http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news Keep and Eye On the Bahamas News, Get Tips and Help From Experts! Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:09:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the plane was touching down in Nassau, flames were spotted near the lefthand engine. All 93 on board escaped safely. More: continued here http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/jetblue-plane-is-evacuated-in-bahamas LEAD: A Government witness in the drug trial of a reputed leader in Colombian cocaine trafficking testified Tuesday that he had been told the defendant paid $88,000 a month in protection money to Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. More: continued here http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/bahamas-leader-tied-to-drug-bribe In 1988, eight Democratic members of Congress formed a company to buy a tiny island in the Bahamas -- an old pirates' lair with pink beaches and palm trees -- with the idea of turning it into a resort. One of them was Matthew F. McHugh, the upstate New York ... http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/key-figures-in-house-bank-affair-were-partners-in-a-bahamian-land-deal The Commonwealth conference here, now in its second day, has developed into a lobbying session on South Africa, with Britain trying to persuade most of the other members that discussion is likely to be more effective than sanctions in eliminating apartheid Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher avoided the subject of South ... http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/british-resist-sanctions-against-pretoria The Federal Centers for Disease Control say that patients who received blood-derived drugs dispensed by a cancer clinic in the Bahamas were exposed to a virus associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The patients at the clinic, the Immunology Researching Center Ltd. in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, were ... http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/bahamas-clinic-used-serum-with-aids-virus-us-says Transportation Department figures show discount carriers flew 20 percent more seats in May than four year earlier, while network airlines capacity was down 16 percent; says average air fares for 1,000-mile trip declined to $116 from $147 over period; Southwest Airlines had 59 percent share of low-cost market in May, ... http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/business-travel-memo-pad Bahamas' governing party warns Robert F Kennedy Jr, a lawyer for Natural Resources Defense Council, to stay out of local dispute over luxury housing development in historic Clifton Cay More: continued here http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/bahamas-is-threatening-to-bar-a-kennedy Chief Warrant Officers David E Guido and Daniel P Riddell and Sgt William E Westgate are charged with involuntary manslaughter for taking Guido's wife, Pam, and Riddell's wife, Rebecca, for unauthorized ride on their Army helicopter, which crashed July 6 on Grand Exuma Island, Bahamas; both women were killed and ... http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/national-news-briefs-3-soldiers-are-charged-in-fatal-helicopter-crash A cache of emeralds, gold and silver found off Bimini in the Bahamas has raised the hopes of treasure hunters that they have finally located a Spanish galleon said to have sunk with a huge cargo of gold and silver coins more than 200 years ago. In an interview published ... http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/finding-raises-hopes-of-treasure-hunters US State Department clears Orlando Hernandez, one of best pitchers ever on Cuban national baseball team, Alberto Hernandez, another baseball player who is no relation to Orlando, and Noris Bosch, who Orlando Hernandez says is his girlfriend, to enter US; Orlando Hernandez and seven companions defected Cuba in small boat ... http://travel-bahamas-tips.com/bahamas-news/general-news/baseball-a-risk-for-freedom-and-baseball