NASSAU, Bahamas -- Sunrise Beach Club and Villas on Paradise Island are pleased to introduce Regia Knowles, the newest member of the team.

Regia Knowles, events coordinator at Sunrise Beach Club and Villas, is one of the Bahamas' most creative and innovative up-and-coming event planners. Since starting events planning in January 2012, Regia has brought her considerable talents to corporate events and also weddings, birthdays and receptions. To each event she produces, Regia brings her own unique sense of style, and her knowledge of the latest industry trends, plus a great team of dynamic employees to make her clients’ dreams a reality.  

Regia graduated from The College of the Bahamas with Associates in Culinary Arts and certification in Events and Wedding Planning. Her background in the food industry makes her an even greater planner when it comes to coordination of menus and her stylistic approach to food. While working at The British Colonial Hilton, she became accustomed to the impeccable tastes and service expectations held by her customers.

In addition, to this she has assisted a baker with her business giving her an extensive knowledge of specialty desserts and in turn increased her desire to help her clients find the perfect food and beverage for their one-of-a-kind special event. Her warm personality and willingness to tackle any challenge help her contribute to Sunrise Beach Club and Villas success.

NASSAU, Bahamas --Thanks to the popularity of YouTube and social media, Sands Beer is making its video debut all around the world.

Featured in an online video ‘Knee Deep in The Bahamas’ produced by a Caribbean and island lifestyle blogger named Ryan, Sands is the opening image of the three minute video showing off the beauty of The Bahamas.  

Ryan visits different Caribbean Islands and takes photographs, videos, and notes on all of the islands while he is travelling.  The video that features SANDS was of his stay on the island of Exuma and it's surrounding cays.  Ryan decided to portray his experience in a video, with the background music of the Zac Brown Band, featuring Jimmy Buffet for their song "Knee Deep".  

As a result of the popularity of his blog, which is connected to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Pinterest, the video has received over eight million views.  

"I was thrilled when I saw the video," said brewery owner James 'Jimmy' Sands. "My son showed me the post and there was my beer featured in the opening shot!"  

Prime Minister Perry Christie and his government have been engaged in a deliberate, dishonest, deceptive and disgraceful secret campaign of confuse, divide and conquer.

They should have told the people that when it comes to online gaming, Bahamians need not apply.  

Let me make it abundantly clear that it is the considered view of the Free National Movement that Prime Minister Perry Christie and his government have been engaged in a deliberate, dishonest, deceptive and frankly, disgraceful secret campaign of confuse, divide and conquer in order to  achieve predetermined objectives on the issue of gambling. It is now clear that that agenda does not involve development and expansion of the gaming industry for the broader benefit of Bahamians—as they tried to suggest over the last year. The Prime Minister’s often-repeated statement that his government had “no horse in the race” was a lie. The reason for the scheming and conniving was to serve a much narrower constituency. The PLP government was toting water for the major hotel owners.

Bahamians who scratched their heads at the high level of incompetence displayed by the Government in the execution of the gambling referendum now have a better appreciation of the context of the apparent incompetence. While it was fairly easy to believe that Prime Minister Christie's amateurish and incompetent handling of the recent referendum was simply “classic Christie”, the recent release of the draft Gaming Act 2013 and the related Gaming Regulations 2013 suggest that even though the government did not have the nerve to tell the people what their real intentions really were, passage of the new bill and regulations was what Mr. Christie planned to do all along. They spent an entire year and over one million dollars lying to the people. They knew all along what they had planned and played the people for fools. That type of behaviour is indecent and anti-democratic.

FROM THE OFFICE OF FNM CHAIRMAN
DARRON CASH

Three parallel governments reflect a rudderless regime and a Prime Minister that is missing in action.  

Press reports within a single day—May 1, 2013—reflect a tale of three governments with no overall coordination among them.

In the first example of a minister driving off the reservation, the Minister of State for Investments, Khaalis Rolle reportedly admitted that his government's new immigration policies will "certainly" scare away foreign investors”. If that unfortunate admission wasn't bad enough, he then offered a flippant statement of assurance that when that incident “certainly” arises we will just have to "manage it the best way we can."

Minister Rolle needs a reality check. His job as Minister of Investments is to promote and maintain investor confidence and with it inflows of foreign direct investment. He has to work to prevent a loss of confidence. This means that as a minister he has to ensure that his government implements the new policy in such a way that no fear is engendered and no confidence is lost. If Minister Rolle can do nothing but utter nonsensical talk about how we will “manage” the fallout after the fact and throw his hands in the air and give up without a fight then he is an even bigger failure as a minister.