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Oliver is giving up the goodies in his new play The Assistant Thief and organizers say $30 general admission tickets and $40 VIP tickets are going by the score.Ticket holders and audience members attending the production on November 19, will be automatically entered to win a trip for two to the comedian's home island of Jamaica, courtesy of sponsor Air Jamaica.
Additional sponsors for Oliver include, Capital City Marketing, Roberts Furniture & Appliance Centre, Baham-ian Springs Purified Water, Dollar Thrifty Car Rental and Village Hardware & Building Supplies.
Tickets went on sale yesterday and are available at the Juke Box in The Mall at Marathon. The Cancer Society of The Bahamas will receive a donation for each ticket purchased.
"Tickets are going faster than we anticipated," beamed Kathy Ingraham, CEO of Capital City Marketing and Event Co-ordinator for Oliver! "We've gotten lots of calls in from people who ask to reserve tickets, but if they are not picked up within 24 hours after they are ordered they may be sold.
Montego Bay murders could hurt tourism
A record number of murders in Jamaica's tourism capital have sparked complaints from tourism officials and sent law enforcement officers searching for new security measures.Police say the 150 killings here so far this year is already 15 more than all of last year, when authorities reported a record 135 murders. The previous record stood at 98 killings in 2004.
A triple murder earlier this month in the Saltspring area, less than a five minute-drive from the beach resort area that lures in more than one million tourists each year, drew cries of help from hoteliers.
Horace Peterkin, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), said the high number of murders has forced many hotel operators to cut their room rates in order to compete with other Caribbean destinations like Barbados, Antigua, the Bahamas and St.
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· More than 30 hotels, jungle lodges and eco-cottages throughout Belize are offering free rooms Dec. 3-7. The "Belize Stay Free" program is designed to introduce the Central American country to tourists. Rates usually charged at the hotels vary; a room for four at duPlooy's Jungle Lodge in western Belize's Cayo District, for example, typically rents for $145 a night, while a room at the Black Rock River Lodge, 13 miles from San Ignacio on the Macal River, starts at $110. View participating properties and obtain booking information at http://forums.btia.org/FreeStay/index.html. .No luck? Try a procreation vacation
MIAMI When Lucinda Hughes heard she would have to drink sea moss elixir while vacationing in the Bahamas, she was certain it would make her sick. Sure enough, three months later, Hughes is very sick every morning and expecting her first baby in April.She got pregnant after she and her husband went on a three-day Procreation Vacation at a resort on Grand Bahama Island.
It's part of a trend in which hotels around the world are luring couples who are trying to have a baby. Resorts are offering on-site sex doctors, romantic advice and exotic food and drink calculated to put lovers in the mood and hasten the pitter-patter of little feet.
Even some obstetricians are promoting the trend. Dr. Jason James of Miami said he often encourages couples trying to have a baby to sneak away for a few days, and he often sees it work.
Health minister to represent SKN at PANCAP meeting
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS – St. Kitts/Nevis will be represented at an upcoming meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership (PANCAP) Against HIV/AIDS to be held in Tortola, British Virgin Islands later this week.Minister of Health, Rupert Herbert and his Permanent Secretary, Elvis Newton, will be among 100 officials from the Caribbean as well as Asia, Switzerland and Germany at the 9 and 10 Nov., meeting.
Representatives from the University of the West Indies, the Red Cross, the Caribbean Council of Churches and the Red Crescent Society as well as other non-governmental local and regional organisations are also expected to attend.
.Parent hopefuls pack bags
When Lucinda Hughes heard she would have to drink sea moss elixir while vacationing in the Bahamas, she was certain it would make her sick. Sure enough, three months later, Hughes is very sick -- every morning -- and expecting her first baby in April.She got pregnant after she and her husband went on a three-day Procreation Vacation at a resort on Grand Bahama Island.
It's part of a trend in which hotels around the world are luring couples who are trying to have a baby. Resorts are offering on-site sex doctors, romantic advice and exotic food and drink calculated to put lovers in the mood and hasten the pitter-patter of little feet.
Even some obstetricians are promoting the trend. Dr. Jason James of Miami said he often encourages couples trying to have a baby to sneak away for a few days, and he often sees it work.