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Guest Name: Andrew Skinner <skinnns@ntlworld.com>
Country: UK, City: Lincoln
How many times have you visited Maldives? 1
Do you plan to visit Maldives? Yes
Comments: Just the best holiday we could ask for, we will return soon

Tuesday, January 08, 2002 at 07:43:08 (MST)

Guest Name: Barbara <barbarastuart@farming.co.uk>
Country: england, City: york
How many times have you visited Maldives? 1
Do you plan to visit Maldives? Yes
Comments: Stuart & I have just returned from a fortnight in Meeru, where we have done our first diving. We did the discover scuba and went on to do the open water course. The staff at Ocean pro were brilliant, very helpful and encouraging, with special mention of Tom, our instructor, who was great. We finished our course and did and extra 3 dives, making it 8 open water dives in all. What a fabulous experience, I can't wait to have another go. The dive sites around Meeru are fantastic, although of course I have nothing to compare them with, and we saw some amazing things, including sharks, eagle rays, moray eels, napoleons, turtles, sting rays, tuna, sweetlips, parrotfish, triggerfish, etc etc etc. Meeru island is fantastic, very casual and natural, and I deffinitley want to go back there before too long.

Monday, November 12, 2001 at 09:34:06 (MST)

Guest Name: Sam Hughes <DAVIDEMLYN @aol.com>
Country: Engald, City: Telford
How many times have you visited Maldives? 2
Do you plan to visit Maldives? Yes
Comments: Hi me and my partner first visited kuramathi blue lagoon in september 1999 we returned last october with our friends and will be there again in 3 weeks time this time with my partners grandmother we love the maldives and kuramathi blue lagoon the staff are so friendly and nothing is too much trouble. The maldives is the perfect get away to just relax and take it easy

Sunday, September 02, 2001 at 08:20:34 (MDT)

Guest Name: Amy and Mark Thorp
Country: England, City: Hertfordshire
How many times have you visited Maldives? 1
Do you plan to visit Maldives? Yes
Comments: The best holiday we have ever had. Still dreaming about it and hoping to return soon.

Friday, August 17, 2001 at 12:14:22 (MDT)

Guest Name: Chris Lawson <zanzibar101@hotmail.com>
Country: USA, City: Goldsboro, North Carolina
How many times have you visited Maldives? Never
Do you plan to visit Maldives? Yes
Comments: Dear Aqua Sun Maldives- Destination Maldives c/o Add to our Guestbook This e-mail is about helping us create a new Little Arabia community right here in Goldsboro, North Carolina. It is growing very fast... For the Arabian Community to invest and help us build and create a Little Arabia Community here in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Many Arabian families are moving in and bringing a little bit of their culture. Soon we will have the 1st Annual Wayne County, North Carolina Arabian Festival in (Goldsboro, North Carolina) Pass this e-mail to every Maldivian Website on the Internet! This e-mail will be very helpful for the Maldivian people and US! Your Maldivian Businesses & Maldivian Cultural Centers will do great here!! If you know any who is interested in restoring a syangogue call (919)-734-1111 (Look for the extension for David Weil, Weil Enterprises) or e-mail ahleder@earthlink.net which is Mr. Arnold Leder. This is a historical synagogue and is the 2nd oldest synagogue in our state of North Carolina. It was built in 1886. If you know any Maldivian Jews who would be interested, please contact these 2 people!! APV Baker a big industry in Wayne County, NC might go out of business here. If you know any in Maldives who are interested in working at APV Baker, here is the following information Main Office 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC (919)-735-4570 Personnel 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC (919)-736-4573 Receiving 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC (919)-736-4537 Shipping 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC (919)-736-4309 The following information will be very helpful for the Maldivian people and US!! Here are a list websites that will be very helpful for the Maldivian people: http://www.ci.goldsboro.nc.us/ http://www.waynehealth.org/ http://www.esn.net/ http://www.goldsboro.net/ http://www.newsargus.com/ http://www.newsargus.com/classifieds/index.html/ http://www.esn.net/pacc10/index.html/ http://www.goldsboro.com/ http://www.bytebackinc.com/ http://www.esn.net/hart/ http://www.hbsystems.com/ http://www.samirsystems.com/ http://www.goldsboroonline.com/ http://www.waynecountyedc.org/ http://www.dgdc.org/ http://www.esn.net/waynecounty/ http://www.seymourjohnson.af.mil/ Also with Wayne Community College they also have base classes too if interested!! They also have a great list of jobs available at the base, ACTION temporaries Goldsboro 2419 E. Ash Street P.O. Box 1312 Goldsboro, NC 27533 (919)-734-2111 1-800-344-TEMP Goldsboro Office Availability Line (919)-734-2168. Please call and leave your name and phone number each day you are available for an assignment! Goldsboro Flea Market Information 2102 Wayne Memorial Dr Goldsboro (919)-735-6505 Office (919)-736-4422 or Toll Free Dial 1 Then 800-282-3532 Berkeley Mall Goldsboro's Mall Mall Management Office at (919)-778-4616 or FAX (919)-778-8556 & the Downtown Flea Market & Auction 217 N Center St Goldsboro call them at (919)-734-0641 Many of the Arabs here are from Yemen, and Lebanon, and other Arab nations!! There is a girl I know at my Wayne Community College who is Gujarati and misses her Gujarati Culture & Gujarati Heritage..Maybe you can help us.. In fact most of the Arabian families own most of the businesses on William Street and Slocumb Street. There will soon be a Little Arabia District!! I am a dreamer! There are also a lot of Hawaiians here in Goldsboro, North Carolina too!! There are a few Pakistani, Palestinian, Armenian, Turkish, Persian, etc. Maybe you can help us. We would love to learn about Maldivian Culture & Heritage..There use to be a Lebanese/Syrian Club here in Goldsboro, North Carolina because of so many coming here, maybe in the future it will open up again!! There is also a Egyptian Coptic family here who also miss their culture and heritage. There is a Armenian who has been here in Goldsboro, North Carolina who owns a frame and art shop, and has been here for 20 years and was voted the best in Wayne County, North Carolina. Bring some more Maldivian Businesses & Maldivian Cultural Centers, I know there are a lot of Armenians in Asia. Tell them about him! His phone number is (919)-735-9128! Also there are a few Greek familes here in Goldsboro, North Carolina who miss their culture and heritage. Maybe you can help us..But I miss Maldivian Culture & Maldivian Heritage. Are there any Armenians in Maldives?? There are a lot of Chinese families here in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Majority are from Hong Kong and mainland China, up to 150 families and still growing. Many miss their Chinese culture and heritage. Maybe you can help us.. Your Maldivian Businesses will do excellent here and along with Maldivian Cultural Centers, and people will learn and enjoy as well...I can already see a Little Hong Kong Section here in Goldsboro and even Little Chinatown or Little Maldives!! There are a lot of families from Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and a Sikh family also a Parsi lady here in Goldsboro, North Carolina! People do not know how to fun! Your Maldivian music is beautiful!! There are a few Hispanic families from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean familes here in Goldsboro, North Carolina.. I have some more important information that will be very helpful for the Maldivian people! I live the subdivision of Deerwood here in Wayne County, North Carolina USA! We have some houses for sale and a spot of land for sale here in Deerwood, here is the list: (919)-751-1942; (919)-778-4139 & (919)-778-3300 These 3 phone numbers are houses for sale in the subdivision of Deerwood. The last phone number is land for sale here in Deerwood, here is that phone number (919)-751-8550! I have two more important websites for houses for sale here in Wayne County, North Carolina. Enjoy... Thank you and I wish the Maldivian people good luck here in Wayne County, North Carolina in the wonderful U.S.A.!! I am writing from Goldsboro, North Carolina in! the United States of America. I have some websites that will be very helpful for the Maldivian people of and US!! Here is the list: (This organization does business with thousands of international companies around the globe. Many have been very successful in boosting our economy and bringing excellent jobs for workers! Your Maldivian businesses will do excellent here). The other website is This organization helps restore old buildings in our downtown area, you can invest in this property and use it for Maldivian businesses & Maldivian Cultural Centers too!). Your Maldivian businesses & Maldivian Cultural Centers will do excellent here and people will learn and finally enjoy life once again. We would like to learn about Maldives's history, languages, religions, foods, dances, etc. Also I have a few more websites that will be very helpful for the Maldivian people and US! Here is the list: This website has excellent choices for jobs and employment services. The other website is: (We need well-educated doctors and nurses in every medical field!) & www.carolinaturkey.com Their phone number should be on the website. Thank you and your people shall do excellent here. Chris P.S. Write back as soon as possible!! Also I have another important address that will be helpful for the Maldivian people: Chamber of Commerce of Wayne County 308 N. William St. P.O. Box 1107 Goldsboro, NC 27533 (919)-734-2241 Fax: (919)-734-2247 e-mail:johnp@waynecountychamber.com John S. Peacock, Pres. I have one last website that will also be helpful: & one last one: I have a very important article that will be very helpful for the Maldivian people and us! Here is the article: Updated on Sunday, January 14, 2001 12:04:35 AM. Wayne needs more industry sites, EDC told ATLANTIC BEACH -- Wayne County is running out of products to sell in the fast-paced, competitive game of industry recruitment, consultants say. And it's time to build up the inventory. The products are industrial sites -- land and vacant buildings the county can use to attract companies. "You need sites in a hurry," said consultant Robin Spinks of Greenfield Associates. "There is very little product in your inventory right now." Ms. Spinks and Mary Lilley of Greenfield Associates in Wrightsville Beach have been taking stock of potential industrial sites in Wayne County under a $10,000 study commissioned by the Economic Development Commission. The consultants, who are often hired by companies to find sites, presented their preliminary findings during an EDC retreat Friday. The weekend retreat was the first one by the EDC in three years. It was held at Atlantic Beach, with 27 government, education and business leaders in Wayne County attending. The consultants recommended that the county! prepare four types of sites to attract companies: one with 500 or more acres, one with 100 to 500 acres, one with 50 to 100 acres and several sites of 5 to 50 acres. The consultants found nine potential sites, all of which are vacant land: Two are in northwestern Wayne, one with about 500 acres and another with about 200 acres. One is south of Pikeville with about 350 acres. Three are west of Goldsboro, ranging in size from 100 to 250 acres. One is at Grantham with about 375 acres. One is between Goldsboro and Mount Olive with about 130 acres. And one is south of Mount Olive with about 100 acres. The exact locations were not revealed to the public, because the study is still under way. No property owners have been contacted, and neither the EDC nor the county commissioners have decided to act on the recommendations. But those attending the retreat seemed receptive to the idea. The sites would serve as alternatives to ParkEast ! Business and Industrial Park off Martin Luther King Expressway. Economic leaders say different types of property are needed to attract companies that are not interested in being in an industrial park or that may want to be in a park that has fewer restrictions than ParkEast. The sites could become industrial parks, or they could stand alone. "Economic development is selling," Ms. Lilley said. "You are selling product, and your product is your site." The message of having industrial sites isn't new to EDC members, who have been told the same thing over and over by state officials and by visiting company representatives. But the problem comes with finding land suitable for industrial development and getting the amount of investment needed to prepare it. Land with all the amenities that companies want, like sewer and water lines, highway access and natural-gas service, is not easily found in rural Wayne, Ms. Spinks said. The land should b! e close to utility lines. And most important of all, it must have fast access -- now, or in the future -- to Interstates 95 or 40. All of the potential areas are close to existing highways or future ones like the future U.S. 117 and the proposed U.S. 70 Bypass. Companies also want to be away from residential areas, to avoid potential conflicts, Ms. Lilley said. Only about one-third of the county has zoning, which means that in most of the county, people can build whatever they want, where ever they want. Many companies are reluctant to build a plant where residential development could grow near them, Ms. Lilley said. They foresee neighbors complaining about noise, traffic or other problems. The consultants said the nine sites are far enough from residential areas to avoid conflicts. Some county leaders have pressed for zoning that would provide orderly growth and preserve potential industrial sites. Without zoning, the other option to ! buy enough land to provide a buffer between the business and surrounding property, Ms. Spinks said. Then comes the problem of how to obtain the land. So far, the county commissioners have been the lead organization in funding industry-recruitment projects. One possibility is for the county to buy the land like it did with the back portion of the ParkEast Business and Industrial Park. Ms. Spinks said another way may be to take out options. This works by the county paying a certain percentage of the price of the land. The property owner gets the rest of the money when the property is sold to a company. The property owner also agrees to let the county market the land to industry. Ms. Spinks recommended that the county take out options for at least five years with automatic renewals. The county could also obtain a letter of intent from the land owner guaranteeing the property's sale. But some companies are uncomfortable with that, she said! . Once the property is available for sale to companies, it must be prepared. Companies want land that is ready to be built upon, Ms Lilley said. That means conducting surveys, preparing maps, soil tests and other preparations. It costs about $50,000 to prepare each site. The county can get state grants to pay for it, she said. But the bottom line, the consultants said, is that companies expect cheap -- or free -- land and buildings. And once they own them, they want to be able to act fast to construct a new building or to move into an existing one. "They're in a hurry," said Ms. Spinks. "And they want to be able to get it as cheap as possible." These community leaders attended the two-day, EDC retreat at Atlantic Beach: From Wayne County government -- Arnold Flowers, county commissioner and EDC member; Borden Parker, county attorney; Ken Gerrard, county commissioner and EDC member; Efton Sager, county commissioner; Connie Price, planni! ng director. From Goldsboro government -- Chuck Allen, city councilman and EDC member; Hal Plonk, mayor; Lee Worsley, assistant city manager; and Richard Slozak, city manager. From Mount Olive government -- Town Manager Ray McDonald; Mayor Louis Pate; Commissioner Ora Truzy; and Paul Smalley, town commissioner and EDC member. From the chambers of commerce -- John Peacock, president of the Wayne Chamber; Patti O'Donoghue, executive director of the Mount Olive Chamber; and Dave Quick, Wayne Chamber member. From the EDC -- President Joanna Thompson; Dr. Ed Wilson, EDC chairman and president of Wayne Community College; Jimmie Edmundson, EDC member and member of the state economic development board; Dr. Bill Byrd, EDC member and president of Mount Olive College; George Kornegay; Buddy Pope; and Jimmie Ford. From Seymour Johnson Air Force Base -- Steve Wagoner, commander of the 4th Support Group. From Carolina Power & Light Co. -! - Fred West, community relations manager, and Dan Oliver, with Progressive Energy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tuesday, June 05, 2001 at 17:45:06 (MDT)

Guest Name: janet and gary <maldives@janetandgary.com>
Country: uk, City: leeds
How many times have you visited Maldives? 3
Do you plan to visit Maldives? Yes
Comments: we have also stayed at thudufushi island in 1996 and are going back in 4 weeks time and cannot wait!!! We love the maldives, nowhere else compares to the sheer beauty and relaxation of these islands and the seaplane ride is just a bonus! See you 25th June thudufushi and we are counting the days! www.janetandgary.com and www.thudufushi.com

Friday, May 25, 2001 at 05:56:00 (MDT)