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As temperatures soar across the UK these adorable shots show a group of pigs cooling off in crystal clear water.

The fun snaps were taken by photographer Emmanuel Keller, 39, at the famous Pig Beach in the Bahamas.

This animals are found on the island of Exuma which is uninhabited by humans but takes its unofficial name due to the colony of pigs that swim off its shores.

Describing when he spotted the animals, Emmanuel said: I think they really enjoyed it playing in the water. When its hot they love to cool off in the water.

When they were swimming it looked like they were doing it pretty well.

They were all quite active and really enjoyed the attention of people. They especially liked it when they were getting food like carrots and bread.

They kept running in and out of the water.

The playful animals are known as the swimming pigs of the Bahamas, as theyre often seen frolicking in the sea around the islands.

How they originally arrived on the island is unknown as they are not native to the region and the area is uninhabited by humans.

Some speculate that they were dumped on the island by a group of sailors who intended to come back to eat them but never made the return trip.

Stars such as Wayne Rooney and Kim Kardashian have been known to visit the area.

Tragically several of the pigs were reported to have died after tourists are thought to have fed them beer and rum.

Seven of the cute creatures were found dead earlier this year.

Last week, temperatures in London and Cambridge were hotter than the Bahamas at a scorching 25c the hottest day of the year so far.

Forecasters predict the UK is to enjoy a three-month heatwave over the coming months.

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By RENALDO DORSETT

Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

HEADED into the final day of competition, Team Bahamas has positioned itself atop the point standings at the XXXII CARIFTA Swimming Championships.

The Bahamas leads the field with a combined team score of 586.5 points at the Betty Kelly-Kenning Aquatic Centre.

The defending champion, Guadeloupe, is second with 509 points, the Cayman Islands third with 469.5 points, Trinidad and Tobago fourth with 455.5 points and Barbados rounds out the top five with 409 points.

Jamaica is sixth in the standings with 374 points and last years host country Martinique is in the seventh spot with 225.5 points.

The Bahamas has been dominant on the boys side which has contributed 337 points to the total and leads the division. The girls are second in their division with 249.5 points, behind the Cayman Islands with 302.

Kevon Lockhart captured the first medal for the Bahamas on night three with a bronze in the Boys 13-14 200m Individual Medley in a time of 2:21.32 seconds.

Lilly Higgs captured the gold medal for the Bahamas in the Girls 15-17 in 2:23.11, while Albury Higgs took bronze in 2:24.93.

In the 50m Breaststroke, Zaylie-Elizabeth Thompson won silver in the Girls 11-12 in 36.12.

Davante Carey also added to his medal haul with bronze in the Boys 13-14 race in 31.54.

The Higgs sisters were back on the podium in the 50m Breast with Lilly claiming another gold medal in 32.70 and Albury with the silver in 33.96.

Izaak Bastians time of 29.39 won silver in the Boys 15-17 race.

Lockhart and Lamar Taylor finished with silver and bronze respectively in the Boys 13-14 100m Free. Lockhart finished second in 55.01 and Taylor was third in 55.41.

In the 200m Butterfly, Nigel Forbes won silver in the Boys 11-12 in 2:28.59, while Ian Pinder took gold in the Boys 13-14 in 2:17.57. Albury Higgs picked up her third individual medal of the night with bronze in her division in 2:31.85.

The 800m Free Relay produced two medals for team Bahamas. In the Boys 13-14, the team of Taylor, Carey, Lockhart and Trent Albury won silver in 8:37.09 secs. In the Girls 15-17 it was the Higgs sisters, Virginia Stamp and Brianna Nesbitt swimming to a bronze medal finish in 9:03.42 secs.

Tonights final session will be highlighted by the 400m Free, 50m Free, 100m Breast, 200m Back and 200m Free Relay.

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New York Times

Update In the Bahamas, a Long-Awaited Opening for Baha Mar Resort New York Times The development on the Nassau beachfront includes three hotel brands, 2300 rooms, a 100000-square-foot casino, and 42 restaurants and lounges. and more »

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Update In the Bahamas, a Long-Awaited Opening for Baha Mar Resort - New York Times

NASSAU, The Bahamas, Tuesday April 18, 2017 The leader of the Bahamas main opposition Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr Hubert Minnis is back in the publics glare with a vengeance, declaring hes ready to take Prime Minister Perry Christies job.

On May 10, Bahamians will go to the polls to elect a new government. And Minnis, who was missing from Parliament for the past three months, has signalled hes fired up and ready to go.

In recent weeks, critics have accused Minnis of running from the press, but he told reporters last week that nothing could be further from truth and that he has been on a serious mission.

I was not at Parliament because I was out campaigning. The FNM and my focus is to take Perry Christies job. I want his job, my colleagues want the other ministers job. So we were not running from anyone; we were campaigning, preparing ourselves for election, he said.

He [Christie] says its a sprint. Its a sprint for who? We have been moving continuously all along, its not a sprint for us.

Minnis, who was ousted as Opposition Leader by colleague Loretta Turner-Butler last December, suggested that Christie and the ruling Progressive Labour Party (PLP) would be the ones doing the sprinting to catch his party.

However, PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts has accused Dr Minnis of refusing to talk to the press and publicly debate Christie.

Its shocking and unbelievable that the man who wants to be Prime Minister turns his back on the press. Minnis has also refused to debate the man he seeks to replace, Prime Minister Perry G Christie. Clearly, the Bahamian people will draw the correct conclusion that Minnis is unprepared and not ready for the high office of Prime Minister, he charged in a statement.

A defiant Minnis hit back, saying that Roberts cannot speak for the FNM and when the party is ready to engage in a debate, it would do so.

When were ready it can be done and on our terms not on Bradley Roberts terms. But we are focused now on removing Perry Christie and the PLP and Bradley Roberts so we dont hear his voice ever again in this Bahamas, he said.

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The Caribbeans largest casino, Baha Mar Casino and Resort, has confirmed it will open its doors to the public on 21 April, following delays and a public hearing held by the Bahamas Gaming Board.

Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe announced that the company had been granted a gaming license on 4 April, just three weeks before the planned soft opening: Having thoroughly reviewed these recommendations, as well as the investigation report and all other documentation pertaining to the application, I have reached the conclusion that the application, the applicant, and its material stakeholders have all met the qualification requirements for licensing set forth in the act, and therefore have resolved to grant a gaming license (subject to appropriate conditions) to Sky Warrior Bahamas Limited and certificates of suitability to its material shareholders.

Sky Warrior Bahamas is a subsidiary of Baha Mar owner Chow Tai Fook Enterprises led by Alex Pariente and John Zaremba, both with executive gaming experience in Las Vegas and Caribbean casinos. Graeme Davis, president of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, addressed critics among the opposition party to Prime Minister Perry Christies government who have accused Baha Mars planned soft opening of being a sham due to a lack of marketing, adding that the 100,000 square-foot casino would open thoughtfully with invited, non-paying guests to ensure the experience is exceptional from day one.

Baha Mars grand opening comes after a three-and-a-half year long delay following CEO Sarkis Izmirlians decision to halt construction in the spring of 2015 due to disputes with the state-owned Chinese contractor. However, the $4.2 billion project was later seized by the Bahamian government and resold to Chow Tai Fook Enterprises against Izmirlians wishes, in an attempt to breathe new life into the tourism industry of the celebrated Cable Beach area. Chow Tai Fook Enterprises have also been issued a permit for the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar, the first of six hotels in development in what looks set to be a massive, area-invigorating project.

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FORT LAUDERDALE A marketing team from The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism (BMOT) recently used the opportunity in Los Angeles to visit the CBS studio there to record all that is exciting and new in The Bahamas, to be shared with consumers in that market.

The recorded interviews were with special emphasis on new resorts in The Bahamas, as well as cultural and heritage festivals and signature sporting events in The Islands.

The interviews are being used as commercials and are airing on AMP Radio 97 in Los Angeles, CA, through June of this year.

CBS Andrew Harlander hosted the team of Bahamas Ministry of Tourism Marketing Managers. The young executives hailed from BMOT offices across the U.S. and were in Southern California providing updates to Travel Agents at Special Trade Show/Dinner Presentations and Cultural Extravaganzas in Los Angeles and San Diego.

L-R: Marketing Managers Chrystal Bethel, New York; Andrew Harlander, CBS; Antoinette Neely, Atlanta; Larnelle Johnson, Los Angeles and Jeannie Gibson, Public Relations Manager, Plantation, Florida.

The team was led in the studio by Bahamas Public Relations Manager, Jeannie Gibson, and recordings were done by Marketing Managers, Antoinette Neely, Atlanta; Larnelle Johnson, Los Angeles and Chrystal Bethel, New York.

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New York Times

In the Bahamas, a Long-Awaited Opening for Baha Mar Resort New York Times The Bahamas resort Baha Mar has taken more than 10 years to open, but on Friday, the $4.2 billion, 1,000-acre development on a half-mile of beachfront in Nassau is expected to finally debut at least, in part. Baha Mar comprises three hotel brands ...

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From BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

In Willemstad, Curacao

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

MULTI-TALENTED Denvaughn Whymns struck gold for the Bahamas to spark day one of the 46th Flow Carifta Games that ended with six medals - two golds, three silvers and a bronze - for the country on Saturday at the Sentro Deportivo Korsou National Stadium.

Whymns opening performance followed an inspirational fourth place finish by Bryant Lowe in the under-18 boys 1,500 metres before Team Bahamas picked up the first pair of medals in the same event in the under-18 girls 400m with Megan Moss snatching the gold with Doneisha Anderson taking the bronze.

Outside the stadium, where some of the throwing events took place, Laquell Harris secured a silver medal with her toss of 50.42 metres on her fifth try in the under-18 girls shot put. Tiffany Hanna was seventh with her best of 40.74m. Fiona Richards, of Jamaica, got the gold with 54.19m and Tiara Derosa, of Bermuda, won the bronze with 47.69m.

Back in the stadium, Daehja Moss clinched the Bahamas second silver in the under-20 girls high jump and Adrian Curry was the only other competitor to medal in a final on the track in the under-18 boys 100m, in which he also took silver.

Charisma Taylor, competing in another field event final during the evening session, was fifth in the under-20 girls triple jump with a personal best of 12.62m (41ft 5in).

The night did not come to a close without its share of disappointment as Devine Parker stumbled out of the blocks and did not finish the under-18 girls 100m race.

And after they were recalled 20m into the under-20 boys sprint race, Grand Bahamian birthday boy Javan Martin did not get to celebrate the way he would have wanted as he was charged with the first of two false starts in the nights finale.

Day one brought Team Bahamas two golds, three silvers and a bronze with high aspirations for a bigger haul on day two on Easter Sunday.

Whymns, the versatile CC Sweeting student, completed the first of his three individual events in the under-18 boys division by soaring 7.31m (23ft 113/4in) in his specialty in the long jump to take the top spot on the medal dais. He collected his hardware from IAAF president Sir Sebastian Coe.

I just came into the jumps mentally prepared because I just wanted to do my best and bring the first medal for the country, Whymns said. I was just hyper and I heard the crowd and that got me excited.

What got him excited was the rhythmic sound of the Junkanoo music by the Bahamian contingent in the stands next to the long jump pit.

It even pumped up the St Augustines College pair of Anderson and Moss more as they contained the two Jamaicans in lane four and five as they ran out of third and sixth respectively in their under-18 girls 400m.

Moss, the 15-year-old sensation, led early and maintained it to take the tape in a personal best of 53.68 seconds with Anderson coming back off the final curve to power into third for the bronze, again for a personal best of 54.32 seconds.

Its really an honour and it makes me feel proud that I got a gold medal for our country, said Moss of her prized possession. It was really good, the competition was stiff, but I just had to get out in the first 200 and bring it home in the final 200.

For Anderson, the cherished bronze medal made up for her disappointing fourth place finish in the high jump final during the morning session.

The high jump and the 400 this morning was really close, but I did my best and I got a medal for my country, Anderson stressed. I got out well, maintained on the back stretch and picked it up on the curve and I went for it on the home stretch.

Anderson, 17, said she was thrilled to have been in the race with Moss as she watched her run a perfect race to get the gold.

Just shy of winning another gold was Adrian Curry in the under-18 boys 100m, clocking 10.64 seconds as he was nipped at the tape by Adell Colthrust, of Trinidad & Tobago, the winner in 10.63 seconds.

It was great to get a medal for the Bahamas, said the 15-year-old Curry, who got his first Carifta individual medal. I just focused on my race, executed like my coach told me and concentrated on my finish.

Grand Bahamian Bryant Lowe let another medal slip out of his grasp in the under-18 boys 1,500m as he did not have enough energy coming down the stretch to catch Barbados Ronaldo Rock. He had to settle for fourth in 4 minutes 12.85 seconds with team mate Ryan Bethell eighth in 4:33.43.

It was disappointing to get fourth, but I just started the 1,500 this season, so I know I have a lot to work on and a lot of potential for this race, said the 17-year-old Sunland Baptist Academy standout, whose coach Ali Rolle moved him up from the 400/800 combination to the 800/1/500.

In other events during the morning session, Acacia Astwood had to settle for seventh place in the under-18 girls shot put with a heave of 12.54 metres on her fifth attempt. Ianna Roach, of Trinidad & Tobago, won with 14.43m, Danielle Soley, of Jamaica, got the silver with 14.12m and Tamera Manette, of Martinique, was the bronze medallist with 13.86m.

In the under-18 girls high jump, Doneisha Anderson cleared 1.68m (5ft 6in) for fourth place. She cleared the first three heights 1.55m (5ft 1in), 1.60m (5ft 3in) and 1.65m (5ft 5in) - on her first attempt.

After she broke off to run the qualifying round of the 400m, she knocked down her first attempt at 1.68m and nailed the second. She missed her three attempts at 1.74m (5ft 8in).

Jamaica got gold and silver from Janique Burgher, at 1.77m, and Lamara Distin, at 1.74, respectively. Sakari Famous, of Bermuda, got the bronze with 1.68m.

Anderson ended up posting the fastest qualifying time of 55.05 seconds in winning the last of three heats. Megan Moss also advanced by winning heat one in 56.33 for the third fastest time.

On the track, Team Bahamas did not fare as well in the other 400m events.

In the under-18 boys one-lap race, Tyrell Simms was second in the second of three heats and Sherrod Corey won the third heat in 49.58. Only Corey advanced with the third fastest time, while Simms was eliminated after he was 12th.

Bradley Dormeus was fifth in the second of three heats in 48.73 in the under-20 boys quarter-mile and Lavrado Henfield was third in the last heat in 49.44, but they both missed advancing in the top eight by placing 10th and 11th respectively.

And Gabrielle Shannon was fifth in the first of two heats in 58.84 in the under-20 girls race with Quanisha Marshall coming sixth in the second heat in 57.22. They both missed advancing as Marshall was ninth and Shannon 11th overall.

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Team Bahamas continues to deliver a series of impressive performances at the XXIII CARIFTA Swimming Championships and collected 15 medals on day two of the meet at the Betty Kelly-Kenning Aquatic Centre.

The team figured prominently on the medal podium on a day which featured the 200m Freestyle, 50m Butterfly, 100 Backstroke, 400m Individual Medley and 400m Medley Relay.

The evening session began with with 200m Free and Lilly Higgs took silver in the Girls 15-17 in 2:08.12 secs. Kevon Lockhart and Lamar Taylor just missed the podium as they finished in fourth (2:04.14 secs) and fifth (2:05.56 secs). Alec Sands was also just shy of the podium, fourth in the Boys 15-17 event in 1:57.95 secs.

Nigel Forbes got the scoring started for team Bahamas in the 50m Fly with a bronze medal in the Boys 11-12. Davante Carey and Ian Pinder claimed two medals in the Boys 13-14. Carey took silver in 26.44 secs and Pinder took bronze in 26.71 secs. Izaak Bastian came up .09 secs short of another medal, with a fourth place finish in the Boys 15-17 in 25.34 secs.

Carey returned shortly thereafter to take gold in the 100m Back in 1:01.76 secs. Lockhart made it a 1-2 finish for team Bahamas and took silver in 1:03.71 secs. Virginia Stamp won her second individual medal of the meet with a silver in the Girls 15-17 event in 1:07.54 secs.

Forbes switched from the short sprints to a longer event and captured another bronze on the night, this time in the 400m Individual Medley in a time of 5:20.46 secs. Tristan Russell also took bronze in the Boys 13-14 event in 4:59.68 secs. In the Girls 15-17 race, the Higgs sisters dominated. Lilly took gold in 5:08.24 secs to edge out Albury in 5:08.38 secs.

The 400m Relays produced four medals for Team Bahamas including two golds.

Bastian, Peter Morley, Albury Miller and Alec Sands took gold in the Boys 15-17 in 3:57.90 secs while the Boys 13-14 team of Carey, Miller, Pinder and Lockhart also won their race in 4:09.98 secs.

The Girls 15-17 team of the Higgs sisters, Stamp and Jasmine Gibson, won silver in 4:41.34 secs.

In the Boys 11-12, the team of Forbes, Ishan Roy, Erald Thompson III and Jared Reckley finished third in 4:44.46 secs.

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Carifta Swimming Day Two: 15 Medals For Team Bahamas - Bahamas Tribune