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- Guyana says 53 deported since May
My family and I was planning a trip to Barbados or the Bahamas, but I will spent my money in the Bahamas, I see racism embedded in the culture. I am of European, descent and I know racist when I hear them speak. I love all people and I cannot understand
- 15 Countries Named as Potential Money-Laundering Havens
Financial Action Task Force, body created by Group of 7 wealthy countries to fight money laundering, names 15 countries and territories as potential havens for ill-gotten wealth; they are Israel, Philippines, Russia, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Dominica, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Panama, St Kitts and Nevis and St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Bahamas/UK Hedge Funds Settle With SEC on Late Trading Scheme
(HedgeCo.net) - Najy N. Nasser, manager of Bahamas/UK based hedge funds, Headstart Advisers Limited (HAL) and Headstart Fund, has been ordered by the SEC to pay $17.8 million in a settlement regarding his hedge funds alleged late trading scheme.
- Quetzal Energy spuds Atzam #3 well in Atzam field, Guatemala
Quetzal Energy says that the Atzam #3 well has been spudded with a targeted total depth of 4,200 feet and located approximately 500 meters east of the productive Atzam #2 well. The Atzam #2 was drilled in 1993 by Basic Petroleum (Bahamas) Ltd. to a total
- Cops: Woman takes kneeling woman's cash in church
(AP)
AP - Nassau County police said a congregant at a Long Island church disregarded at least one of its commandments: Thou shalt not steal. Police said the 46-year-old woman reached over a pew and took cash from a purse while its owner knelt Sunday at Our Lady of Hope Roman Catholic Church in Westbury. Police said an usher saw the theft, and officers stopped the woman as she left the church.
- Ms Koranteng wins Miss Universe Ghana 2009
Accra, June 28, GNA - Ms. Jennifer Victoria Koranteng, a 22-year old Theatre Arts and Psychology graduate of the University of Ghana, is to represent the country at this year's Miss Universe show scheduled for August in Bahamas. This followed her
- New Miss Universe Romania crowned
Elena Bianca Constantin (L) smiles after she was crowned Miss Universe Romania in Bucharest June 27, 2009. Constantin, 20, will represent Romania at the Miss Universe beauty pageant due to be held in Paradise Island, Bahamas, on August 23,
- Miami stories: Legacy of Education
My maternal grandparents, Sam D. and Ida Ellen Roberts Johnson, were born in Harbour Island, Bahamas. It is believed that their foreparents were among the millions of black slaves forced from West Africa and sold in the West Indies. Papa was Samuel
- Same NY house catches fire two night in a row
(AP)
AP - Authorities said the same house caught fire two nights in a row this week. Nassau County, N.Y., Fire Marshal Michael Mennello said both fires were deemed accidental. They appeared to be related to construction work. No injuries were reported.
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Lucayan Indians inhabited the islands when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the New World on San Salvador in 1492. British settlement of the islands began in 1647; the islands became a colony in 1783. Since attaining independence from the UK in 1973, The Bahamas have prospered through tourism and international banking and investment management. Because of its geography, the country is a major transshipment point for illegal drugs, particularly shipments to the US, and its territory is used for smuggling illegal migrants into the US.
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