Sentences with phrase «day as the island»

I highly recommend visiting early in the day as the island gets packed.

President Trump on Tuesday approved an order to reimburse Puerto Rico during the first 180 days as the island struggles to deal with the aftermath and destruction of Hurricane Maria.

Not exact matches

Known for its long stretches of white sandy beach, Negril is one of the island's hot spots, as is the area's not - so - creatively - named Seven Mile Beach; by day, revelers sip on rum punch and frolic in the warm waters, and my night they drink more rum punch and dance to live reggae bands and steel drum performances.

Nyepi, a Hindu celebration primarily celebrated in the Indonesian island calls for a day of silence on March 28 and is marked as time for self - reflection.

If all that sounds like the opposite of your perfect day, there are plenty of opportunities to escape the crowds — two ships docking simultaneously at CocoCay can deposit as many as 10,000 travelers on the little island.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visits the holiday island in northern Greece on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 where a state of emergency has been declared as a forest fire burns out of control for a third day, gutting homes and small farms.

Goose Island, a Chicago - based brewer that was purchased by Anheuser - Busch in 2011, continues to think of itself as a craft brewer to this day.

Some parents and teachers were angered and confused last hurricane season, as the Space Coast braced for a direct hit from Hurricane Matthew, when the district held classes the day of evacuations for the barrier islands.

There is as much evidence for the Native American creationist beliefs involving Spider Grandmother & Turtle Island as there are for the Christian ideas of 6 days, 6000 yrs ago.

The call for prayer comes as the second major category five storm to hit the Caribbean this month - Hurricane Maria - has battered the island of Dominica and is likely to hit Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands in the next day or so.

Almost two million people call the 13 - mile - long island home, as many as 5 million can commute into the city every day and over 40 million tourists visit every year.

You can see it Ernest Thompson Seton's Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned, or Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, or R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island.

While every week day was taken up with studying the vervet monkeys that roam this small Caribbean island, every weekend was spent, as you might imagine, at the beach.

As I doubt I have any talent for lobstering (the primary profession among citizens of Swans Island), I think I'd build a little pie shop next door to the general store and live out my days wearing cute aprons, rolling dough, and serving warm slices of local berry pie a la mode.

And Necker Island, host to guests such as Princess Di and Oprah Winfrey, is available for around $ 10,000 a day; a testament to the unbelievable beauty of the BVI.

Although Cajun territory is not large, and much can be seen in 3 to 5 days, all the attractions and restaurants can take months to cover and there are overlaps between the two (such as tours of the Konriko and Crystal Rice Plants or the Tabasco Factory and botanical gardens on Avery Island).

Last Sept. 18, when Hurricane Fifi came bellowing up the channel between the Bay Islands and the mainland with winds of 120 to 140 mph, the Roatànians simply rode out the storm as their ancestors have been doing since the days of Morgan.

From his Parris Island days, Bull Cyclone borrowed the idea of an obstacle course, adding a wrinkle of his own — a trip wire in the tall grass that the managers yanked as the weary players came through.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

The PSA Academies team, led by Philippe Saint Andre also included coaches Jermome Riondet (leading French Rugby journalist and ex-Harlequins, FC Grenoble & Oxford University Blue, the first Frenchman to play in the Varsity Match), Florian Rossigneux (ex-Racing, Sydney University, London Wasps, Bedford & Richmond player and Rugby Canada & Rosslyn Park coach), Jules Di Tomaso and Cory Brown were welcomed by host Olivier Baudin as they arrived for the 10 day programme at Fort de France airport on the west coast of the island.

Rumour has it, that on one memorable day he was informed by a reporter that the European club they were going to play had a centre forward who was the most deadly header of the ball in the business, «Don't you worry young man says Cloughie, we have a secret weapon, a young man from a pacific island, he is 7» 3» cant kick for toffees but makes his living heading and cracking coconuts as they fall from the tree, how's your man going to deal with that» says Brian and walks of laughing.

As Cheryl Fundakowski of Island Lake, Illinois learned, newborns only a eat a little at a time, so expect many, many feedings each day and night.

I've wanted to visit Venice for as long as I can remember so when the opportunity arose to spend a couple of days there ahead of my press trip through the Med on Island Princess *, it was too good to miss - Mr TS booked us two nights in a...

She has been featured on Good Morning America, Good Day LA, The Insider, News12 Long Island and Martha Stewart Radio as well as in Parenting Magazine, Fit Pregnancy Magazine, The Bump and the NY Daily News.

We were grateful to enjoy time at two top Wailea resorts with a day visit to a property where we stayed for our babymoon... it was during this trip that we fell in love with the island and was one of the best vacations we had as a couple.

That wretched tradition has continued down through the foundation of Irish Republicanism by those who regarded their own Protestant and «Saxon» nation as the only true one on the Irish island, through anti-monarchist attitudes to Australian Aborigines from the Victorian Period to the present day, through Hendrik Verwoerd and Ian Smith, through attempts to abrogate the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand, and through the patriation of the Canadian Constitution against the wishes, both of the Aboriginal peoples to whom the Crown had numerous treaty obligations, and of the government of Quebec.

Students of a Long Island middle and high school are now required to wear clear backpacks on campus as part of a new safety measure in the wake of the Valentine's Day mass shooting that left 17 dead in Florida.

In the closing days of two key battleground races on Long Island, Democrats in the state Senate have released mailers depicting incumbent Republican lawmakers as part of an overall corruption epidemic.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed Trump on Twitter as «pathetic» a day after the president used the same word to take a veiled swipe at him while speaking to law enforcement on Long Island.

If the intra-party warfare is still going on by the state's presidential primary date of April 19, it could be good for the GOP as it battles to retain former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat on Long Island in a special election that will also take place on that day.

Advocates rallied at Foley Square in Manhattan as part of a nationwide «Day of Action» to demand that the U.S. government approve more aid for the heavily damaged island.

Newsday columnist Joye Brown spoke with News 12 Long Island following another day in court as Harendra Singh took the stand for the fourth day in Central Islip to detail the perks he showered on officials in exchange for their help in arranging millions of dollars in indirect loan guarantees for his town - connected businesses.

Speaking at a City Hall press conference with fellow Staten Island Republican and Council Member Joe Borelli, Malliotakis pledged to appoint a commission within 60 days of taking office, with a goal of producing changes to the complex property tax system in the City that's widely viewed as uneven and inequitable.

Cuomo was back in New York after a day trip to the island to bring more aid, including bottled water and filtration units, as well as escort State Police officers back home after two weeks in Puerto Rico helping with recovery.

Students of a Long Island middle and high school are now required to wear clear backpacks on campus as part of a new safety measure in the wake of the Valentine's Day mass shooting that left 17 dead in Florida, an official confirmed to The Post.

In all, Mr. Ickes, a longtime contributor to Mr. de Blasio, acted as the intermediary for $ 19,250 in donations in the four days leading up to the announcement that A.E.G. could bring its festival to Randalls Island.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

Nathan Berger, the Long Island coordinator for the Justice for Farmworkers Rural Migrant Ministry, says they are seeking an eight - hour day, overtime, and one guaranteed day off per week, as farm workers are exempt from many state labor laws.

Before this year, I hadn't used public transportation regularly as part of my commute since my Boston days — six years ago, back before I moved to Long Island.

At 10:30 a.m., U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson participates in special naturalization ceremony at Ellis Island for 62 citizenship candidates from 39 countries, held in honor of Memorial Day and as one of 100 naturalization ceremonies held in national parks this year in honor of the National Park Service's 100th anniversary.

The endorsement from Gillibrand comes the same day as Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to stump for Democrats running in key Senate races on Long Island — a major battleground that could sway control of the narrowly divided chamber this election cycle.

As London mayor, there were the vanity projects - the «dangleway to nowhere» cablecar, the thankfully never - built Boris airport island - but when the capital needed its mayor during the 2011 riots, he took three days to return from his holiday.

Cuomo himself in recent days has called for a series of criminal justice reforms as well as new police training following a Staten Island grand jury not issuing an indictment against Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Long Island appeared on the threshold of cementing its place as the epicenter of the opt - out movement statewide, with tens of thousands of students refusing to take the state's English language arts exam on the first day of Common Core testing, a Newsday survey showed.

Staten Island's Groundhog Day celebration, held for 35 years, may have been the highest - profile appearance for Kathy Hochul in her yearlong tenure as lieutenant governor.

Just days after the charges against the three executives were filed last September, LPCiminelli was fired as construction manager by the developer of a Staten Island outlet - mall.

On the same day as upstate protests, UFT members on March 24 picketed the offices of Republican senators Andrew Lanza on Staten Island and Marty Golden in Bay Ridge to tell them that our public schools — not wealthy charter chains — need their support.

«Today is a historic day, as we are yet one step closer to closing Rikers Island,» Johnson (D - Manhattan) said.

As Staten Island Zoo General Curator Peter Laline looks on, Mayor Bloomberg and Staten Island Chuck make nice during last year's Groundhog Day festivities.

Almost two years to the day after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, a top lieutenant to Rev. Al Sharpton ripped into Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito as obstacles to cause of police reform.