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So after our long and arduous day crossing the GS (Gulf Stream) we pull into West End on Grand Bahamas. We don't know what to expect here but we're tired and want to clear customs. We put up our quarantine flag - a yellow flag which is ...
Two JetSet Divas…and a Map | $99 Bahamas Bound Cruises
is the original: $99 Bahamas Bound Cruises america, amsterdam, argentina, barbados, brazil, california, china, europe, florida, france, [...] Posted by $99 Bahamas Bound Cruises | Ace Card's Caribbean Vacation | October 23, 2008, ...
A New Years Greeting From About Time
In our last blog we were half way down the Exumas, in the Bahamas Land and Sea Park. We got stuck there a little longer than we had hoped, and we were starting to sweat it , that we wouldn’t get to Georgetown when Steven arrived. ...
Prophet & loss: How the web's hottest gossip empire lost its mojo - Independent
Map of Cat Island Bahamas: It's Hard To Get Lost
Looking for a map of Cat Island Bahamas? Lucky you - that means you are probably on your way to rest and relaxation. Here are some maps to help you find your way...
Is Justin Gaston Using Miley Cyrus? - Just Jared Jr.
Ike in Haiti, heads to Bahamas and Cuba
Ike could dump as much as a foot of rain on Haiti. Karl Penhaul is in Cap-Haitien with the latest. • Ike begins to hit Bahamas island, heads toward Cuba Story Highlights NEW: Louisiana governor declares emergency as 370,000 still don't have electricity Evacuation order prompts 15,000 tourists to flee Keys, mayor says Reporter in Grand Turk says worst has passed, but damage "pretty huge" More.. Ike could compound flooding danger in Caribbean after Fay, Gustav, Hanna MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Hurricane Ike moved past the southern Bahamas on Sunday, carrying high winds and heavy rain as the Category 4 storm surged forward on a track that could take it toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The possibility prompted state and local officials in Florida and Louisiana to prepare for what may be the third major storm to affect the Gulf Coast in less than a month. "Let's hope it's all a false alarm," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Sunday as he pre-emptively issued a state of emergency. His state is still recovering from Hurricane Gustav; more than 370,000 people there are still without power, nearly a week after Gustav made landfall, he said. "There continues to be much uncertainty about the predicted track," he said of Ike. On Sunday, President Bush declared a state of emergency in Florida. The hurricane's outer bands could start affecting the Florida Keys by Monday afternoon. Residents of the Lower Florida Keys and Key West were ordered to evacuate beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday, and evacuation for the Upper Keys and mainland Monroe County will begin at 4 p.m., a statement on the county Web site said. Tourists were told to leave Saturday. About 15,000 tourists left the area after the Saturday order to evacuate, Key West Mayor Morgan McPherson said as a hurricane watch was issued for the Florida Keys from Ocean Reef southward. "We understand the inconvenience to the residents, to the tourists, to the businesses," Monroe County Administrator Roman Gastesi said. "But this one is just too close, folks. It's just too close to say, 'Bunker down and we'll be OK.' " At 2 p.m. Sunday, Ike had sustained winds near 135 mph (217 kph), with higher gusts. Its center was just west of Great Inagua Island and about 90 miles northeast of Guantanamo, Cuba. The storm was moving westward at about 13 mph, and forecasters expect it to continue on that track and turn west-northwest Monday. "On this track, the core of the hurricane will move through the southeastern Bahamas this morning and move near or over eastern Cuba tonight, and near or over central Cuba late Monday," the hurricane center said Sunday. The Turks and Caicos Islands were battered by "fierce winds" as Ike passed over Sunday morning, but the storm seemed to become more tame by sunrise. "The worst is over, it appears," said Audley Astwood, a reporter at a radio station in Grand Turk. "The damage is pretty huge." Watch as Astwood describes the devastation » Peering out a window, he reported during a Sunday phone interview that "it looks very dismal outside." Emergency officials estimated 50 percent of the homes on Grand Turk have been destroyed or have lost roofs, but the full extent of damage is not known, Astwood said. His home lost its roof, he said, and his family was huddled in a bathroom. Ike has raised fears about flooding, as rain from Tropical Storm Hanna saturated the ground when it struck last week, he said. The threat of flooding also loomed in Haiti, as the storm passed just north of Hispaniola -- the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The island could see 6 to 12 inches of rain with isolated maximum amounts of up to 20 inches possible, the hurricane center said. "These rains will likely cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides over mountainous terrain," the center said. The Caribbean has already endured three storms -- Tropical Storm Hanna, Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Fay -- over the past month, and Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, lost 79 people to Gustav, days before Hanna passed by last week, a government official said. The Haitian civil protection department said Saturday that the death toll from Hanna had reached 167. Hurricane warnings remained for the Turks and Caicos Islands, parts of the Bahamas and parts of Cuba. Sections of central Cuba are under a hurricane watch, the hurricane center said. Ike's passage over Cuba is expected to weaken the storm, but computer models suggest it will reintensify once it enters the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane center said. The center's long-range tracking map, which only forecasts a path five days ahead, places Ike in the central Gulf, about 200 miles south of New Orleans. The map has been steadily revised over the past several days to place Ike on a more southerly course over Cuba. However, hurricane movements are erratic and difficult to predict, and the center's "cone of uncertainty" includes sections of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, at a news conference Saturday, urged residents to begin evacuating the Florida Keys Sunday morning. "We continue to watch with much concern the track of Hurricane Ike," Crist said. "Ike has grown rapidly into a dangerous storm." Miami-Dade County has not issued an evacuation order and has not opened shelters, Mayor Carlos Alvarez said Sunday, noting that plans are subject to change. Evacuations in Monroe County were expected to last until Monday, the county said. A statement on the county's Web site said that once the evacuation effort begins, the county will not be lifting two drawbridges, over Snake and Jewfish creeks, for boats. The drawbridges will remain closed so as not to impede vehicles evacuating, the statement said. Crist declared a state of emergency Friday in case Ike makes landfall on Florida's southeast coast. The declaration allows officials to pre-position supplies such as drinking water and ready-to-eat meals near vulnerable areas. Source: CNN Added On September 7, 2008 Less..
Dive into the Bahamas - Times Online
The world's Biggest Fireworks Display at Dubai Hotel Launch
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/crisis-what-crisis-dubai-hotel-to-throw-30-million-party-20081120-6c2t.html Crisis? What crisis? Dubai hotel to throw $30 million party Dubai is throwing a multi-million-dollar extravaganza on Thursday to launch a luxury hotel on an artificial palm-shaped island, despite the bite from the global financial crisis. More than 2000 world celebrities are due to attend the event which has been dubbed by the local press as "the party of the decade." Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, actors Robert De Niro and Denzel Washington, and former basketball great Michael Jordan are expected to walk the red carpet at the US$1.5 billion "Atlantis, The Palm" hotel. The evening will peak with a fireworks display that will be "seven times larger than this year's Olympic Games opening ceremony" in Beijing and will be "visible from space", according to the event organisers. The event will cost a hefty US$20 million (A$31.4 million) said Sol Kerzner, the South African billionnaire, hotel and gambling tycoon, who is organising the bash. "We built something that's quite extraordinary. We've got to tell the world about it," Kerzner said about the lavish hotel which was built through a joint venture with giant local developer Nakheel. Nakheel, which is controlled by the Dubai government, has built some of the most iconic projects that have put the Gulf emirate on the world map, including a cluster of islands making the shape of the world. Located at the trunk-top of the Palm Jumeirah, one of three palm-shaped islands, Atlantis occupies the entire central part of a huge breakwater. The 1539-room hotel is made up of two pale rose towers, which are linked by a bridge which houses a US$35,000-a-night (A$55,000) suite. Management says there is a waiting list of guests for the suite. The Dubai hotel is inspired by the original Atlantis that Kerzner built in the Bahamas but is not an average 5-star hotel. It boasts the largest waterpark in the Middle East and a gigantic aquarium in which 65,000 fish, along with an enormous whale shark, swim in 11 million litres of water. The project was conceived at a time before the global economic crisis began biting the Gulf emirate. But Kerzner says he is optimistic about the future, adding that he designed the hotel "for the medium to longer term." The hotel opened unofficially on September 24 and has had an occupancy rate of 80 percent, Kerzner said. "We don't know how long it's going to take for the economy around the world to take off again," he added. The financial meltdown has affected Dubai and other Gulf emirates. The local stock market has crashed, losing two thirds of its value since the beginning of the year, and Dubai's real estate sector, a major driving force of domestic economy, has begun to stutter. Even Nakheel, Kerzner's partner in the Atlantis, announced on Monday that it would scale down its activities. The bulk of Dubai's tourists come from European countries, mainly Britain, which also have been hard hit by the crisis, and this could have a direct impact on Atlantis. Kerzner, 73, acquired his fame and fortune in the 1970s and 1980s by building hotels and casinos in South Africa, including the prestigious resort Sun City. He appears to share with Dubai the same taste for challenges and larger-than-life projects, which might explain the partnership between this Jewish businessman and the Arab sheikhs who rule this Gulf emirate. His Kerzner International also has not escaped unscathed from the global financial crisis. The company recently laid off 800 of its employees at Paradise Island Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas because of a sharp drop in the number of American visitors.
Waterbury teacher found dead in Bahamas
Photo; Map. This is an undated family photo of Tim Massa who was found dead Monday night, Jan. 5, 2008,in the Bahamas. Relatives told the Republican-American of Waterbury that Massa's body was found Monday night in a harbor near the ...
So after our long and arduous day crossing the GS (Gulf Stream) we pull into West End on Grand Bahamas. We don't know what to expect here but we're tired and want to clear customs. We put up our quarantine flag - a yellow flag which is ...
Two JetSet Divas…and a Map | $99 Bahamas Bound Cruises
is the original: $99 Bahamas Bound Cruises america, amsterdam, argentina, barbados, brazil, california, china, europe, florida, france, [...] Posted by $99 Bahamas Bound Cruises | Ace Card's Caribbean Vacation | October 23, 2008, ...
A New Years Greeting From About Time
In our last blog we were half way down the Exumas, in the Bahamas Land and Sea Park. We got stuck there a little longer than we had hoped, and we were starting to sweat it , that we wouldn’t get to Georgetown when Steven arrived. ...
Prophet & loss: How the web's hottest gossip empire lost its mojo - Independent
Prophet & loss: How the web's hottest gossip empire lost its mojo Independent, UK - The teenager's death, it suggested, had not been due simply to a seizure suffered by Jett in the Travoltas' holiday home in the Bahamas, but was the result ... |
Map of Cat Island Bahamas: It's Hard To Get Lost
Looking for a map of Cat Island Bahamas? Lucky you - that means you are probably on your way to rest and relaxation. Here are some maps to help you find your way...
Is Justin Gaston Using Miley Cyrus? - Just Jared Jr.
Is Justin Gaston Using Miley Cyrus? Just Jared Jr. - The Jonas Brothers will be going back to the Bahamas for three more concerts — in March, April and May 2009. Dylan Sprouse was seen getting cozy with a ... |
Ike in Haiti, heads to Bahamas and Cuba
Ike could dump as much as a foot of rain on Haiti. Karl Penhaul is in Cap-Haitien with the latest. • Ike begins to hit Bahamas island, heads toward Cuba Story Highlights NEW: Louisiana governor declares emergency as 370,000 still don't have electricity Evacuation order prompts 15,000 tourists to flee Keys, mayor says Reporter in Grand Turk says worst has passed, but damage "pretty huge" More.. Ike could compound flooding danger in Caribbean after Fay, Gustav, Hanna MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Hurricane Ike moved past the southern Bahamas on Sunday, carrying high winds and heavy rain as the Category 4 storm surged forward on a track that could take it toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The possibility prompted state and local officials in Florida and Louisiana to prepare for what may be the third major storm to affect the Gulf Coast in less than a month. "Let's hope it's all a false alarm," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Sunday as he pre-emptively issued a state of emergency. His state is still recovering from Hurricane Gustav; more than 370,000 people there are still without power, nearly a week after Gustav made landfall, he said. "There continues to be much uncertainty about the predicted track," he said of Ike. On Sunday, President Bush declared a state of emergency in Florida. The hurricane's outer bands could start affecting the Florida Keys by Monday afternoon. Residents of the Lower Florida Keys and Key West were ordered to evacuate beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday, and evacuation for the Upper Keys and mainland Monroe County will begin at 4 p.m., a statement on the county Web site said. Tourists were told to leave Saturday. About 15,000 tourists left the area after the Saturday order to evacuate, Key West Mayor Morgan McPherson said as a hurricane watch was issued for the Florida Keys from Ocean Reef southward. "We understand the inconvenience to the residents, to the tourists, to the businesses," Monroe County Administrator Roman Gastesi said. "But this one is just too close, folks. It's just too close to say, 'Bunker down and we'll be OK.' " At 2 p.m. Sunday, Ike had sustained winds near 135 mph (217 kph), with higher gusts. Its center was just west of Great Inagua Island and about 90 miles northeast of Guantanamo, Cuba. The storm was moving westward at about 13 mph, and forecasters expect it to continue on that track and turn west-northwest Monday. "On this track, the core of the hurricane will move through the southeastern Bahamas this morning and move near or over eastern Cuba tonight, and near or over central Cuba late Monday," the hurricane center said Sunday. The Turks and Caicos Islands were battered by "fierce winds" as Ike passed over Sunday morning, but the storm seemed to become more tame by sunrise. "The worst is over, it appears," said Audley Astwood, a reporter at a radio station in Grand Turk. "The damage is pretty huge." Watch as Astwood describes the devastation » Peering out a window, he reported during a Sunday phone interview that "it looks very dismal outside." Emergency officials estimated 50 percent of the homes on Grand Turk have been destroyed or have lost roofs, but the full extent of damage is not known, Astwood said. His home lost its roof, he said, and his family was huddled in a bathroom. Ike has raised fears about flooding, as rain from Tropical Storm Hanna saturated the ground when it struck last week, he said. The threat of flooding also loomed in Haiti, as the storm passed just north of Hispaniola -- the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The island could see 6 to 12 inches of rain with isolated maximum amounts of up to 20 inches possible, the hurricane center said. "These rains will likely cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides over mountainous terrain," the center said. The Caribbean has already endured three storms -- Tropical Storm Hanna, Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Fay -- over the past month, and Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, lost 79 people to Gustav, days before Hanna passed by last week, a government official said. The Haitian civil protection department said Saturday that the death toll from Hanna had reached 167. Hurricane warnings remained for the Turks and Caicos Islands, parts of the Bahamas and parts of Cuba. Sections of central Cuba are under a hurricane watch, the hurricane center said. Ike's passage over Cuba is expected to weaken the storm, but computer models suggest it will reintensify once it enters the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane center said. The center's long-range tracking map, which only forecasts a path five days ahead, places Ike in the central Gulf, about 200 miles south of New Orleans. The map has been steadily revised over the past several days to place Ike on a more southerly course over Cuba. However, hurricane movements are erratic and difficult to predict, and the center's "cone of uncertainty" includes sections of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, at a news conference Saturday, urged residents to begin evacuating the Florida Keys Sunday morning. "We continue to watch with much concern the track of Hurricane Ike," Crist said. "Ike has grown rapidly into a dangerous storm." Miami-Dade County has not issued an evacuation order and has not opened shelters, Mayor Carlos Alvarez said Sunday, noting that plans are subject to change. Evacuations in Monroe County were expected to last until Monday, the county said. A statement on the county's Web site said that once the evacuation effort begins, the county will not be lifting two drawbridges, over Snake and Jewfish creeks, for boats. The drawbridges will remain closed so as not to impede vehicles evacuating, the statement said. Crist declared a state of emergency Friday in case Ike makes landfall on Florida's southeast coast. The declaration allows officials to pre-position supplies such as drinking water and ready-to-eat meals near vulnerable areas. Source: CNN Added On September 7, 2008 Less..
Dive into the Bahamas - Times Online
 Times Online | Dive into the Bahamas Times Online, UK - The Tongue of the Ocean is a dark blue shape on the map that licks round the western side of New Providence so that it’s surrounded by deep blue water. ... |
The world's Biggest Fireworks Display at Dubai Hotel Launch
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/crisis-what-crisis-dubai-hotel-to-throw-30-million-party-20081120-6c2t.html Crisis? What crisis? Dubai hotel to throw $30 million party Dubai is throwing a multi-million-dollar extravaganza on Thursday to launch a luxury hotel on an artificial palm-shaped island, despite the bite from the global financial crisis. More than 2000 world celebrities are due to attend the event which has been dubbed by the local press as "the party of the decade." Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, actors Robert De Niro and Denzel Washington, and former basketball great Michael Jordan are expected to walk the red carpet at the US$1.5 billion "Atlantis, The Palm" hotel. The evening will peak with a fireworks display that will be "seven times larger than this year's Olympic Games opening ceremony" in Beijing and will be "visible from space", according to the event organisers. The event will cost a hefty US$20 million (A$31.4 million) said Sol Kerzner, the South African billionnaire, hotel and gambling tycoon, who is organising the bash. "We built something that's quite extraordinary. We've got to tell the world about it," Kerzner said about the lavish hotel which was built through a joint venture with giant local developer Nakheel. Nakheel, which is controlled by the Dubai government, has built some of the most iconic projects that have put the Gulf emirate on the world map, including a cluster of islands making the shape of the world. Located at the trunk-top of the Palm Jumeirah, one of three palm-shaped islands, Atlantis occupies the entire central part of a huge breakwater. The 1539-room hotel is made up of two pale rose towers, which are linked by a bridge which houses a US$35,000-a-night (A$55,000) suite. Management says there is a waiting list of guests for the suite. The Dubai hotel is inspired by the original Atlantis that Kerzner built in the Bahamas but is not an average 5-star hotel. It boasts the largest waterpark in the Middle East and a gigantic aquarium in which 65,000 fish, along with an enormous whale shark, swim in 11 million litres of water. The project was conceived at a time before the global economic crisis began biting the Gulf emirate. But Kerzner says he is optimistic about the future, adding that he designed the hotel "for the medium to longer term." The hotel opened unofficially on September 24 and has had an occupancy rate of 80 percent, Kerzner said. "We don't know how long it's going to take for the economy around the world to take off again," he added. The financial meltdown has affected Dubai and other Gulf emirates. The local stock market has crashed, losing two thirds of its value since the beginning of the year, and Dubai's real estate sector, a major driving force of domestic economy, has begun to stutter. Even Nakheel, Kerzner's partner in the Atlantis, announced on Monday that it would scale down its activities. The bulk of Dubai's tourists come from European countries, mainly Britain, which also have been hard hit by the crisis, and this could have a direct impact on Atlantis. Kerzner, 73, acquired his fame and fortune in the 1970s and 1980s by building hotels and casinos in South Africa, including the prestigious resort Sun City. He appears to share with Dubai the same taste for challenges and larger-than-life projects, which might explain the partnership between this Jewish businessman and the Arab sheikhs who rule this Gulf emirate. His Kerzner International also has not escaped unscathed from the global financial crisis. The company recently laid off 800 of its employees at Paradise Island Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas because of a sharp drop in the number of American visitors.
Waterbury teacher found dead in Bahamas
Photo; Map. This is an undated family photo of Tim Massa who was found dead Monday night, Jan. 5, 2008,in the Bahamas. Relatives told the Republican-American of Waterbury that Massa's body was found Monday night in a harbor near the ...