The Bahamas is a beneficiary of the U. S .- Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act ( CBTPA ), Canada's CARIBCAN program, and the European Union's Lome IV Agreement.

RFMBT is the only merchant bank in The Bahamas and is a joint venture with Royal Bank of Canada.

The Bahamas is largely an import, service economy.

Bahamian tastes in consumer products roughly parallel those in the U. S. With approximately 85 % of the population of primarily African descent, there is a large and growing market in the Bahamas for " ethnic " personal care products.

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.

Finally, if the Triangle is assumed to cross land, such as parts of Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, or Bermuda itself, there is no evidence for the disappearance of any land-based vehicles or persons.

Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

* The first day of Junkanoo street parade, the second day is on the New Year's Day ( the Bahamas )

He continued to the Bahamas and Jamaica, where the current Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, is considering severing ties between Jamaica and the constitutional monarchy.

* 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

Unlike large limestone areas such as Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, or the Bahamas, which is a small island group composed of coral and sand, St. Lucia is a typical Windward Island formation of volcanic rock that came into existence long after much of the region had already been formed.

The territory is geographically contiguous to the Bahamas, both comprising the Lucayan Archipelago, but is politically a separate entity.

broadcasts from The Bahamas are also received ; cable television is established ) ( 1997 )

* August 18 – HRH The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, is installed as Governor of the Bahamas.

Fox programming is available on cable in the Bahamas, via over-the-air stations in the United States.

Ceiba is the name of a genus of many species of large trees found in tropical areas, including Mexico, Central America, South America, The Bahamas, Belize and the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia.

The Bahamas offers attractive features to the potential investor: a stable democratic environment, relief from personal and corporate income taxes, timely repatriation of corporate profits, proximity to the U. S. with extensive air and telecommunications links, and a good pool of skilled professional workers.

The Central Bank of The Bahamas states that it uses reserve requirements, changes in the Bank discount rate and selective credit controls, supplemented by moral suasion as main instruments of monetary policy, the objective of which is to keep stable conditions, including credit, in order to maintain the parity between the U. S. dollar and the Bahamian dollar while allowing economic development to proceed.

# Some developing countries such as Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Brunei, Equatorial Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf have been classified as " Developed countries " by the World Bank.

The university sponsors numerous annual service trips within the United States, as well as in Guatemala, Belize, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, The Bahamas and other developing countries.

The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus ' discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed little interest in developing the island ( and the Bahamas as a whole ).

After deteriorating into a tropical depression, Klaus briefly restrengthened over the Bahamas before dissipating on October 9 under the influence of developing tropical storm, Marco.

Under his direction, the new nation of the Bahamas learned an appreciation of its indigenous music.

She was quoted after the race as saying " I think per capita, the Bahamas already won the Olympics ", referring to the 2 medals won for the nation of approximately 325, 000 people.

* the call sign a 2 kW navigation beacon on 396 kHz located on South Bimini Island within the nation of The Bahamas.

Since the vessel was operating between two international ports, CATS decided to register Spirit of Ontario I under the flag of Bahamas, a flag of convenience nation, to avoid Canadian or U. S. taxes.

South Andros is a district of the nation of The Bahamas.

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.

It provides investment products and services and attracts the majority of the corporate business deals in The Bahamas, most recently acting as financial advisor and placement agent for the largest Initial Public Offering ( IPO ) ever in The Bahamas with the IPO of Commonwealth Brewery, a Heineken subsidiary.

The Hawksbill Creek Agreement established a duty-free zone in Freeport, The Bahamas ' second-largest city, with a nearby industrial park to encourage foreign industrial investment.

There are about 110 U. S .- affiliated businesses operating in The Bahamas, and most are associated with tourism and banking.

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.

On 19 December 2005 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas, with an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami, Florida, crashed off Miami Beach, Florida.

Large-scale emigration, principally to the United States, and Canada ( predominantly to Quebec, with other areas of the country )-but also to Cuba, other areas of Europe and the Americas such as France ( with French Guiana ), Spain, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Ireland ; and Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and other Caribbean neighbors-has created what Haitians refer to as the Eleventh Department or the Diaspora.

The sport entered the ' modern ' era in the 1960s, with notable names like Jim Wynn, Don Aronow, and Dick Bertram competing in mammoth events such as the Bahamas race.

Together with Tainos who crossed over from Cuba to the southern Bahamas around the same time, these people became the Lucayans.

This recording also established the band's long term recording studio relationship with the famous Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas.

The history of the Bahamas begins with the earliest arrival of humans in the islands in the first millennium AD.

In 1666 other settlers from Bermuda arrived on New Providence, which soon became the center of population and commerce in the Bahamas, with almost 500 people living on the island by 1670.

In the 1690s English privateers ( England was at war with France ) established themselves in the Bahamas.

The " pirates ' republic " came to an end in 1718, when Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas, reached Nassau with a small fleet of warships.

drug trade, with 90 % of all the cocaine entering the United States reportedly passing through the Bahamas.

Two were hung and Force was later sent to the Bahamas with most of the island's other free blacks.

Bermuda spent much of the 18th century in a protracted legal battle with the Bahamas ( which had itself been colonised by Bermudians in 1647 ) over the Turks Islands.

In March 1956 Ian Fleming and his friend Ivar Bryce accompanied Robert Cushman Murphy ( with the American Museum of Natural History ) and Arthur Vernay ( with the Flamingo Protection Society ) on a trip to Great Inagua in the south of The Bahamas to a flamingo colony.

The Bahamas, which had been depopulated of its indigenous inhabitants by the Spanish, had been settled by England, beginning with the Eleutheran Adventurers, dissident Puritans driven out of Bermuda during the English Civil War.