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Central And South Abaco
Central and South Abaco is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Assembly of the Bahamas. It is located in the Abaco Islands and includes the communities of Dundas Town, Murphy Town, and Sandy Point. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is John Pinder II John H. W. Pinder II is a Bahamian politician from the Progressive Liberal Party. Early life Pinder is a direct descendant of the first settlers of Hope Town and Cherokee Sound on the Abaco Islands. Career In the 2021 Bahamian general elec .... Members of Parliament Election results References Constituencies of the Bahamas Year of establishment missing Abaco Islands See also * Constituencies of the Bahamas {{Bahamas-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abaco Islands
The Abaco Islands lie in the north of Bahamas, The Bahamas, about 193 miles (167.7 nautical miles or 310.6 km) east of Miami, Florida, US. The main islands are Great Abaco and Little Abaco, which is just west of Great Abaco's northern tip. There are several smaller barrier cays, of which the northernmost are Walker's Cay and its sister island Grand Cay. To the south, the next inhabited islands are Spanish Cay and Green Turtle Cay, with its settlement of New Plymouth, Great Guana Cay, private Scotland Cay, Man-O-War Cay and Elbow Cay, with its settlement of Hope Town. Southernmost are Tilloo Cay and Lubbers Quarters. Also off Abaco's western shore is Gorda Cay, a Disney-owned island and cruise ship stop renamed Castaway Cay. Also in the vicinity is Moore's Island. On the Big Island of Abaco is Marsh Harbour, the Abacos' commercial hub and The Bahamas' third-largest city, plus the resort area of Treasure Cay. Both have airports. Mainland settlements include Coopers Town and Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Liberal Party
The Progressive Liberal Party (abbreviated PLP) is a populist and social liberal party in the Bahamas. Philip Davis is the leader of the party. History The PLP was founded in 1953 by William Cartwright, Cyril Stevenson, and Henry Milton Taylor. The PLP was the first national political party in the Bahamas. The party governed for 25 straight years from 1967 to 1992, as well as from 2002 to 2007 and 2012 to 2017. Leading the party to its first victory in 1967 was Lynden Pindling, the country's first Prime Minister. Perry Christie was Prime Minister of the Bahamas between 2 May 2002 and the 2007 general elections, when the party was defeated by the rival Free National Movement (FNM) which won 23 seats of the 41 seats. The FNM installed leader Hubert Ingraham as the Prime Minister. After defeat and one of its MPs leaving the party since, the PLP held 17 of the 41 seats in the Bahamas National Assembly. In the 2012 general election, the Progressive Liberals won a solid m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pinder II
John H. W. Pinder II is a Bahamian politician from the Progressive Liberal Party. Early life Pinder is a direct descendant of the first settlers of Hope Town and Cherokee Sound on the Abaco Islands. Career In the 2021 Bahamian general election, he was elected in Central and South Abaco. On 23 September 2021, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Tourism, Investments & Aviation. References See also * 14th Bahamian Parliament The 14th Bahamian Parliament is the current sitting of the Parliament of the Bahamas, Parliament of The Bahamas. It was elected in the 2021 Bahamian general election. Members MPs Senators https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/portal/public/the% ... Living people 21st-century Bahamian politicians Members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas Free National Movement politicians Bahamian people of British descent Progressive Liberal Party politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Bahamas-politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constituencies Of The Bahamas
The Bahamas House of Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of The Bahamas, an island country in the Caribbean. It is housed at the Bahamian Parliament Building in Nassau, the national capital. The current Assembly was elected by the general election held on 16 September 2021. The Assembly has 39 single-member constituencies and it uses the first-past-the-post system for elections. The Members of Parliament (MPs) serve five-year terms. The National Assembly's origins can be traced back to 1729 when a Representative Assembly was set up for what was then a British colony. It was formed with 24 members (16 for New Providence, and four each for Harbour Island and Eleuthera). The first election after the country got independence from the United Kingdom was in 1977, when it had 38 constituencies. Since then, it has had a varying number of constituencies in the assembly. For the 1987 and the 1992 elections, it had 49 constituencies. The current constituencies are b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Assembly Of The Bahamas
The Parliament of The Bahamas is the bicameral national parliament of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The parliament is formally made up of the sovereign (represented by the governor-general), an appointed Senate, and an elected House of Assembly. It currently sits at the Bahamian Parliament Building in Nassau, the national capital. The structure, functions, and procedures of the parliament are based on the Westminster system. History Originally inhabited by the Lucayan people, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people, the Bahamas were the site of Columbus's first landfall in the New World in 1492. Although the Spanish never colonized 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. In 1670 King Charles II granted the islands to the lords proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented the islands from the king with r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Bahamian General Election
General elections were held in the Bahamas on 2 May 2007. The result was an opposition victory, with the Free National Movement, led by former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, claiming 23 of the 41 seats. Incumbent Prime Minister Perry Christie conceded defeat in a phone call to his rival. Ingraham was sworn into the office of Prime Minister on 4 May. Background The Bahamas is dominated by two parties: the left of center Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), and the right of center Free National Movement (FNM). The Free National Movement party came to power in the 1992 election, under the leadership of Hubert Ingraham. After winning the 1997 election and having now served 10 years as prime minister, Ingraham announced that he would step down from the FNM before the start of the 2002 election. Tommy Turnquest then took over the party leadership of the FNM, and many voters, including FNM supporters, felt that Turnquest was much "weaker" than the leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edison Key
Edison McGinnis Key (born abt. 1939) is a Bahamian politician and former Member of Parliament. He is best known for representing Central and South Abaco as a Member of Parliament. He served in various capacities during his 40-year political career, including two terms as a Senator and as chairman of the Bahamas Telecommunications Corporation (BaTelCo) and chair of the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC). Early life Key was born on 18 May 1938 in Abaco, Bahamas, the son of Bunyan and Lillian Key. London delegation In 1973, as the Bahamas prepared for independence from Britain, there was a movement by some residents of the Abaco Islands to secede from the rest of the Bahamas (and remain under British rule or become an independent territory). Key was one of five Abacoans, who formed a delegation to London, to counter claims that all Abacoans wished to secede. The separatist movement, which garnered some international attention, ultimately failed and Abaco be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free National Movement
The Free National Movement (abbreviated FNM) is a political party in the Bahamas formed in the early 1970s and led by Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield. The current leader of the party is Michael Pintard and the current deputy leader is Shanendon Cartwright. The Free National Movement first came to power in 1992 after contesting numerous general elections without success. The party swept the 2017 general election, winning 35 of the 39 seats in the Legislature, but won only 7 seats in 2021, 28 seats less than it had won in the 2017 elections. History The party was established at the home of Jimmy Shepherd on Spring Hills Farms in Fox Hill in 1971. The Free-PLP had been a breakaway group of eight MPs from the governing Progressive Liberal Party. This group, which was known as the "Dissident Eight", included Arthur Foulkes, Cecil Wallace-Whitfield, Warren J. Levarity, Maurice E. Moore, Curtis McMillan, James (Jimmy) Shepherd, Elwood Donaldson, and George Thompson. Following meeti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Bahamian General Election
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James Albury (politician)
James Albury (born 1 April 1986 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian pitcher for the Brisbane Bandits and the Oakland County Cruisers. Career Albury was signed as a 17-year-old to the Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League East, East Division. Founded in as one of the Ameri ... by Jon Deeble in 2003. He played two seasons with the GCL Red Sox going 5–0 with a 1.15 ERA in his first season. However, James struggled in his second season putting up 2–2 with a 4.83 ERA and was released at the end of 2005. James continued baseball in Australia with the Queensland Rams and played in the Greater Brisbane League with the Redlands Baseball Club, Redlands Rays before playing in the Frontier League with the Midwest Sliders in 2008 making the Frontier League East All-Star team. In his second season with the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Bahamian General Election
General elections were held in the Bahamas on 16 September 2021 to elect all 38 members of the House of Assembly. Around two hours after the polls closed, and results started to trickle in, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis conceded defeat, after results showed his party Free National Movement losing several seats they previously held. Since 1997, every election has resulted in a change of government. On 17 September Philip Davis of the Progressive Liberal Party was sworn in as prime minister. 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. In the run up to the 2021 election, there were plans to implement biometric I.D. Cards which could be us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coalition Of Independents
The Coalition Of Independents (abbreviated COI) is a populist and social liberal party in the Bahamas. Lincoln Bain is the leader of the party. History Bahamian Evolution was co-founded by Lincoln Bain, Charlotte Green, and Cara Ellis. The organization gained national attention through documentaries Bain wrote, produced, and directed. These documentaries sparked widespread discussions about the value and potential of the country's natural resources and sparked public concern. In March 2021, Bishop Walter Hanchell invited independent candidates and third-party representatives to discuss forming a coalition. The group agreed to collaborate, selecting a name and drafting a mission statement. Lincoln Bain was elected as the leader. The Coalition of Independents was officially launched in April 2021. In April 2025, the Coalition of Independents (COI) achieved a significant milestone when Iram Lewis, the Member of Parliament for Central Grand Bahama, announced his decision to wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
