'Bahamas' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to either the country in the Caribbean or the Bahamian archipelago. Example sentence: My family and I just returned from a wonderful vacation to the Bahamas.
The Bahamas had approved investments worth over $20 billion over the next five years.
Some gang members miss the fast money and excitement of the Bahamas' 1980s drugs boom.
Its Freeport Container Port on Grand Bahama, a northern island on the Bahamas, opened in 1997; with 16 metres of water depth, it can easily take the giants.
He said when they were in the Bahamas, they all stayed in the same cabin.
Earlier this month, concerned citizens of Antigua Island reported illegal clearing of mangroves by a Chinese firm hell-bent on delivering one more mega-tourism development replete with golf courses, marinas, casinos and hotels, almost mirroring a similar Chinese development disaster on Bimini Island in the Bahamas.
The HSBC account was closed in 2014 and the funds transferred to the Bahamas to an account with the Swiss bank CBH.
Christine Ohuruogu, the world 400m champion, and Richard Kilty, the world indoor 60m champion, are among those selected for Britain's 24-strong squad for the inaugural World Relays in the Bahamas next week.
Artist Jason deCaires Taylor is known for his underwater creations: he was behind the world's first underwater sculpture park, off Grenada in the Caribbean; a submerged museum off the coast of Cancún, Mexico; and Ocean Atlas, the world's largest single underwater sculpture, in the Bahamas.
The charge of failing to declare a foreign bank account relates to money Blazer held during 2010 at First Caribbean International Bank, in the Bahamas.
So far, 89 of The World's apartments have been sold and the rest are expected to be snapped up by the time the ship is completed in December, says Frédy Dellis, the boss of ResidenSea, the Bahamas-based company behind the scheme.
Any relevant transaction with an American link can be targeted such as the one in which an employee of a Bahamas-based bank flew to New York to pick up an alleged bribe of $250,000.A third explanation for American zeal is the prevalence of plea-bargaining.
