The Bahamian Government also has adopted a proactive approach to courting foreign investors and has conducted major investment missions to the Far East, Europe, Latin America, and Canada.

Despite its interest in foreign investment to diversify the economy, the Bahamian Government responds to local concerns about foreign competition and tends to protect Bahamian business and labor interests.

The Grand Bahama Port Authority ( GBPA ) operates the free trade zone, under the Hawksbill Creek Agreement signed in August 1955 whereby the Bahamian Government agreed that businesses in the Freeport area will pay no taxes before 2054.

He also maintains that some of the Africans taken as slaves to the New World already spoke Guinea Coast Creole English in Africa, and that their creole speech influenced the development of creole languages spoken today on the American side of the Atlantic such as Gullah, Afro-Seminole Creole, Bahamian Dialect, Jamaican Creole, Belizean Kriol, Guyanese Creole, Sranan Tongo in Suriname, etc.

The reverses of the coins show objects from Bahamian culture with the value of the coins in words.

The Bahamian dollar is pegged to the U. S. dollar on a one-to-one basis.

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.

Although the U. S. dollar ( as any other foreign currency ) is subject to exchange control laws in The Bahamas, the parity between Bahamian dollars and U. S. dollars means that any business will accept either U. S. or Bahamian currency and many of the businesses that serve tourists have extra U. S. dollars on hand for the convenience of American tourists.

The dollar has undergone several revisions in the last twenty years, one of the more notable being an extremely colourful redesign in celebration of the quincentennial of the landing of Christopher Columbus on a Bahamian island he named San Salvador.

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Symonette's portrait appears on the Bahamian $ 50 dollar note.

Shells have also been featured on many coins, including the Bahamian dollar ( 1974 ), the Cuban peso ( 1981 ), the Haitian gourde ( 1973 ), the Nepalese rupee ( 1989 ) and Philippine peso ( 1993 ).

His portrait appeared on the 10 Bahamian dollar note from 2001 until 2005, when it was replaced by that of Queen Elizabeth II.

Examples of dollars that are directly related to the original Spanish dollar unit are the US dollar, the Canadian dollar, the Newfoundland dollar, the East Caribbean dollar, the Belize dollar, the Guyanese dollar, the Bermuda dollar, the Bahamian dollar, the Trinidad and Tobago dollar, the Barbados dollar, the Hong Kong dollar, the Straits dollar, the Malayan dollar, the Singapore dollar, and the Brunei dollar.

The Bahamian economy is almost entirely dependent on tourism and financial services to generate foreign exchange earnings.

A Bahamian wrecker, when asked if he and his crewmates made beacons on shore or showed their lights to warn ships away from the land at night, is reported to have said, " No, no ; we always put them out for a better chance by night ".

The Crown passed this act on to the Bermudian government which objected to it, and which rejected Bahamian jurisdiction over the Turks.

Those regulations, issued as a royal order, stated that all British subjects had the right (" free liberty ") to rake and gather salt on the Turks, providing that they conformed to the regulations, which expressly rejected Bahamian jurisdiction over the Turks.

Despite this refutation by a higher authority of their right to impinge upon Bermudian activities on the Turks, the Bahamian government continued to harass the Bermudians ( unsurprisingly, given the lucrativeness of the Turks salt trade ).

The Bahamian government re-introduced a tax on salt from the Turks, annexed them to the Bahamas, and created a seat in the Bahamian parliament to represent them.

She is represented ceremonially by a Bahamian governor-general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

It is based on a Bahamian lullaby that tells the story of a mother on her death bed, comforting her children, " Hush little baby, don't you cry ./ You know your mama's bound to die ," because, as she explains, " All my trials, Lord ,/ Soon be over.

He developed a diet drink called " Bahamian Diet Nutritional Drink " and went on TV shows advocating for his diet and to help the morbidly obese.

The two were turned away by Bahamian officials on arrival, however, because they lacked visas ; they returned to Florida that same day.

E. Clement Bethel's master's thesis on traditional Bahamian music was adapted for the stage by his daughter, Nicolette Bethel and Philip A. Burrows.

All coins now bear the Bahamian Coat of Arms on one side with the words " Commonwealth of The Bahamas " and the date.

The three branches of Bahamian Government-the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary-are all headquartered on New Providence.

The FNM lies on the right of the Bahamian political spectrum.

The Coat of Arms was approved by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II on 7th December, 1971 for use by the Bahamian People and the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

The album featured a series of vividly dreamlike Williamson songs, such as " The Minotaur's Song ", a surreal music-hall parody told from the point of view of the mythical beast, and its centrepiece was Heron's " A Very Cellular Song ", a 13-minute reflection on life, love and amoebas, its complex structure incorporating a Bahamian spiritual (" I Bid You Goodnight ").

He co-wrote and directed the Independence Pageant, a survey of Bahamian history from pre-Columbian days to Bahamian Independence from Britain, which was performed on the evening leading up to the morning of July 10, 1973.

Not to be mistaken with the Bahamian moor, below.

As of 2000, El Portal had the second highest percentage of Bahamian residents in the US, with 2. 2 % of the US populace.

It had the fifth highest percentage of Bahamian residents in the US, at 1. 30 % of the population, and the ninety-seventh highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 2. 54 % of its population ( tied with Malone, FL.

West Little River's Bahamian community had the sixth highest percentage of residents, which was at 1. 2 % ( tied with North Miami.

Randol Fawkes ( the lone Labour MP ) voted to sit with the PLP, and Sir Alvin Braynan, an independent MP, agreed to become Speaker, enabling Pindling to form the first black government in Bahamian history.

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In the summer of 1958 Fleming and his friend, Ivar Bryce, began talking about the possibility of a Bond film ; in the autumn of 1958 Bryce introduced Fleming to a young Irish writer and director, Kevin McClory, and the three of them, together with Fleming and Bryce's friend Ernest Cuneo, formed the partnership Xanadu Productions, named after Bryce's Bahamian home, but which was never actually formed into a company.

The girls were also set to do a song with Bahamian Artist T Jay but had to back out.

There is a fledgling conservation industry on Andros, dedicated to preserving the island's unique ecosystems, working in partnership with both the Bahamian government ( Bahamas National Trust ) and such varied non-governmental organizations as The Nature Conservancy and Project AWARE of the Professional Association of Dive Instructors ( PADI ).

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She had her first major successes with the Bahamian 4 × 100 metres relay team, winning gold at the Pan American Games and World Championships in Athletics in 1999, and taking another gold at the Olympic Games the following year.

At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England, she set the championship record in the 100 metres and in the 4 × 100 m relay with the Bahamian team, recording a personal best of 10. 91 seconds in the individual event.

Despite fellow Bahamian Chandra Sturrup being unable to qualify for the final with a time of 11. 22 in the first semi final, Ferguson managed to qualify with the same time as she finished fourth in her race, while Sturrup finished fifth in hers.

However the island finally gained a stable source of income when in 1955 a Virginian financier named Wallace Groves began redevelopment with the Bahamian government to build the city of Freeport under the Hawksbill Creek Agreement and create the Grand Bahama Port Authority Soon after, the ambitious Edward St. George, with the financial help of Sir Jack Hayward, took the company to new frontiers.

Due to changes in foreign-ownership policy, with the Bahamas becoming independent in 1973, all of the large resorts and agricultural businesses were abandoned or compelled to be sold to government-favoured Bahamian interests.

In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 50, 000 acres ( or 202 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of pineyard with substantial areas of swamp and scrubland by the Bahamian government with a mandate to economically develop the area.

Many of these expatriates have since returned to Turks and Caicos, bringing with them Bahamian junkanoo music.