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All Islands Of The Bahamas Will Reopen to International Boaters, Yachters and Private Aviation

NASSAU, Bahamas, June 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism & Aviation has announced the destination will begin Phase 1 of the Tourism Readiness and Recovery Plan on Monday, June 15, which welcomes international boaters, yachters and private aviation back to Bahamian shores, across all The Islands Of The Bahamas.

During Phase 1, hotels will also reopen for staff to return to work and put in place all the measures required to ensure they are ready to welcome guests at the onset of Phase 2.

Commercial airlines will also be allowed to bring in Bahamian citizens, legal residents, homeowners qualifying for economic permanent residency, or the immediate family members or significant others of any of these groups. It is anticipated that during this period of time there will be a reduced flight schedule as airlines begin adding The Bahamas to their schedules once again.

This is the first part of the strategic, phased reopening approach for the tourism sector that ensures critical health and safety protocols are being adhered to, and that the Health sector remains well equipped and ready to respond as necessary. The plan was constructed by The Bahamas Tourism Readiness and Recovery Committee, a group comprised of public and private sector partners. Allowing Phase 1 access to these smaller, special interest groups will allow a more controlled segment to test the country's new measures. The second phase will commence on July 1 with the resumption of international commercial travel.

Guidelines, Policies and Procedures for International boaters, yachters and private aviation visiting The Bahamas between June 15 June 30 are, as follows:

This June 15 tourism re-entrybuilds on and supports existing government rules and regulations, which already allow for inter-island domestic travel for Bahamian citizens and residents.

Per the direction of the Bahamas Ministry of Health, Bahamian Citizens, Residents and Homeowners Returning from CARICOM countries are not required to present a COVID-19 RT-PCR Negative (Swab) Test upon arrival. However, they remain subject to other public health measures.

Reopening of borders will continue to be monitored and guided by The Bahamas government and health officials. Reopening dates are subject to change based on COVID-19 trends, if there is a deterioration in improvement, or if government and health organizations deem these phases unsafe for residents or visitors.

The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism & Aviation believes it is an absolute baseline requirement for consumers to have a comfort level that The Bahamas is a safe and healthy destination to visit, and the ultimate goal is for that to remain the case. For more information, or to view the Tourism Readiness and Recovery Plan, please visit: http://www.bahamas.com/travelupdates.

All COVID-19 inquiries should be directed to the Ministry of Health. For questions or concerns, please call the COVID-19 hotline: 242-376-9350 (8 a.m. 8 p.m. EDT) / 242-376-9387 (8 p.m. 8 a.m. EDT).

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Marina Harvey, HALO office manager, holds one of the more than 50 dogs rescued last week from the Bahamas.(Photo: JANET BEGLEY/SPECIAL TO TCPALM)

SEBASTIAN More than 50 dogs and 18 cats rescued from the Bahamas made their way to Indian River County last week, thanks to HALO No-Kill Rescue.

The animals arrived via a charter flight from Grand Bahamas sponsored by GreaterGood.org, landing Friday morning in Fort Lauderdale. Animals were then transported by HALO volunteers in three vans, arriving by noon in Sebastian.

It went really well, said HALO Executive Director Jacque Petrone. The plane came in early and all of the dogs and cats are in really great shape. We hope to have them available for adoption quickly and their pictures will be posted in phases on our website.

The dogs and cats were rescued from the island streets by the Humane Society of Grand Bahamas, whose shelter was destroyed in August during Hurricane Dorian. The animal shelter was hit with a deadly storm surge nearly 20-feet high, with more than 5 feet of flood waters filling the building.

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More than 110 cats and dogs died in the flood, but the six staff members manning the building survived.

Just as the Grand Bahamas shelter was in the process of rebuilding, COVID-19 struck the island, with a nationwide lockdown going into effect in April. All transportation to and from the island was halted, and once again, animals began to overwhelm the island.

The shelter could not keep up with the number of puppies and kittens being born, and Bahamas law requires animals be at least six months old before theycan be flown off the island.

Not having an adequate spay and neuter program on the Bahamas is a drawback to controlling the pet population, Petrone said.

It seems the solution should be so simple, said Petrone. Were talking about an island so it should be as easy as going out into the community and getting the animals spayed and neutered.

Many of the animals Petrone rescued last week from Grand Bahamas are young- about 7 to 10 months of age. There are some older, senior dogs that will also be available for adoption once their quarantine is completed.

Although many of the rescued dogs are typical Bahamian potcakes as mixed breeds are known in the Caribbean, there are others breeds such as Pekingese, Retriever and Shih Tzu mixes that will also become available for adoption.

Im hoping if everything goes well, we can start the adoption process quickly, said Petrone. In the Bahamas, they dont vaccinate dogs for Bordetella so there could be some issues with kennel cough popping up but overall, theyre in good shape.

Anyone interested in adopting one of the rescued dogs or cats should check the HALO website http://www.halorescuefl.org for more information. As the pets become available for adoption, information and photos will be posted. The adoption center is located at 710 Jackson Street, Sebastian, just off U.S. 1. Call 772-589-7257 for more details.

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It was July 8, 1943, an hour after dawn; a time and a season for everything to be quiet and slow-moving on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. But not this morning. Frantic phone calls destroyed the drowsy, sultry calm. The largest landowner in the Bahamas, a man worth $200 million, had been found dead, and the cause was anything but natural.

Sir Harry Oakes, 68, born and raised in Maine, possessor of a Canadian gold-mine fortune and a British title, had been bludgeoned to death in the bedroom of Westbourne, his bougainvillea-adorned Nassau estate. From the looks of the crime scene, hed also been set on fire. The walls bore bloodstains. Feathers were everywhere, their source a torn pillow, although some of the wilder rumors claimed they came from a chicken, evidence of a voodoo ritual.

To deal with the shocking murder and control the soon-to-balloon scandal, an aide woke up the governor of the Bahamas. The governor just happened to be a British royal, and an infamous one at that: the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, who in 1936 gave up his throne for the woman I love, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. The couple put on a good face for the public during their five-year-long stint in the Bahamas, but privately vented about their exile to this hot little hell.

The Duke of Windsors handling of the caseor, as most would describe it, mishandling of the casewent a long way toward firmly placing the killing of Oakes in a hall of fame of tantalizing mysterious murders. Oakess son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, was swiftly arrested and tried for murder, but after a headline-saturated trial was found not guilty. No one else was ever charged, but theories on means and motives rage up to the present day. A cottage industry of books, novels and movies have tackled the case, dubbed the unsolved murder of the century in one review.

One of the reasons the 1943 crime still exerts such a powerful fascination is that this pot brims with everything. Toss away every notion, every preconception, you may have about the Bahamas in the 1940s, declares Bahamianology, a website devoted to Bahamian history. Put every idea as far away in your mind ashumanly possible. The Bahamas was, in stark reality, a seething cauldron of Nazi sympathizers, British spies, money launderers, narcotics traffickers, gambling mobsters, land swindlers, murderers and paid-for-hire assassins.

The book Murdered Midas, published in late 2019 by the Oxford-educated Canadian historian Charlotte Gray, has brought a new round of attention to the unsolved murder. In her excellent book, Gray not only crafts a carefully constructed whodunit, she takes a deep dive into Sir Harry Oakes himself, the first book to put Oakes in context as a major force in early 20th-century North American finance.

One of her motives was to establish Oakes as a person with many dimensions. In the decades since his murder, the millionaires image has become more and more loathsome. In books on the case he comes across as greedy, harsh, brutish and driven by grudges, almost suggesting he deserved his end. He wasnt likable, Gray says in an interview with DuJour. I wanted to find out why he had such a reputation.

As a young man from a middle-class family, Oakes attended medical school for two years, but left in 1898 to follow his obsession: finding gold. He spent nearly 15 years working grueling hours in territories all over the worldabstaining from alcohol, near-friendlessin pursuit of his gold rush dream before he got his break at Kirkland Lake in northern Ontario. Gray compares his single-mindedness to todays Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs.

Once hed made his fortune, Oakes chose not to expand his financial reach beyond his mines or establish himself as a cultural heavyweight like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie or the Guggenheims. He bought property and became a local benefactor in Niagara Falls and Palm Beach, Florida. But his obsession became finding a way to seal off his money from taxation. This was what propelled Oakes to the Bahamas, a country with no income tax, in 1935. He was one of the first major tax exilesnot just in the Bahamas, but anywhere, Gray says.

Real estate developer Harold Christie, a man of legendary sales talent, courted Oakes until he persuaded the richest man in the British empire to establish residency in the Bahamas, then a crown colony. A 700-island tropical archipelago 50 miles off the Florida coast, the Bahamas at the time had 70,000 residents, three-quarters of them of African descent. The economic boom fueled by running rum and other booze into the U.S. during Prohibition was over. A small white elite in Nassaunicknamed the Bay Street Boysran everything, shrugging off the poverty of most islanders.

Oakes bought a lot of property and built a golf course and an airport. He took his family with him to New Providence, a wife and five children. His favorite child seems to have been Nancy, a lively redhead. To her parents dismay, at the age of 18, Nancy married Alfred de Marigny, 32 years old and twice-divorced. According to Murdered Midas, he bore a Don Juan reputation in the Bahamas; he named his yacht Concubine and, according to persistent rumors, would drug young women before assaulting them.

De Marigny wasnt the only unsavory person living tax-free in the Bahamas in the 1930s. Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren, owner of a 700-acre island that today is known as Paradise Island, was a well-known Nazi sympathizer. Wenner-Green made deals with the Krupps and counted Hitlers No. 2, morphine addict and Luftwaffe overseer Hermann Gring, as a close friend.

Interestingly, in her book, Gray reveals little-known ties between Oakes and Nazi sympathizers forged before he moved to the Bahamas. The Oakes family had lived in Britain just long enough for the millionaire to receive his title. The sinister friendships with pro-Nazi appeasers that he made in London during the 1930s, which probably secured his baronetcymay have been a factor in his death, Gray writes.

The afternoon that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in Nassau in 1940, when Britain was fighting Germany for its very existence, the question of Nazi sympathies became pressing indeed.

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By Dr Jillian Storr

It is indeed Better in The Bahamas!

I was born an American citizen. I grew up in Grand Bahama and became a Bahamian citizen. Until the age of 17, The Bahamas was all I knew. We all aspired to go off to school in America to live the American Dream!

So I did that. Between 17 and 33 years old, I attained my degrees, became a Dentist, and worked in the private and corporate worlds. I also got married, had children, and bought a home. I lived more American dreams than many Americans had ever dreamt. I was content and comfortable for many years. I understand the desire to live in the US. I understand how things appear: the efficiency, technology, education, professionalism, cleanliness, luxury, opportunities, diversity. However, all of those things come with a price really.an actual price! One that grows.

My degrees left me with $440,226.37 of debt. With a family of 5, no amount of dentist-ing could pay off that debt while paying all of our bills, maintaining a happy marriage, feeding our children healthy food, consistently giving each other quality time, and cultivating a sound spiritual life. Even if my school debt didnt exist, the demands of work limited the time left for what was most important to us.

Stepping back and evaluating what matters, our peace takes the #1 spot. We learned that when money is the goal, everything else gets compromised no matter how diligent you think you may be. So, after 16 years of living the American dream, we made the vow to never make a decision based on the value of a dollar bill, but instead consider our peace. Is it the convenient or easy route? Nope. But for longevity and a sound mind, it is the best option for us.

Both my husband and I were living our career dreams. But that left very little time for each other and our children. Thankfully, we were able to re-adjust our lives before it took an irreversible toll on our marriage. Our love for each other outweighs our long-time love for the careers we dreamt about and achieved.

Being health conscious and admittedly a skeptic of the medical and pharmaceutical industries (yes, even as a Dentist), I believe what we eat holds the most importance for our overall health. Researching the food industry in the US, we became distrustful of what was being fed to us literally. Again, when money is the goal, everything else gets compromised even if it costs lives. People are dying exponentially from heart disease, diabetes and cancer in the US; whether you live a vegan lifestyle or choose organic meats or only eat home cooked meals is up to you, but we must agree that what we eat is a strong determinant of that outcome. My husband is vegan and I am a pescatarian transitioning to veganism living on an island, we have a bigger variety and more control over the nature of our foods.

Politics anywhere and everywhere its shady! Do I need to say it again? I will: when money is the goal, everything else gets compromised. Some countries balance better than others, but the US historically has never been the best at upholding the creed for the benefit of all. Simply put, my husband is a very dark skinned, tall, black man. The chances of him being in a position where he is disadvantaged, disrespected, or killed are higher living in the US just based on those characteristics. I refuse to accept the normalcy of having a conversation about the colour of your skin and how that will affect you negatively with my children. I grew up in The Bahamas not even knowing my own race until I was almost in high school. Speaking of school, I shouldnt have to worry about if my children might get shot dead during Science class. Thats sick! Im used to fire drills, not bomb threats or school shooting drills. US laws are deeply flawed and mental illness is a major issue. For a country that claims to be the best in the world, how does it rank as one of the most depressed?

When I left the US, selling our home, saying goodbye to wonderful friends, I was also saying goodbye to the conveniences of any and everything I wanted at my fingertips. I had become accustomed to a life of entitlement. Honestly, I was hesitant. What if its 1am and I needed to go grocery shopping? What if I needed a cute outfit at the last minute? Where would I go for my massages?..so many first world concerns! Well, almost 2 years has passed and I grocery shop between the hours 7am 9pm imagine that! I wear whatever is in my closet to that last minute event- imagine that! And guess what I found the best massage therapist on this side of the Atlantic Ocean right here in Grand Bahama! I still maintain my first world needs wax appointments, workout trainer, pedicures, and indulging the best desserts on my cheat day(s), to name a few. My point is, I am not missing out on anything!

This is my story. This is where we find peace. We co-own our business with a mission and atmosphere that allows for positive quality time with family. We date frequently, finding some of the best restaurants from Bahamian sushi spots to Italian cuisine and some of the coolest activities from scuba diving with the sharks and kayaking through the mangroves to a 4D movie theatre experience. Our children are adopting the Bahamian culture the discipline and education, the colourful music, the tropical food, the beautiful dialogue and dialect. They are getting sunburned while building sandcastles and learning to swim in our clear water turquoise beaches. They are understanding that the world is much bigger and more complexed than just one country or one point of view. They are learning to empathize with others from many walks of life, not seeing any one way the superior way. They have a fair chance at life, living with no worries, as they should.

Hurricane, pandemic, or apocalypse, I will forever choose The Bahamas!

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After weeks of closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jamaica and the Bahamas have begun welcoming back tourists and nationals, with safety protocols in place. The Bahamas is currently in Phase 1 of its reopening plan, which on Monday started allowing international boaters and yachters to enter its waters, and private charters to land.

Miami Herald reports that Bahamian citizens, legal residents, homeowners qualifying for economic permanent residency and their immediate family members were also allowed to return on commercial flights ahead of a July 1 official reopening for all international tourists.

At the moment, travelers entering the Bahamas are required to present a negative COVID-19 real-time reverse transcription polymerase-chain-reaction test, taken within 10 days of travel.

This does not apply to citizens returning from a Caribbean Community country, children under the age of two or private pilots who do not deplane, the Miami Herald said. All travelers are, nevertheless, required to complete an electronic health declaration form attravel.gov.bsahead of their departure and for any inter-island travel within the country.

The form asks questions about the travelers departure country, if they have been in contact with the virus, and if they have any symptoms, according to Travel Off Path.

From July 1, no tests or quarantine period will be requiredof travelers to the Bahamas as long as they have not been exposed to the virus or show any symptoms. However, upon landing at the airport, all travelers will undergo temperature screenings.

Our top priority has and will always be our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our residents and visitors, said Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and Aviation DirectorGeneral Joy Jibrilu.

We are putting an even greater emphasis on making sure The Bahamas is safe and clean for everyone, and look forward to once again providing travelers with the tropical experience our islands are known for.

The tourism ministrys comments come on the back of concerns that the Bahamas continue to show active transmissions of COVID-19. Data shows that 25 of the countrys 104 registered cases remain active, but this is even worse for Jamaica, which has 617 COVID-19 infections, with 187 infections that are active.

Jamaica, which began welcoming international travelers on June 15, said it had to open its borders in order to save its economy which could lose $10.3 billion, including $762.8 million in the tourism sector if it remains closed.

Tourism is our lifeblood, and with the help of international experts and a dedicated task force, weve developed protocols that allow us to safely reopen our borders, said director of tourism Donovan White.

For now, to gain entry into Jamaica, visitors must complete apre-arrival authorizationthat asks about their possible exposure to COVID-19. They will also be screened via thermal checks and symptom observation. Any visitor who shows symptoms or is ill is subject to quarantine, reports Travel Weekly.

The health protocols will be revisited every two weeks, according to officials. Jamaica is the largest of the Caribbeans tourism economies to reopen since it reported its first case of COVID-19in March. The islands tourism sector employs about 350,000 workers, contributing more than one-third of the countrys economy.

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