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Background. The Bahamas has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.. In January 2021, it was reported that the PLP was expecting an early election. At dissolution, the FNM was down four seats on their 2017 result; House Speaker Halson Moultrie, Reece Chipman, and Frederick McAlpine left the party to sit and run for re-election as independents, whilst Vaughn Miller defected to the PLP.
JoBeth Coleby-Davis. JoBeth Lillian Coleby-Davis (born 17 July 1984) is a Bahamian Progressive Liberal Party politician and attorney who has been the Bahamian Minister of Housing and Transport since 23 September 2021 and the Member of Parliament for Elizabeth since 6 October 2021. Coleby-Davis defeated the FNM incumbent Duane Sands in the 2021 ...
The effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas in 2019 were among the worst experienced for any natural disaster in the country. Hurricane Dorian struck the Abaco Islands as a Category 5 hurricane on September 1, and a day later hit Grand Bahama Island at the same category. The hurricane then stalled over Grand Bahama for another day, finally ...
Julie Lashell Adderley (born 1968) is a Bahamian lawyer and politician who has been President of the Senate of the Bahamas since 7 October 2021. Career. Adderley is a lawyer who has worked as legal counsel for Bahamas First General Insurance, and as a legal and compliance manager and corporate secretary for Bahamas First Holdings.
Constituencies of the Bahamas are the electoral divisions for the Bahamas House of Assembly, the lower Parliamentary house. The Assembly currently has 39 single-member constituencies and uses the Westminster first past the post system. The Members of Parliament (MPs) serve 5-year-terms. The last election was in 2021.
Republicanism in the Bahamas is a political movement for the replacement of the monarchy of the Bahamas and a monarch as head of state with a president. The idea has been floated since at least 2002, with renewed discussions since Barbados ' became a republic in 2021. Calls for the Bahamas to become a republic have also been made following the ...
Television in the Bahamas. 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. JCN Channel 14. Our TV. Eyewitness News.
Politics of The Bahamas. The monarchy of The Bahamas is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The current Bahamian monarch and head of state since 8 September 2022, is King Charles III. As sovereign, he is the personal embodiment of the Bahamian Crown.