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Major 'Pain' suffers heartbreaking loss
The Bahamas & WBA Fede Caribe Lightweight Boxing Champion Meacher 'Major Pain' Major, suffered a tough loss this week against Edgar Santana in New York City.The referee stopped the fight, two minutes and 53 seconds into the third round, presumably to protect Major from getting seriously injur-ed.
Meacher was doing well in the fight," trainer Ray Minus Jr. said. "He won the first round, and the second was about even. Basically, I recognized his eyes were really red, and when he came to the corner - after the second round - he said that he couldn't see anything. He had a great deal of problems trying to see, and his eyes were bloodshot, and I don't know what happened," Minus said from his hotel room in Montreal, Canada on Thursday.
Minus left New York for Canada, with dual super middleweight title holder Jerma-ine 'Chu-Chu' Mackey, who is set to fight Jean Pascal ton-ight in Montreal.
Royal Oasis Plans Outlined
The chairman of the group seeking to close the deal to purchase Freeport's Royal Oasis Resort assured on Wednesday that World Investments Holdings (WIH) has the money to purchase and renovate the property, and unveiled plans to get it up and running sometime next year. .Red Rose Ball to benefit Disease Surveillance Centre
ColinaImperial's seventh annual Red Rose Ball is just days away and organizers of the already sold-out event announced yesterday that part proceeds raised from the event will go toward the erection of a Disease Surveillance Centre in Hawksbill, Grand Bahama.Noting that the Red Rose Ball is the main fund-raiser for the Grand Bahama AIDS Awareness Committee, event Chairman Odette Knowles said that is why the centre is such an appropriate initiative.
"There will be a ground-breaking ceremony on Friday, November 3, 2006 in Hawksbill on a plot of land donated by the Grand Bahama Port Authority," she shared.
Raising $40,000 with last year's event, Knowles said ColinaImperial continues to be the major fund-raiser in Grand Bahama and Nassau for the fight against HIV/AIDS in the country.
Numbers don't add up
Statistics supposedly leaked to the press on the preliminary estimates of unemployment in The Bahamas have been greeted with widespread skepticism and even suggestions that this is an attempt by the Government to try and manufacture something positive at a time when it has been rocked by a series of damaging controversies. As tempting as it may be, we do not believe that the Government would willfully doctor unemployment figures to shift the spotlight from the negative publicity that has enveloped it in the aftermath of the fight between two of its Members of Parliament and the scandal that is still evolving with regard to what has become known as the Anna Nicole Smith Affair. It simply makes no sense for the Government to take such elaborate steps to deceive the Bahamian people, for whenever the official statistics are released, they will have to include supportive evidence to show that unemployment indeed is now at the lowest it has been in 35 years, as has been claimed.