ELEUTHERA, The Bahamas, September, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Fodor’s Travel, the leading name in travel guides for more than 75 years, today announced that The Cove, Eleuthera Resort and Spa has been recognized as a 2014 Fodor’s 100 Hotel Award winner. This distinction designates The Cove, Eleuthera as an outstanding hotel as selected by Fodor’s editors and travel experts, recognizing high style, excellent service and a remarkable experience for guests.

Each year, Fodor’s Travel invites their roster of 500 global contributors to nominate the best hotels in the destinations they live and write in. Fodor’s senior editorial team deliberated on over 4,000 Fodor’s Choice picks, poring over the list for months and narrowing their top selections into eight categories.

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Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) will start weekly seasonal service from the airline’s hub in Minneapolis/St. Paul to Montego Bay, Jamaica and Nassau in the Bahamas, starting January 2015.

Flights will be operated on Airbus A320 aircraft with 150 seats, including 12 seats in Business Class, 18 Economy Comfort seats featuring up to four inches of additional legroom and complimentary beer, wine and spirits and 120 economy seats.

OLDWICK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” of Family Guardian Insurance Company Limited (Family Guardian). Concurrently, A.M. Best has affirmed the ICR of “bbb-” of FamGuard Corporation Limited (FamGuard) [BISX:FAM] (both domiciled in Nassau, Bahamas). Family Guardian is a wholly owned subsidiary of its publicly traded parent, FamGuard. The outlook for all ratings is stable.

The rating actions for Family Guardian reflect its improving financial performance and adequate reserves specific to its investment in direct residential and commercial loans.

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NASSAU, Bahamas, September, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Morneau Shepell (TSX: MSI), the largest company in Canada offering human resources consulting and outsourcing services, today announced that it is strengthening its pension consulting business in the Caribbean and South America through a strategic hire and the establishment of Morneau Shepell (Bahamas) Ltd., based in Nassau. The company announced that it has hired Derek Osborne, a senior pension actuary and an expert in social security schemes, who has been servicing government and business clients in the Caribbean and South America for more than 15 years.

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While in New York City to address the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly on climate change, Prime Minister Perry Christie and First Lady Bernadette Christie attended a reception hosted by US President Barack Obama.

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The Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX) is pleased to announce that the Nalbra Overseas Fund Corp., the Powder Multistrategy Fund Limited, and the Rio Real Participacoes Fund Inc. have completed the BISX Mutual Fund Listing Process and have been added to the roster of funds listed on the Exchange.

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Here follows Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Urban Development Philip Davis’s contribution to the debate on The Gaming Bill:

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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 — Genting Malaysia Bhd’s indirect 70 per cent-owned unit, BB Entertainment Ltd (BBEL), is acquiring a piece of land from RAV Bahamas Ltd for US$24.6 million (RM78.6 million).

The land, measuring 6.6 hectares, is in the Bimini Islands, Bahamas.

BBEL is building a 307-key hotel on the land and it is adjacent to the Resorts World Bimini, Genting said in a filing to Bursa Malaysia here today.

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This is an excerpt from The Malay Mail as it appeared on September 12, 2014. For updates or to read the current version of this post in its entirety, please click here.

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