The responsibility of management and operation of airports throughout the country is about change, falling under the auspices of the forthcoming Airport Authority, the government announced at the end of this week.
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Pictured: (left to right) Michael Guy, second secretary, Embassy of The Bahamas London; Anuja De Silva, manager (interim), Commonwealth Small States Office, Geneva; Tia Hanna, financial and trade officer, Ministry of Financial Services; and Rita Kaufmann, financial and trade officer, Ministry of Financial Services at the Commonwealth Small States Office in Geneva. (Photo courtesy Embassy of The Bahamas, London)

Government and diplomatic representatives from The Bahamas are attending the 26th Geneva Week at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, which runs April 29-May 3.

Rita Kaufmann, financial and trade officer, Ministry of Financial Services, and Michael Guy, second secretary, Embassy of The Bahamas London, have been at the week-long conference.

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Music stars from the world of gospel are in The Bahamas this weekend for the Radio One, One Love Getaway.
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BALTIMORE, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Port of Baltimore today welcomed Royal Caribbean International’s Grandeur of the Seas to Maryland, where she replaces Enchantment of the Seas and offers six-, to 10-night cruises year-round to Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Eastern and Western Caribbean, as well as Canada and New England. Originally deployed in Baltimore from 2004 to 2009, Grandeur of the Seas was welcomed back today with a special proclamation from Governor Martin O’Malley, who declared May 3, 2013 as ‘Royal Caribbean Cruise Day’ in Maryland.

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MIAMI, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — On October 24th and 25th Latin Markets will gather more than 400 private bankers, high net worth individuals and family offices from the Latin American Private Wealth Management community at the JW Marriott Hotel in Miami.

The annual Private Wealth Latin America & The Caribbean Forum will feature discussions of wealth management, asset allocation, best practices in platform selection and technology, wealth protection strategies through estate planning, tax and trusts. Forum attendees will be able to uncover difficult to reach family offices and understand where industry growth is taking place during 10 hours of valuable networking opportunities with delegates from the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, The Bahamas, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands. Over eighty speakers from the region’s largest wealth managers, private banks, family offices, HNWIs, the asset management, technology and law communities will be in attendance.

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VANCOUVER, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP)(TSX: BLD) today announced that more than 270 of the Company’s ElectraGen™ fuel cell backup power systems have now been deployed in 16 Caribbean and Latin American (CALA) telecom networks. All of these commercial deployments leverage systems that utilize liquid methanol fuel, a readily available and abundant feedstock in the region.

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PORT CANAVERAL, Florida – The Canaveral Port Authority hosted about 100 community leaders aboard Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas for the traditional Plaque and Key Ceremony on yesterday to welcome the ship to its new homeport at Port Canaveral.

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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (May 2, 2013) – Georgette Rolle is coming home to make her LPGA debut on the same tract of land where she learned to play and to love the game of golf.

A native of Nassau, Rolle, 28, has been awarded a sponsor exemption into the inaugural $1.3 million Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic scheduled for May 23-26 at the Ocean Club at Atlantis Resort. A professional golfer since 2008, the former Texas Southern University player has competed on the Symetra Tour, the LPGA’s developmental circuit, but now she is stepping up to the major leagues, and she’s eager to see how her game stacks up.

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The Ministry of Tourism (MOT) continues to diversify its tourism product with a new focus on fly-fishing as a valuable component of the sector, according to Ministry officials.

Figures provided by MOT indicate that the fly-fishing industry is worth around $140 million a year to the Bahamian economy.

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