ONE FEARED DEAD AFTER NORTH ANDROS BOAT EXPLOSION
**BREAKING NEWS NOW**
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Reports of a tragedy coming out of MORGANS BLUFF, NORTH ANDROS where it is reported that a boat, allegedly owned by Dominic Butler, has exploded about 2 miles offshore.
There were five men on the boat… Four were able to swim to shore, one drowned.
The drowned victim is reported as Cassius Gaitor of Mastic Point (son of the late Cecil Gaitor).
Condolences to the family of Mr. Gaitor and to the Mastic Point community.
This is the second recent tragedy to effect Mr Dominic Butler whose shopping plaza was burnt to the ground a few months ago.
November 13, 2018
| Commonwealth of The Bahamas | |
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Motto: “Forward, Upward, Onward, Together”
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| Capital and largest city |
Nassau 25°4′N 77°20′W |
| Official languages | English |
| Vernacular language | Creole |
| Ethnic groups(2016) | 92.7% African 4.7% European 2.1% Mixed 1.9% Other[1][2] |
| Demonym | Bahamian |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy[3][4] |
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• Monarch
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Elizabeth II |
| Dame Marguerite Pindling | |
| Hubert Minnis | |
| Legislature | Parliament |
| Senate | |
| House of Assembly | |
| Independence | |
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• from the United Kingdom
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10 July 1973[5] |
| Area | |
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• Total
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13,878 km2 (5,358 sq mi) (155th) |
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• Water (%)
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28% |
| Population | |
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• 2016 estimate
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391,232[6] (177th) |
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• 2010 census
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351,461 |
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• Density
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25.21/km2 (65.3/sq mi) (181st) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2018 estimate |
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• Total
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$9.792 billion[7] |
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• Per capita
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$26,005[7] |
| GDP (nominal) | 2018 estimate |
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• Total
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$9.529 billion[7] |
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• Per capita
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$25,306[7] |
| HDI (2017) |  0.807[8]very high · 54th |
| Currency | Bahamian dollar (BSD) (US dollars widely accepted) |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
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• Summer (DST)
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UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Driving side | left |
| Calling code | +1 242 |
| ISO 3166 code | BS |
| Internet TLD | .bs |
The Bahamas (/bəˈhɑːməz/ (
listen)), known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas,[10] is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago. The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the United States state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The designation of “the Bahamas” can refer either to the country or to the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.
The Bahamas is the site of Columbus‘s first landfall in the New World in 1492. At that time, the islands were inhabited by the Lucayan, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people. Although the Spanish never colonised The Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera.
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American War of Independence, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists in the Bahamas; they brought their slaves with them and established plantations on land grants. Africans constituted the majority of the population from this period. The slave trade was abolished by the British in 1807; slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Subsequently, the Bahamas became a haven for freed African slaves; the Royal Navy resettled Africans there liberated from illegal slave ships, North American slaves and Seminoles escaped here from Florida, and the government freed slaves carried on US domestic ships that had reached the Bahamas due to weather. Today, Afro-Bahamians make up nearly 90% of the population.
The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973, retaining the British monarch, then and currently Queen Elizabeth II, as its head of state. In terms of gross domestic product per capita, The Bahamas is one of the richest countries in the Americas (following the United States and Canada), with an economy based on tourism and finance.[11]
