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Cinar was misled about its money, testimony shows
An agreement to invest more than $100 million U.S. of Cinar Corp. money in the Bahamas was only drafted and signed in early 2000 after the Montreal animation company began investigating what had been done with its money, according to testimony in a court-authorized examination.The phony agreement was just one element of an elaborate strategy to mislead Cinar into believing its money had been properly invested in a Bahamian group of companies with close ties to Montreal's Norshield Financial Group in the late 1990s, alleged a former top executive of the Bahamian companies.
Robert Daviault alleged that Norshield chief executive John Xanthoudakis orchestrated the damage-control strategy along with his long-time friend and business associate Lino Matteo, chief executive of now bankrupt Mount Real Corp.
Sean Connery writes a book
EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 6 (UPI) -- Actor Sean Connery, best known for his work as James Bond, is writing a book that mingles Scottish history with autobiographical anecdotes.Canongate Books of Edinburgh said the book, "Connery's Scotland," would be published in September 2007. It will coincide with the 300th anniversary of the political union of Scotland and England, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Connery, 75, who was born in Edinburgh and now lives in the Bahamas, has said he would not live in Scotland again until it became independent.
He will collaborate with Murray Grigor, a writer/film maker, on the book.
"Our goal is to produce a very readable, visually stimulating and hopefully intriguing history of Scotland, with personal discoveries," Connery said.
RealTravel Accelerates Sunburst Vacations Word-of-Mouth Marketing ...
RealTravel(TM), (http://realtravel.com), a travel blogging and information web site and Sunburst Vacations, (http://www.sunburstvacations.com/), a provider of travel packages for destinations throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Islands of the Bahamas, and Bermuda, today announced a partnership to increase Sunburt's word-of-mouth marketing while providing travelers the opportunity to plan, book, capture and share their travels using their combined offerings. A survey by the Travel Industry Association (TIA) reported that 43% of Americans cite friends and family as a source for information about places to visit or about flights, hotels or rental cars. Similarly, a Harris interactive poll revealed that 44% of consumers cite family, friends and co-workers as a top source for recommendations about travel purchases.
PM: Nassau Redevelopment A Priority
Noting the importance of making the much talked about downtown redevelopment reality, Prime Minister Perry Christie told The Bahama Journal on Saturday night that he expects the Bay Street shipping port to be relocated to southwestern New Providence by early 2007. .Binding Arbitration Needed
Binding arbitration is a process invoked when negotiations have stalled, and mediation has failed. It's something some labour leaders in the private sector have been calling for, and now government negotiator Keith Archer, who has deep trade union heritage himself, has joined them. .Native Son dies
While some settled in Florida, New York, and other places around the United States after working on "The Contract", Carter Williams returned to his beloved San Salvador.During his early days Mr Williams left San Salvador several times to seek his fortune, one of the places to which he traveled being the US, as a "Contract", or "Project" worker.
The farm labour programme, established on March 16, 1943, with various changes in organization, lasted until 1966.
With most of America's young men and women either actively involved on the World War II battlefields or in factories, the recruitment of outsiders was needed to keep US food production going.
Mr Williams was among an estimated 6,000 Bahamian men - including former Governor General Sir Clifford Darling - and women, in addition to about 90,000 Mexicans, Jamaicans and other Caribbean nationals, who harvested and cultivated a variety of crops that included tobacco in Tennessee, peaches in Georgia, corn in Minnesota, citrus in Florida and peanuts in North Carolina.
Chef McBride turns heads in New York
The Bahamas' leading chef earned the country business opportunities and assurances of visits to The Bahamas by New Yorkers after a single Bahamian cooking demonstration for Caribbean Week. Jason McBride, the 2005 Cacique Award's Chef of the Year, on Monday presented one of his signature dishes to the patrons of upscale Bloomingdale's Department store at Fifth Avenue, New York City. The demonstration was the first of four Bahamian chef appearances scheduled for Caribbean Week, which will be a vehicle for Caribbean Tourism Organization and Bahamas Ministry of Tourism to showcase the best of their tourism product. Chef McBride of Radisson Cable Beach Resort will make three of the Bahamian chef appearances, and Ezra Russell of Old Bahama Bay will make one appearance during Caribbean Week in New York, June 11 - 16.