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The Bahamas,officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas,is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and 88% of its population. The archipelagic country consists of more than 3,000 islands,cays,and islets in the Atlantic Ocean,and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands,southeast of the U.S. state of Florida,and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas' territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.
Perry Gladstone Christie PC,MP is a Bahamian former politician who served as prime minister of the Bahamas from 2002 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2017. He is the second longest-serving Bahamian elected parliamentarian,representing the Centreville constituency from 1977 to 2017. He is also a former athlete. His Progressive Liberal Party is the oldest Bahamian political party,holding solid majorities in the Bahamian Parliament several times in its long history.
Hubert Alexander Ingraham,PC is a Bahamian politician who was Prime Minister of the Bahamas from August 1992 to May 2002,and again from May 2007 to May 2012. He is a member of the Free National Movement Party (FNM). Prior to the 2012 election,he was the FNM's Party Leader and member of Parliament for the North Abaco constituency. He served as leader of the opposition in the House of Assembly of the Bahamas from 2005 to 2007.
Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of The Bahamas,with the town of West End located 56 nautical miles east of Palm Beach,Florida. It is the third largest island in The Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays. The island is roughly 530 square miles (1,400 km2) in area and approximately 153 kilometres long west to east and 24 kilometres at its widest point north to south. Administratively,the island consists of the Freeport Bonded Area and the districts of East Grand Bahama and West Grand Bahama. Nearly half of the homes on the island were damaged or destroyed in early September 2019 by Hurricane Dorian.
Freeport is a city,district and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama of the northwest part of The Bahamas. In 1955,Wallace Groves,a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama,was granted 20,000 hectares of pineyard with substantial areas of swamp and scrubland by the Bahamian government with a mandate to economically develop the area. Freeport has grown to become the second most populous city in The Bahamas.
BTC is the primary telecommunications provider for the Bahamas,headquartered in Nassau,New Providence. It is partly government owned and offers telephone,internet and wireless services.
General elections were held in the Bahamas on 2 May 2007. The result was an opposition victory,with the Free National Movement,led by former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham,claiming 23 of the 41 seats. Incumbent Prime Minister Perry Christie conceded defeat in a phone call to his rival. Ingraham was sworn into the office of Prime Minister on 4 May.
Flamingo Air is a small airline in the Bahamas. Its base of operations is the Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport. It also has offices in Marsh Harbour Abaco Airport,in Bimini International Airport,and in the Lynden Pindling International Airport,Nassau. It provides scheduled service to several islands,as well as Air Charter service to the Bahamas and south Florida. The airline is currently grounded after a number of incidents in recent years. The Bahamian authorities have said they will keep all the aircraft grounded until inspections of Flamingo Air's maintenance and investigation into their safety practices are completed.
Western Air is a commercial airline based in The Bahamas offering daily flights throughout the islands of The Bahamas and South Florida. Western Air is a privately owned airline,established in 2000,headquartered at the San Andros Airport on Andros Island. The airline operates its own passenger terminal and full service maintenance facility at the Grand Bahama International Airport. Western Air's uniformed fleet of EMB145 50-seater jets with one-class cabins are heavily utilized by Bahamian locals and tourists to travel between the city of Nassau and the outer islands,such as Bimini,Exuma,Cat Island,Andros,Abaco and Grand Bahama. Western Air launched its first US route,between Nassau and Fort Lauderdale,Florida in May 2022.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to The Bahamas:
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
General elections were held in the Bahamas on 10 January 1967. The result was a tie between the Progressive Liberal Party and the United Bahamian Party,both of which won 18 seats. In a reversal of the previous election,this time the PLP received a lower share of the vote than the UBP,but was able to form the country's first black-led government with the support of the sole Labour Party MP Randol Fawkes.
Sir Cornelius Alvin Smith is a Bahamian politician and diplomat,who served as the 11th Governor-General of the Bahamas from 2019 to 2023.
Michael Clifton Pintard is a Bahamian politician serving as Leader of the Free National Movement and leader of the opposition since 27 November 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Marco City,Grand Bahama since 2017. First appointed in 2010,he served two terms in the Senate. He was the Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources from 2018 to 2021.
JoBeth Lillian Coleby-Davis is a Bahamian Progressive Liberal Party politician and attorney who has been the Bahamian Minister of Energy and Transport since 4 September 2023 and the Member of Parliament for Elizabeth since 16 September 2021. Coleby-Davis defeated the FNM incumbent Duane Sands in the 2021 general election. She previously served in the Senate from 2017 to 2021.
The 14th Bahamian Parliament is the current sitting of the Parliament of The Bahamas. It was elected in the 2021 Bahamian general election.
Terrence Jones is a Bahamian sprinter from West End,Grand Bahama. Jones attended Tabernacle Baptist Christian Academy in Freeport,Grand Bahama before going on to compete for Texas Tech University. He holds the Bahamian 200m Jr National Record with a time of 20.36 as well as the National Record and NCAA Indoor 60m record with a time of 6.45. On the April 15 2023 he equalled Derrick Atkins Bahamian national 100m record with a time of 9.91 (1.0m/s) This makes him the first Bahamian born in the Bahamas to achieve a sub 10 clocking,as Atkins was born in Jamaica.
Pakesia Parker-Edgecombe or Pakesia Edgecombe;Pakesia Parker is a politician who was a government minister in The Bahamas. She was the first woman to represent her constituency and she was the only woman in the cabinet when she became the minister responsible for Disaster Preparedness,Management and Reconstruction.
Michael Darville is a Bahamian politician from the Progressive Liberal Party.
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- ↑ "Residents give West Grand Bahama MP mixed reviews after one year". www.tribune242.com. Retrieved 2024-10-26.
- ↑ "SWORN IN: Kingsley Smith Jr sworn in as MP for West Grand Bahama and Bimini". Eye Witness News. 2023-12-06. Retrieved 2024-10-26.
