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• Kids Are Kings Here

Beaches is located near the Turks and Caicos' largest city -- Providenciales, or Provo for short (that's what the locals call it). Turks and Caicos is sparsely populated with a total population of only about 22,000 people. Southeast of the Bahamas in the Caribbean Sea, it's a British Overseas Territory that uses the U.S. dollar as its currency and English as its national language. There are two island groups, eight main islands and a number of smaller islands, all of them uncrowded or unpopulated. Some of the smaller islands feature private fly-in homes owned by wealthy foreigners. The climate is generally sunny and dry so the weather is favourable pretty much year-round. My son and I flew in to Provo from Winnipeg on U.S. Airways via Toronto and Charlotte N.C. It was late May but duri...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 27, 2009

• The World

...'Jaws' devoured boater. NASSAU, Bahamas -- A boater who disappeared off Jaws Beach, on an ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• September 28, 2010

• Reference re Newfoundland Continental Shelf, [1984] 1 S.C.R. 86 (1984)

... colonies: Trinidad and Tobago (1942); Bahamas (1948); Jamaica (1948); British Honduras (1950); F...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• Compass Free Travel Health Presentation

The 2009 Michelin guidebook for Las Vegas has given its top hotel rating to the Wynn Las Vegas and its top restaurant rating to Joel Robuchon at the MGM Grand hotel. Joel Robuchon's rating of three stars means Michelin considers the restaurant to have "exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey. Michelin compiles its ratings by sending anonymous inspectors to restaurants and hotels. The inspectors pay their own bills and remain unknown to the establishments in hopes of gauging a normal customer experience, the guide said. Michelin said editors and inspectors pick restaurants and hotels, which do not pay to be included in the guides.

...In the Caribbean, the top choice was the Bahamas. Copyright F.P. Canadian Newspapers Limited Partne...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 29, 2009

• Teeing It Up in Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. -- It's known today as Florida's 'first Magical Kingdom,' it changed the landscape of western Florida, helped spawn a multi-billion-dollar tourism industry and still influences our vacationing habits today. 'Plant's Palace' was a Moorish-styled sprawling resort on the western bank of the Hillsborough River. It took two years to build, the hotel covered six acres and was a quarter-mile long. The price-tag for construction was a whopping $2.5 million, with another $500,000 for furnishings. The 511 rooms were the first in Florida to be electrified. It immediately took its place as one of America's premier winter resorts. * [Toula Lyons] says: 'Golf game was not up to par so I took a lesson from Kevin Mock at the academy. He was very helpful and didn't make me feel like a bad pl...

... tourists from Port Tampa to Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica and New Orleans during the winter season....

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 24, 2009