Bahamas Hotel & Tourism Association

AIR Jamaica is to discontinue flights to the Bahamas, forcing Bahamians to travel through the United States to get to the wider Caribbean.

A Miami-based private equity firm that specialises in luxury, beachfront resort purchases is in negotiations to acquire the development rights to the previously proposed multi-million dollar Aman resort project on Norman's Cay in the Exumas, Tribune Business can reveal.

Hearing "Islands in the Stream" should inspire you to do more than change your radio station. Before Dolly Parton and the Bee Gees made it the centerpiece of their pop confection, the name more readily sprang to mind as the title of Ernest Hemingway's famous novel, parts of which he wrote while on Bimini, in the Bahamas, so inspired was he by the islands' fishing and diving.

The long-running legal row over the collapsed $2.6 billion joint venture between Baha Mar and Harrah's Entertainment is not over despite a New York judge ruling against the Bahamian company.