All posts tagged "Bahamas"

Fyre Festival co-founder Billy McFarland claims thousands of people expressed interest after he teased bringing back the event, six years after the disastrous first edition led to his fraud conviction. Originally billed as a luxury music extravaganza in the Bahamas, 2017′s Fyre Festival garnered widespread attention after attendees were given cheese sandwiches and tents to sleep in before the event was canceled. McFarland pleaded guilty to wire fraud in 2018 and was released from prison last year. Last week, McFarland tweeted Fyre Festival II is “finally happening” as a way of testing interest......

Jay Leno’s recovery from serious facial burns is no joke. The comedian appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” where the host marveled at how good Leno looks less than four months after he was badly injured in a car fire. “You’d think there’d be a zipper here, but no,” Leno joked of his face during Wednesday’s episode. “This is like a brand-new face. Only for the second time in my career am I the new face of comedy. ... That’s a brand new ear.” Leno is an avid car collector who hosts the CNBC series “Jay Leno’s Garage.” The 72-year-old spent eight days at a Southern California burn center after......

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a migrant boat carrying nearly 400 people from Haiti near an isolated island in the Bahamas, according to Bahamian officials. The Coast Guard on Sunday intercepted the 396 people near Cay Sal Bank, a remote island about 30 miles off the northern coast of Cuba, according to a statement released by the Bahamian Department of Immigration. Sources had told the Miami Herald days before that the overloaded boat was likely headed toward the Florida Keys. Several overloaded Haitian freighters packed with people leaving Haiti have shown up off the coast of the islan......

The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a migrant boat carrying nearly 400 people from Haiti near an isolated island in the Bahamas, according to Bahamian officials. The Coast Guard on Sunday intercepted the 396 people near Cay Sal Bank, a remote island about 30 miles off the northern coast of Cuba, according to a statement released by the Bahamian Department of Immigration on Sunday night. Sources had told the Miami Herald days before that the overloaded boat was likely headed toward the Florida Keys. Several overloaded Haitian freighters packed with people leaving Haiti have shown up off the coast of t......

MIAMI — When people from Haiti and Cuba take to the sea in desperation to reach U.S. shores, they often end up in the Florida Keys, arriving on overloaded or homemade vessels. Some end up in immigration custody, with their futures up in the air as they’re processed. Others need medical care for exposure or dehydration. And some don’t make it, drowning toward the end of their perilous journey across the sea, so close to their promised land. Since the new wave of migrants started nearly two years ago, the Florida Keys have felt the stresses of it all. Paramedics, hospitals, cops — the first resp......

Washington (AFP) - Tropical Storm Nicole slowed after making landfall in the US state of Florida, meteorologists said Thursday, with high winds raising concerns that a long-delayed NASA rocket launch could be disrupted. The storm, a rare occurrence this late in the year, sparked mandatory evacuation orders just weeks after Florida was battered by Hurricane Ian. But just an hour after Nicole made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane it was downgraded to a Tropical Storm, the US-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a statement Thursday at 0900 GMT. The NHC said Nicole was packing sustaine......