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Butler: Fix GBI identity crisis
December 29, 2014
Butler: Fix GBI identity crisis
Excessive fees facing airlines and a lingering "identity crisis" continue to cripple Grand Bahama's tourism sector, according to SkyBahamas CEO and President Randy Butler.
Speaking with Guardian Business, Butler said that procuring airlift to Freeport is not necessarily the largest problem facing the island's tourism product. He instead suggested that the island had better establish a more definit...
March 25, 2014
Former GBPA counsel: Business license delay 'most unusual'
A legal adviser to the Bahamas Marine Pilots Association has become the latest person to urge the government to intervene in the dispute between the pilots and their former Freeport employers, saying the government has "every right" to tell the Grand Bahama Port Authority that it is not properly handling the situation.
Carey Leonard, attorney with the Freeport office of Callenders and Co., said th...
August 24, 2013
Gauling Project announces new online writing workshops
Bahamian writer, performer, educator and Gaulin Project founder Helen Klonaris continues her work in the development of the writing community with two new workshops and a writing retreat.
'Writing Down the Body'
Our bodies are sites of rich and powerful stories. Some of them wet with grief or rigid with rage. Others tremble with desire or sing with delight. Everything we have lived has been experi...
Reflections from Rome
June 10, 2013
Reflections from Rome
"... the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."
- Khalil Gibran
I was fortunate to have spent this week in Rome, en route to Switzerland. During this Italian sojourn, I visited numerous prominent historical attractions that many only read about in school books, view in movies or see in tourist brochures. During my entire stay in the Italian capital, I was frequently reminded of Kha...
VAT proposal to be released this summer
May 30, 2013
VAT proposal to be released this summer
The government is powering ahead with the implementation of value-added tax (VAT) by July 2014 and claims it will pass relevant legislation by the end of this year.
Draft legislation for the much-anticipated tax, representing perhaps the most radical fiscal change in years, is now being reviewed internally.
Prime Minister Perry Christie announced during his budget communication yesterday that pu...
Distillery to buy Buena Vista from NIB
May 16, 2013
Distillery to buy Buena Vista from NIB
John Watling's Distillery is set to purchase the multimillion-dollar Buena Vista manor from the National Insurance Board (NIB) to "control its destiny".
The historic site, more than 200 years old, has traded hands many times over the centuries and remains one of the capital's most iconic buildings. Investors in the new John Watling's Distillery confirmed yesterday that they are in the process of ...
Imagination is power
April 27, 2013
Imagination is power
Chickcharney. Brer Bookie and Brer Rabbie. Lusca. Bahamian folktales have introduced us to all kinds of iconic figures, but none is more fascinating than the Gaulin. Sometimes woman, sometimes bird, the Gaulin stretches our imagination beyond the here and now.
It's no wonder Greek Bahamian writer and educator Helen Klonaris chose to name her "migratory creative inquiry program" The Gaulin Project....
April 26, 2013
New Online Workshops from the Gaulin Project for May 2013
In this 8-week online writing workshop, we?ll read published memoirs, poetry, and nonfiction that illumines the spiritual experience from diverse traditions. We?ll write weekly and discuss both craft and our spiritual journeys. We?ll work towards a rich and inspired portfolio of writings that tell your story of a personal relationship to the divine.
May Online Workshops from the Gaulin Project
April 04, 2013
May Online Workshops from the Gaulin Project
A Light Through My Window:
Writing the Spiritual Memoir
May 6-June 30
In this 8-week online writing workshop, we?ll read published memoirs, poetry, and nonfiction that illumines the spiritual experience from diverse traditions. We?ll write weekly and discuss both craft and our spiritual journeys. We?ll work towards a rich and inspired portfolio of writings that tell your story of a personal rel...
An Easter lamb that cuts the fat, keeps the flavor
March 23, 2013
An Easter lamb that cuts the fat, keeps the flavor
Ilove lamb, in every way and every cut. But I don't eat it very often because of the same thing that tends to make it so very delicious -- its fattiness.
Still, all bets are off during Easter, when I happily bow to tradition. In Easters past, I've roasted a whole leg of lamb or part of a leg, and prepared it in a Mediterranean fashion.
Trouble is, there's always so much left over. So this year I'm...
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