonathans parents, Arthurlyn and Philip Pedley.Since stepping into his new role as Junior Minister of Tourism Nickolas DaCosta, has been abusy young man.
He made his debut appearance at the Travel & Leisures Caribbean Youth Congress in Grand Bahama Island recently and since then he has been taking his position seriously.
Mr DaCosta, and his mother, Tammy DaCosta, took the time to attend some local Cayman Islands Tourism Association events including Taste of Cayman and the Tourism Stingray Awards Gala.
Mr DaCosta is a student from Cayman Brac High School and he recently took over the role of Junior Tourism Minister from Thea Bush.
'Tainted Love' traces battle to end smoker's 34-year dangerous liaison
TORONTO (CP) - Tina Triano had a love affair that lasted 34 years. The object of her affection had a long, lean build and a smouldering sensuality, saw her through good times and bad, and had a butt to die for! Still, she knew - and people reminded her often enough - this was one relationship that wasn't good for her and she should finally kiss it goodbye.It took her about 40 attempts over the years, but Triano believes she's finally given up that toxic love of her life: a pack-a-day addiction to cigarettes that began before puberty and remained a constant companion into her 40s.
"I feel like I won the hardest battle of my life, I feel like I can do anything now," says Triano, who chronicles her long attachment to tobacco and what she did to ultimately send it packing in her self-published book "Tainted Love: Diary of a Smoker."
She hopes the book (packed with hilarious anecdotes and hard-won wisdom that should appeal to smokers both current and reformed) will inspire others to butt out for good.