Hello everyone, my name is Daniel and I am from The Bahamas which is the country I love so dearly and one of my main reasons for joining Wikipedia. I am currently a student preparing for college and then most likely University (hopefully the University of the West Indies or the University of Western Ontario). What I hope to achieve on wikipedia is to create and expand as many articles on the Bahamas and the Caribbean at large to bring people to a better understanding of our people and culture.

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BAHAMAS PORTAL COMING SOON!!!

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Well I intend to creat the Bahamas Portal in three stages. The first stage is copying a featured portal framework (I've decieded to copy Cuba's Portal framework). Secondly making the actual portal. Finally creating the Bahamas portal. This of course this would have the finished product. Here it is, the Soon to be Bahamas Portal, Portal:Bahamas

The Bahamas general election, 2012
 
← 2007 7 May 2010 (2010-05-07)
   
Leader Hubert Ingraham
Party FNM
Leader since 2 May 2007
Leader's seat North Abaco
Last election 23seats, 49,86%



SVG Images

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I've recently begun creating SVG images and hopefull I will get better at doing very soon. I will document all SVG images that I create right here:

New CARICOM Geopolitical Template

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Caribbean Community
  • Caribisch Gemeenschap (Dutch)
    Communauté des Antilles (French)
    Comunidad caribe (Spanish)
Flag
 
Map of CARICOM with full members states highlighted in green, associate members in lime green, and observers in pistachio
Seat of SecretariatGeorgetown
Official languages
TypeSupranational organisation
Member states
Leaders
Irwin LaRocque
• Chairman
Denzil Douglas
Establishment
4 July, 1973
• Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas
2001
Area
• Total
458,480 km2 (177,020 sq mi)
Population
• 2010 estimate
15,948,000
• Density
34.8/km2 (90.1/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)2010 estimate
• Total
$91,296 billion (70)
• Per capita
$5,725 (109)
GDP (nominal)2010 estimate
• Total
$64,771 billion (65)
• Per capita
$8,116 (67)

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Flag State
Joined
Official
Language(s)
Population
km²
GDP (PPP)
$Million

GDP (PPP)
per capita

CPI
HDI
  Antigua and Barbuda 4 July 1974 English 86,754 442.6 1,709 $19,699 0.764
  Bahamas 4 July 1983 English 353,658 10,010 10,353 $29,274 7.3 0.771
  Barbados Founder English 284,589 430 6,300 $22,137 7.8 0.793
  Belize 1 May 1974 English 333,200 22,806 2,679 $8,020 0.699
  Dominica 1 May 1974 English 72,660 751 952 $13,102 5.2 0.724
  Grenada 1 May 1974 English 110,000 344 849 $7,718 0.748
  Guyana Founder English 752,940 196,849 5,433 $7,215 2.5 0.633
  Haiti 2 July 2002 French and
Haitian Creole
9,719,932 27,560 11,466 $1,179 1.8 0.454
  Jamaica Founder English 2,847,232 10,831 23,765 $8,346 3.3 0.727
  Montserrat 1 May 1974 English 5,879 102 99 3,400
  Saint Kitts and Nevis 26 July 1974 English 51,300 261 892 $17,387 0.735
  Saint Lucia 1 May 1974 English 173,765 606 2,071 $11,918 7.0 0.723
  Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines
1 May 1974 English 120,000 389 1,237 $10,308 5.8 0.717
  Suriname 4 July 1995 Dutch 529,000 156,000 4,725 $8,931 3.0 0.680
  Trinidad and Tobago Founder English 1,227,505 5,128 26,016 $21,194 3.2 0.760
Highest
Highest third
Middle third
Lowest third
Lowest

List of Governors of the Bahamas

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# Image Governor From To
Governors of Eleuthera (1648–1657):
1   William Sayle 1648 1657
Proprietary Governors of the Bahama Islands (1670–1706):
2   Hugh Wentworth 1671 December 1671
3   John Wentworth December 1671 1676
4   Charles Chillingworth 1676 1677
5   Roger Clarke 1677 1682
6   Richard Lilburne 1684 1684
British rule temporarily disrupted due to joint Spanish and French raid on Charlestown
7   Thomas Bridges 1687 1690
8   Cadwallader Jones 1690 1693
9   Nicholas Trott 1694 1696
10   Nicholas Webb 1697 1699
-   Read Elding
(acting)
1699 1700
11   Elias Haskett 1700 1701
12   Ellis Lightfoot 1701 1705
13   Edward Birch 1706 1706
14   Thomas Walker 1706 1706
Privateer's Republic (1706-1718)
Royal Governors of the Bahama Islands (1706-1776)
15   Woodes Rogers 26 July 1718 1721
16   George Phenney 1721 1728
17   Woodes Rogers August 1729 16 July 1732
-   Richard Thompson
(acting)
1732 1733
18   Richard Fitzwilliams November 1733 1740
19   John Tinker 1740 1758
-   John Gambier
(acting)
1758 1760
20   William Shirley 1760 1768
21   Sir Thomas Shirley, 1st Baronet 28 November 1768 1774
22   Montfort Browne 1774 3 March 1776
Commandant of the Bahama Islands (during American occupation, 1776)
1   Samuel Nicholas 3 March 1776 17 March 1776
Royal Governors of the Bahama Islands(1776-1782)
-   John Gambier
(acting)
17 March 1776 1778
22   Montfort Browne 1778 1779
23   John Robert Maxwell 1780 8 May 1782
Governors of Louisiana (during Spanish occupation)
1   Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid,
Count of Gálvez
8 May 1782 19 April 1783
Royal Governors of the Bahama Islands (1783-1969)
-   Andrew de Vau (acting) 1783 1783
23   John Robert Maxwell 1783 1784
24   James Edward Powell 1784 1786
-   John Brown
(acting)
1786 1787
25   John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore 1787 1796
-   Robert Hunt
(acting)
1796 14 February 1797
26   John Forbes 14 February 1797 June 1797
27   Lieutenant-General William Dowdeswell 20 November 1797 1801
28   John Halkett 1801 1804
28   Charles Cameron 8 May 1804 1820
30   Lewis Grant 1821 1829
31   Sir James Carmichael Smyth, 1st Baronet 1829 1833
32   Blayney Townley Balfour 1833 1835
33   William MacBean George Colebrooke 1835 1837
34   Sir Francis Cockburn 1837 1844
35   George Benvenuto Matthew 1844 1849
36   John Gregory 1849 1854
37   Sir Alexander Bannerman 1854 1857
38   Charles John Bayley 1857 1864
39   Rawson William Rawson 1864 1869
40   Sir James Walker 1869 1871
41   George Cumine Strahan
KCMG
1871 1873
42   Sir John Pope Hennessy
KCMG
1873 1874
43   Sir William Robinson 1874 1880
44   Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan 1880 1881
45   Sir Charles Cameron Lees
KCMG
1882 January 1884
46   Sir Henry Arthur Blake
GCMG, DL
4 January 1884 1887
47   Sir Ambrose Shea
KCMG
1887 1895
48   Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith 1895 1898
49   Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter 1898 1904
50   Sir William Grey-Wilson 29 November 1904 1912
51   Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith 29 October 1912 1914
52   Sir William Lamond Allardyce
KCMG
15 June 1914 1920
53   Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux
KCMG, CB
8 December 1920 1926
54   Sir Charles William James Orr 15 March 1927 January 1932
55   Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford 10 January 1932 1934
-   Sir Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas
(acting)
1934 1940
56   HRH The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor 18 August 1940 1945
57   Sir William Lindsay Murphy 28 July 1945 1950
58   Sir George Ritchie Sandford 5 January 1950 December 1950
59   Sir Robert Arthur Ross Neville 7 December 1950 1953
60   Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly 21 December 1953 1956
61   Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur 1 April 1957 1960
62   Sir Robert Stapeldon 18 July 1960 1964
63   Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton
GCMG, GCVO, OBE, GCSt.J. P.C
3 June 1964 1968
64   Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce
KCMG
1 November 1968 1969
Governors of the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands (1969–1973)
65   Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce
KCMG
1969 1972
66   Sir John Warburton Paul
GCMG, OBE, MC
14 May 1972 10 July 1973
On the 10 July 1973 the Bahamas gained full independance from the United Kingdom
and the post of Governor was essentially replaced by a Governor-General

Governors on Eleuthera (1648–1657)

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Proprietary Governors of the Bahamas (1670–1706)

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On 1 November 1670, the Bahamas were granted to the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina:

The islands were largely left to themselves, but the Lords Proprietors appointed Proprietary Governors to administer them:

In 1684, a joint French and Spanish fleet destroyed Charles Town (modern Nassau).

Pirate Rule (1706–1718)

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Starting around 1706 and lasting until 26 July 1718, the Bahamas were ruled by the anarchic Privateer's Republic, including:

Governors of the Bahamas (1717–1969)

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In 1717 the Bahamas became a British crown colony. The pirates were driven out in 1718 by Woodes Rogers, the colony's first governor.

  • Samuel Nicholas, 3 March 1776 – 17 March 1776, Commandant (American occupation)

Governors of the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands (1969–1973)

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In 1969, the crown colony became the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands.

Letter to Live in Belgium

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•Comment: Francais :Bonjour, je suis désolé, je ne parle pas très bon francais, mais je voudrais connaître si j'et deux amis peuvent louer votre Flat-Studio année prochaine mai. J'ai 18 ans, et mes amis ont 18 ans et 20 ans, mais nous avons assez d'argent louer votre Flat-Studio. S'il vous plaît répondez. English: Hello I'm sorry that I don't speak alot of French, but I would like to know if I and two friends can rent your Flat-Studio next year May (2013). I am 18 years old and my friends are 18 years and 20 years old respectively. I want you to know that we are old enough to pay and have enough money for the rent, please repond.

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Category:History of the Bahamas

Portal:Caricom/member State

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Antigua and Barbuda (/ænˈtɡə ænd bɑːrˈbjuːdə/ ; Spanish for "ancient" and "bearded") is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean

 
Coat of Arms of Antigua and Barbuda

. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands (including Great Bird, Green, Guinea, Long, Maiden and York Islands and further south, the island of Redonda). The permanent population number approximately 81,800 (at the 2011 Census) and the capital and largest port and city is St. John's, on Antigua.

Separated by a few nautical miles, Antigua and Barbuda are in the middle of the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles, roughly at 17 degrees north of the Equator. The country is nicknamed "Land of 365 Beaches" due to the many beaches surrounding the islands. Its governance, language, and culture have all been strongly influenced by the British Empire, of which the country was formerly a part.

Antigua was first settled by Archaic Age hunter-gatherer Amerindians, erroneously referred to as Siboney or Ciboney. Carbon-dating has established that the earliest settlements started around 3100 BC. They were succeeded by the Ceramic Age pre-Columbian Arawak-speaking Saladoid people who migrated from the lower Orinoco River...