Sentences with phrase «visit to the islands in»

Ortega was also instrumental in coordinating Pope John Paul II's historic visit to the island in 1998 when crowds of adoring Cubans turned out to see the first pope come to their country.

He detailed how the company came to offer small - group adventure tours in Haiti in 2015 following a personal visit to the island in 2010 after the devastating earthquake there.

After a visit to the islands in 1946, Thomas Vint, Chief Landscape Architect for the NPS, was so impressed with the ocean life and underwater world of the islands he recommended that the monument should extend offshore to protect the underwater life.

Charles Darwin ground breaking visit to the Islands in 1835 helped to put the islands on the map.

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But Eric had fond memories of visiting Orcas Island, so when he was living in Delaware and got a call from a relative to come out for a construction job, he was enticed to go back.

This idea was driven home to me a year ago, when one of my publishers came to visit me on Necker Island, which is in the British Virgin Islands.

The Caribbean economy has been in a slump for several years, affected by the global financial crisis, which caused a slowdown in tourist visits to regions like the Cayman Islands, Barbados and the Bahamas.

And though the country remains a dumping ground for many refuge - seekers, it is now focused on legitimate enterprises, including tourism, making it far easier to get a visa — the island's airline arranged mine, and I finally visited in 2011.

Visitors to the island must fit one of 12 criteria, including travel to visit family, conduct journalism, perform humanitarian work, or participate in an educational tour.

Obama's visit in March 2016 had left Cuban leaders ambivalent about the hand of friendship he extended: Fidel Castro, ailing and almost 90, stirred from his retirement to attack the American president's «syrupy words,» and what he saw as an insidious plea for Cubans to forget the Americans» dark history with the island.

Upon visiting Puerto Rico in the wake of the hurricane, US President Donald Trump announced that he planned to eliminate the island's bond debt.

Upon visiting Puerto Rico in the wake of the hurricane, US President Donald Trump announced that he planned to eliminate the island ’s

At the very least, they might have noticed that Mr. Trump isn't showing the same level of concern for hurricane damage in their island as he did for earlier damage to Texas and Florida, both of which he had visited by this point.

Mr. Atwal is the Sikh extremist who served prison time in Canada for attempting to murder a visiting Indian cabinet minister on Vancouver Island in 1986.

That prompted President Donald Trump to claim Tuesday on his visit to the island that it wasn't a «real catastrophe» like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, which had close to 2,000 deaths.

«We are heartbroken to see the devastation that Hurricanes Irma and Maria have inflicted on the Florida Keys and several Caribbean islands, where our ships have been visiting since the beginning of our 50 years in business,» said Frank Del Rio, President and Chief Executive Officer of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. «The Caribbean is part of our family, and we are grateful to work with All Hands Volunteers and Happy Hearts Fund to create the Hope Starts Here hurricane relief program and do our part in giving back to these destinations.

By the year 1651 a sufficient number of Baptists were located in Massachusetts to merit a visit of fellow Rhode Island Baptists.

There are also reports from the island of Halmahera in North Maluku of Christian militia training to fight Muslims.Last week Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in Geneva, called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to make an immediate, investigative visit to the Maluku islands.

Their one - day visit to Penang, which was originally named «Prince of Wales Island», began with a trip to St George's Church, which, having been built in 1818, makes it the oldest Anglican church in Southeast Asia.

It is not clear what role, if any, Ortega may have played in such reforms, but observers say the pope's visit is expected to bolster further the cardinal's influence across the island.

When a group of journalists and mission executives visited the tiny island of St. Lucia in 1988, Rickey Singh, a Caribbean journalist who edited the Caribbean Council of Churches» newspaper Caribbean Contact, greeted them with the words, «Welcome to the media - penetrated region in the world.»

To cope with the stresses of this life, Dr. Emmert compensates in charming fashion: «To help keep calm, Dr. Emmert meditates and visits his home on Whidbey Island in Washington.

I hung out in Naples on the way to and from the island of Ischia, and on both visits, I filled my happy face at Ciro Oliva Concettina ai Tre Santi, a cosy little pizzeria in central Naples.

My husband LOVE»S it and so many stories he and his bestie from college tell start with «that one time we were drinking goose island...» he loves it so much in fact that my father - in - law made a side trip to pick some up last year while visiting C's grandparents.

«Judging from observations made during my brief visit to this portion of the island, east of Dunga, the chillie cultivation struck me as being of a very scattered nature, generally small isolated patches from half to one or two acres in extent, and combined with tobacco, tomato, pumpkins, etc..

If you want to taste it before deciding to prepare it or not, please visit Zomick's Bakery in Cedarhurst, Long Island and enjoy the beautiful bakery goods they offer to their clients.

checked your «about me» and it all became clear... I too am from the west coast (the island... first Duncan / Maple Bay and later Victoria)... I left Canada in the late 80s and, like you, made my way to London (where I met my Italian hubby)... son born in early 90s and we moved to Wells, then later Bath and then even later Italy (happily based here in northern Italy since 2001) and the cracker in all this is that aforementioned son (now 20) is, as I type, in Cork visiting his (Italian) girlfriend - who is living and working there... howzat???!!!! (He says there is a great vegan restaurant in Cork!)

It was the same price as staying in a hotel, and being on a boat allowed us to visit a few different islands.

If you ever visit Thailand, and you go from island to island, you will definitely notice that Phi Phi is a step up in a lot of facets over the other islands.

I have been lucky enough to visit beaches in different parts of Florida, Mexico, the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and San Diego.

We can't wait to go back — it was great fun, catered for children brilliantly (in fact all of Hawaii was great for kids — we visited three islands), and was relaxing.

Her awards include Fellowship in the American College of Nurse - Midwives and the American Academy of Nursing, the Lamaze International Research Award to the ACNM Optimality Working Group, the Margretta Madden Styles Award for Excellence in Nursing, the Rhode Island State Nurses Association President's Award for Service to Nursing, a Governor's Citation for Service to the State of Rhode Island, and the Irving Harris Visiting Professorship at the University of Illinois - Chicago.

There are primarily six major islands to visit in Hawaii: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and Hawaii's Big island.

Guided by a visiting teacher naturalist in the classroom, students will use bird puppets to experience how natural selection works as they try to survive with their adaptations in the island environments available to them.

«In visiting wildlife sanctuaries from the Cape and Islands to the Berkshires, service members and their children are able to make their own connections with nature and bring home some great memories.»

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...

Her international trips include many visits to Costa Rica, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands, as well as the Amazon Basin in Peru.

We visited the Andaman Islands in January to celebrate Nemit's 2nd birthday.

We plan to visit the James Island County Park in Charleston, SC (where we live) to see the Holiday Festival of Lights!!

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.

He managed to squeeze in three separate visits, stopping for Welsh cakes and tea at the Dyffryn Gardens in the marginal seat of Vale of Glamorgan, then moving on to Brains Brewery in Cardiff, before finally taking a detour to Barry Island (and a quick vanilla ice cream and selfies with holidaying families).

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan paid a visit to the Capitol earlier today, and not only refused to discuss a gubernatorial endorsement, but also declined to reveal who he would vote for in November for fear of having that misinterpreted as an endorsement.

The recent visit to Beijing by the U.S. secretary of defense, Leon Panetta — which coincided with State Department statements that the U.S. - Japan security treaty would apply to the disputed Senkaku Islands — highlights the growing tension with China over America's military presence in Asia, Chinese efforts to counteract it, and the dangerous misperceptions that can arise if defense strategy gets in the way of diplomacy.

Cuomo visited Puerto Rico in September to show solidarity with the island's financially struggling government and to help with health policy.

Phillips told The New York Times that instances in which de Blasio used a helicopter include a trip to Rikers Island, to a hospital to visit injured firefighters and to Hofstra University for last month's presidential debate.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited an apartment complex under construction in Long Island City Monday to announce what he called a step in the right direction: an 18 percent drop in construction accidents citywide from 2010 - 11.

The volunteers, a man and a woman in their early 20s, were visiting stores along Francis Lewis Boulevard at the Cross Island Parkway to pass out campaign fliers for Kim, a Democrat and a Korean American, when a group of young men sitting on a stoop yelled anti-Asian comments at them, said Michael Tobman, Kim's spokesman.

I was visiting family and found myself sitting alone in their driveway, my wife and children having already evacuated the car, listening to Ed on Desert Island Discs.

Cuomo's trip to Puerto Rico comes after he's previously visited the island, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands, in the aftermath of a damaging storm that knocked out power for most of its residents.

In a letter addressed to the Governor of Lagos State at the time, Babatunde Fashola, Mohammed also advised Jonathan to postpone his visit all together because the date clashed with the national convention of the ACN billed for the Onikan Stadium, Lagos Island.