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U.S. Ambassador John D. Rood reading to students at Woodcock Primary School in Nassau. Education in the Bahamas is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16. [1] As of 2003, the school attendance rate was 92% and the literacy rate was 95.5%. [1] The government fully operates 158 of the 210 primary and secondary schools in the Bahamas. [1]
Nassau (/ ˈ n æ s ɔː / NASS-aw) is the capital and largest city of the Bahamas. It is located on the island of New Providence , which had a population of 246,329 in 2010, or just over 70% of the entire population of the Bahamas. [ 2 ]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Nassau 172,196 238,132 New Providence ... Bahamas City 500 3,827 Grand Bahama ...
The modern system of local government that is in use today was created by the 8 March 1996. The Out Islands of the country could now enjoy a somewhat greater degree of autonomy, but New Providence Island, in which the capital city Nassau is located, was to be directly governed by the central government. The Act defines the form of government in ...
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Kingsway Academy traces its origins to 1957 when Canadian missionary Ernest Tatham envisioned a Christian school in Nassau. [1] His daughter, Ruth had established the Jack and Jill Nursery School on Dowdeswell Street and, in 1958, Tatham established a primary school behind the nursery school, [2] which he called the Charles Tatham Memorial School, named after his father, Charles Goodeve Tatham.
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