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The Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) is a government corporation that provides electricity to all of the Bahama Islands except for Grand Bahama. The corporation operates power plants at 25 locations throughout the islands, with 95,000 customers and a peak capacity of 438 MW .
Pia Takita Glover-Rolle (born 18 April 1977) is a Bahamian Progressive Liberal Party politician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is currently The Bahamas Minister of Labour and Public Service since 11 September 2023.
The library was founded in 1837, when the Bahamas Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge was combined with a reading society. The Nassau Public Library was made official in 1847 with the passing of the Nassau Public Library Act, making it among the oldest Public Libraries in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
The Cabinet constitutes the executive branch and has general direction and control of the Government of The Bahamas. It is necessary for the Cabinet to comprise at least nine Ministers inclusive of the Prime Minister and Attorney General.
Television in the Bahamas was introduced in 1977, though television broadcasts had already been available from the United States for several decades. The television stations in the Bahamas include: ZNS-13 , Nassau / Freeport
The economy of the Bahamas is dependent upon tourism and offshore banking. The Bahamas is the richest country in the West Indies and is ranked 14th in North America for nominal GDP. [8] It is a stable, developing nation in the Lucayan Archipelago, with a population of 391,232 (2016). Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction ...
The PLP was founded in 1953 by William Cartwright, Cyril Stevenson, and Henry Milton Taylor. [1] [2] The PLP was the first national political party in the Bahamas.[1]The party governed for 25 straight years from 1967 to 1992, as well as from 2002 to 2007 and 2012 to 2017.
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. A General Assembly was established in 1729; the first elections took place in September, and on 29 September 1729 twenty-four members representing the islands of New Providence , Eleuthera , and Harbour Island gathered together at the house of Samuel ...