Although the Bahamas participates in the political aspects of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ), it has not entered into joint economic initiatives with other Caribbean states.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

The Government of The Bahamas welcomes foreign investment in tourism and banking and has declared an interest in agricultural and industrial investments to generate local employment, particularly in white-collar or skilled jobs.

The Bahamas has no income tax, corporate tax, capital gains tax, value-added tax ( VAT ), or wealth tax.

The more familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

In this regard, the government has tried to develop the island into an offshore financial center, imitating the success of the Bahamas and other island nations around the world that have emerged as major offshore banking centers.

The UNCCD has 194 country Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

With no functioning government in the Bahamas, Nassau became a base of operations for English privateers, in what has been called a " privateers ' republic ," which lasted for eleven years.

The land on the Bahamas has a foundation of fossil coral, but much of the rock is oolitic limestone ; the stone is derived from the disintegration of coral reefs and seashells.

While there has never been a freeze reported in the Bahamas, the temperature can fall to during Arctic outbreaks that affect nearby Florida.

It fitted the all-important musical sequences into a contrived fantasy adventure in which the group is pursued through a series of locales ( including Switzerland and The Bahamas ) by a band of Indian thuggee assassins bent on recovering a sacred ring which has come into Ringo's possession.

Jensen Beach has been the sister city of Gregory Town in the Bahamas since July 1989.

The Morgan State University Choir has performed for audiences throughout the United States and all over the world — including the Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Canada, Africa, Asia and Europe.

Since 2007 Speight's has been distributed to Samoa, Panama, the Bahamas, New York and London.

This name initially has been given to the deep underwater sinkholes of Bahamas but often is used for any deep water-filled pits formed in carbonate rocks.

An enigmatic form based on a coracoid found in Pliocene deposits of New Providence, Bahamas, has been described as Bathoceleus hyphalus and probably also is a woodpecker.

This form of music has spread through many parts of the Caribbean, including the Bahamas.

Soca music has evolved in the last 20 years primarily by musicians from various Anglophone Caribbean countries including Trinidad, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, United States Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica and Belize.

Outside of the United States, ELCA also has congregations in the Caribbean region ( Bahamas, Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands ) and one congregation in the border city of Windsor, Ontario, a member of the Slovak Zion Synod.

The Westchester County Airport currently has twelve commercial airlines flying to fifteen destinations around the United States and the Bahamas.

The dollar ( sign: $; code: BSD ) has been the currency of The Bahamas since 1966.

The $ ½ shows an older Queen Elizabeth II and the back shows a picture of Sister Sarah in the Nassau Straw Market ; the $ 1 shows Sir Lynden Pindling and on the back the Royal Bahamas Police Force Band ; the $ 3 has a young Queen Elizabeth II and on the back shows a Family Island Regatta with native sloops ; the $ 5 – Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield and the back shows a Junkanoo group ' rushing ' in the Junkanoo parade ; the $ 10 – an older Queen Elizabeth II ( replacing Sir Stafford Sands ) and the back shows the Hope Town Lighthouse and settlement in Abaco, the $ 20 – Sir Milo Butler ; the $ 50 – Sir Roland Symonette ; the $ 100 – an older Queen Elizabeth II and the back shows a jumping blue marlin, the national fish of The Bahamas.

The Bahamas is a stable, developing nation with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and offshore banking.

The Bahamas is largely an import, service economy.

In the first half of the 20th century, the Bahamas was largely controlled by a group of influential white merchants known as the " Bay Street Boys ", who dominated both the economy and the legislature.

The Bahamas is ranked 7th out of 29 countries in the South and Central America / Caribbean region, and its overall score is higher than the regional and world averages.

In a 2002 retrospective, Roger Ebert, who " saw the original version at the world premiere in 1969, during the golden age of the junket, when Warner Bros. screened five of its new films in the Bahamas for 450 critics and reporters ", said that back then he had publicly declared the film a masterpiece during the junket's press conference, prompted by comments from " a reporter from the Reader's Digest got up to ask ' Why was this film ever made?

* December 11-Muhammad Ali's last fight: He loses a ten round decision to future world Heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick in Nassau, Bahamas.

He owns hundreds of racehorses, valuable stud farms, an exclusive yacht club on Sardinia, a private island in the Bahamas, two Bombardier jets, a 12-seat helicopter, a £ 100 million high speed yacht named after his prize racehorse, and several estates around the world, including an estate called Aiglemont in the town of Gouvieux, France – just north of Paris.

Andros Island was the site of two of the first dive-dedicated resorts in the world, and the first in the Bahamas, both founded by Canadians — Small Hope Bay Lodge near Fresh Creek, founded by Dick Birch ( 1960 ) and Forfar's at North Blanket Sound founded by Archie Forfar ( 1962 ).

Conocarpus erectus, one of two species in the genus Conocarpus, is a mangrove shrub and tree in the family Combretaceae growing on shorelines in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including Florida, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Central and South America from Mexico to Brazil on the Atlantic coast and Mexico to Ecuador on the Pacific coast, western Africa and in Melanesia and Polynesia.

The essence of what makes a particular dish " Floribbean " is similar to many other aspects of Floridian culture: that it is heavily influenced by visitors and immigrants from all over the world, but especially from the Caribbean ( with notable influence from Haiti, The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago ).

Also, the Bahamas had some of the strictest bank secrecy laws in the world.

The Bahamas Film Studios has one of the largest open water filming enclosures in the world, along with production offices and support facilities, such as property warehouses, wardrobe workshops and other covered space.

Although most of the Diario is written in the third-person of Las Casas, nearly all of that portion dealing with Columbus's movements in the Bahamas is in the first person of Columbus himself, and is ( according to Las Casas ) a direct quote from the Barcelona copy.

* The Bahamas: Celebrations are mainly concentrated in Fox Hill Village, Nassau, a former slave village whose inhabitants, according to folklore, heard about their freedom a week after everyone else on the island.

At the time, according to the Governor of Bermuda, the Bahamas were " without any face or form of Government " and the colony was a " sink or nest of infamous rascals ".

Created jointly by the Leon Levy Foundation and the Bahamas National Trust, the Preserve is home to more than 171 species of indigenous plants and has become a popular destination for local teachers and schoolchildren, as well as tourists.

At Stevens ' trial, it was revealed that Stevens and Nagriamel received US $ 250, 000 from the American-based Phoenix Foundation, a libertarian group that previously attempted to establish an independent tax-haven state in Abaco Island, the Bahamas in 1973.

In June 1973, one month before the intended independence, the Foundation financed Chuck Hall and Bert Williams ' Abaco Independence Movement ( AIM ) which attempted to make Abaco independent from the Bahamas, hoping to create a libertarian region.

They married in early July 2010 in a private ceremony at a friend's home in the Bahamas.

BAS was wholly owned by Bertolt Flick ( President and CEO ) until December 2010, when 50 % of BAS shares were transferred to Taurus Asset Management Fund Limited, registered in the Bahamas.

On Friday, August 13, 2010, tickets went on sale for the third annual NKOTB cruise which will take place aboard the Carnival Destiny, leaving from Miami, FL on Thursday, May 12, 2011 to Nassau and Half Moon Cay, Bahamas and returning to Miami, FL on Monday, May 16, 2011.

The leaders of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands discussed the possibility of forming a federation in 2010.

In the qualifying rounds for the 2010 World Cup they were paired with the Bahamas.

In August 2009, SRI announced the purchase of the former Four Season Great Exuma, which debuted as Sandals Emerald Bay, Great Exuma, Bahamas on January 22, 2010.