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Think twice about a tropical getaway to the Caribbean this winter. The U.S. embassy in the Bahamas has released a security warning and travel advisory that the island nation is currently unsafe ...
The Flying Gang was an 18th-century group of pirates who established themselves in Nassau, New Providence in the Bahamas after the destruction of Port Royal in Jamaica. [2] The gang consisted of the most notorious and cunning pirates of the time, and they terrorized and pillaged the Caribbean until the Royal Navy and infighting brought them to ...
Nassau had a population of 128,420 females and 117,909 males and was home to 70,222 households with an average family size of 3.5 according to the 2010 census. [19] Nassau's large population in relation to the remainder of the Bahamas is the result of waves of immigration from the Family Islands to the capital. Consequently, this has led to the ...
Capital punishment in the Bahamas is a legal punishment, and is conducted by hanging at Fox Hill Prison. [1] The last execution in the country was on January 6, 2000. [1] As of August 2012, only one convict, Mario Flowers, was under the sentence of death.
Earthquakes are common in the Caribbean, with some events even being catastrophic for island nations. In 2021, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti, causing significant damage to ...
A tornado also formed in Nassau, killing a 15-month-old child, and injuring two others. It was rated an EF1, with winds of over 100 mph (160 km/h) being reported from an anemoter near the tornado. However, the strongest winds in the Bahamas directly linked to the hurricane was in West End, Grand Bahama where winds got to 90 mph (140 km/h).
The Nassau County mask ban is in response to “antisemitic incidents, often perpetrated by those in masks.” This New York County Signed The Nation's First Face Mask Ban Into Law Skip to main ...
Pirates established themselves in Nassau, and essentially established their own republic with its own governors. By 1713, the War of the Spanish Succession was over, but many British privateers were slow to get the news, or reluctant to accept it, and so slipped into piracy. This led to large numbers of unemployed privateers making their way to ...