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Government
Long-form name: The Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
Type: commonwealth.
Capital: Nassau.
Administrative divisions: 21 districts; Abaco, Acklins Island,
Andros Island, Berry Islands, Biminis, Cat Island, Cay Lobos,
Crooked Island, Eleuthera, Exuma, Grand Bahama, Harbour
Island, Inagua, Long Cay, Long Island, Mayaguana, New Providence,
Ragged Island, Rum Cay, San Salvador, Spanish Wells.
Independence: 10 July 1973 (from UK).
Constitution: 10 July 1973.
Legal system: based on English common law.
National holiday: Independence Day, 10 July (1973).
Executive branch: British monarch, governor general, prime minister,
deputy prime minister, Cabinet.
Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament consists of an
upper house or Senate and a lower house or House of Assembly.
Judicial branch: Supreme Court.
Leaders:
Chief of State--Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952),
represented by Acting Governor General Sir Henry TAYLOR
(since 26 June 1988);
Head of Government--Prime Minister Sir Lynden Oscar PINDLING
(since 16 January 1967).
Political parties and leaders: Progressive Liberal Party
(PLP), Sir Lynden O. Pindling; Free National Movement (FNM),
Cecil Wallace-Whitfield.
Suffrage: universal at age 18.
Elections: House of Assembly--last held 19 June 1987 (next
to be held by June 1992); results--percent of vote by party
NA; seats--(49 total) PLP 31, FNM 16, independents 2.
Communists: none known.
Other political or pressure groups: Vanguard Nationalist
and Socialist Party (VNSP), a small leftist party headed
by Lionel Carey; Trade Union Congress (TUC), headed by
Arlington Miller.
Member of: ACP, CARICOM, CCC, CDB, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77,
GATT (de facto), IBRD, ICAO, IDB--Inter-American Development
Bank, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAS,
PAHO, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO.
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Margaret E. MCDONALD;
Chancery at Suite 865, 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington
DC 20037; telephone (202) 944-3390; there are Bahamian Consulates
General in Miami and New York; US--Ambassador Chic HECHT;
Embassy at Mosmar Building, Queen Street, Nassau (mailing
address is P. O. Box N-8197, Nassau); telephone (809) 322-1181
or 328-2206.
Flag: three equal horizontal bands of aquamarine (top),
gold, and aquamarine with a black equilateral triangle based
on the hoist side.