Exhibit 24.5

                             PARADISE ISLAND LIMITED

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

      The undersigned directors and/or officers, or both, of Paradise Island
Limited, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth
of The Bahamas ("PIL"), which is about to file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, Washington, D.C., under the provisions of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, a Registration Statement, hereby constitute and appoint
Charles D. Adamo, Howard B. Kerzner, John Allison and Kevin DeSanctis alone or
acting together, their true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of
them, with full power to act without the others, their true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agent, for them and in their names, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign said Registration Statement, and any and all
amendments thereto (including any post-effective amendments), with power where
appropriate to affix the corporate seal of PIL thereto and to attest said seal,
and to file said Registration Statement and such amendments, with all exhibits
thereto, and any and all other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and
all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises
as fully to all intents and purposes as they might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of
them, may pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.


      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have duly signed this Power of
Attorney in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

          Name             Title
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   /s/ Howard Kerzner      Director (Principal Executive Officer)
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     Howard Kerzner        

   /s/ Kevin DeSanctis     Director (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
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     Kevin DeSanctis       

  /s/ Charles D. Adamo     Director
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    Charles D. Adamo       

    /s/ John Allison       Authorized Representative in the United States
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      John Allison


Date: November 25, 1997