The Bahamas

implements and formulates banking and monetary policies ensuring growth of the UAE economy. Their focus is to maintain a fix exchange rate against the U.S. dollar. This will ensure a free convertibility into foreign currencies. The Central Bank of the Bahamas exchange rate is fundamental to the monetary policy of the bank. The objective is to maintain stable credit between the US dollar and the Bahamian. The foreign exchange continues to play a pivotal role when it comes to safeguarding the…

“Jimmy you need to go to sleep; it past your bedtime!” Ava anouced. “No! Not unless you tell me a store, and I mean a good store” Jimmy added. “ Fine; I’ll tell you a stupid bedtime store” Ava mumbled “ Yes. I finally get to listen to one of your stories!” Jimmy exclaimed. Ava started to tell the story. It started like this. Just like any other ordinary day all the gods and goddesses were doing their jobs. Tristete is the goddess of sadness; she was doing the thing she does daly, making…

Christopher Columbus founded the New World in 1492, when he first landed in the Bahamas. During this time period, people from the New World and Old World interconnected through the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange refers to a time period where crops, disease, technology, animals, and ideas were traded between the Old World and New World. The largest effect in the Columbian Exchange was crop exchange, although some believe the largest effect was disease. Crop exchange clearly made the…

& Wagnalls) John and Kelly had their first child in 1992, Jett, named after John’s love for flying and aircrafts. In 2000, they had a daughter named Ella Bleu and had a third child in 2010 named Benjamin. In 2009, during a family vacation in the Bahamas, tragedy struck the family. Their son, Jett, who was 16 years old at the time, had a seizure in the bathroom and hit his head on the bathtub causing Jett to die. Jett was diagnosed with Kawasaki disease at two years old and John confirmed after…

Caribbean Sea south of Florida, north of South America, and east of Central America and Mexico (“World Atlas,” 2015). The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) defines the “Caribbean” as its 33 destination members within the Caribbean Sea and also the Bahamas Islands and Bermuda within the Atlantic Ocean (Jayawardena & Ramajeesingh, 2003). The expansion of the tourism industry in the Caribbean has generated significant positive economic growth; however, researchers reveal the considerable…

of islands in the Western Atlantic, today known as the West Indies, several hundred miles off the southeast coast of what is modern day Florida. In fact, of the four voyages he made across the Atlantic, he never traveled any further north than the Bahamas. Discoverer is an accurate word when referencing Columbus, but it is an inaccurate description. Using only this one landfall to build a character portrait for the man is unjust, the legacy of his impact should be examined on a global scale. “No…

The year 1492 changed the world forever. Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the New World after mistakenly rerouting his course from Asia to a white sandy Island, presently called the Bahamas. He found the area inhabited by man who appeared to be similar to slaves from the Canary Islands. Henceforth, the world would be forever changed by tragedy, the creation a multinational trading industry, and raising Europe to global prominence. Columbus discovered the new world from a miscalculation about…

wherever the boat takes me.” “How many cruises you been on?” my grandma said. “I done lost count,” she said. “Each summer I spend about two weeks on a cruise. I have been almost everywhere. I have been on a cruise to Italy, Rome; Paris, France; The Bahamas, Nassau; and many other places. I have been to each one so many times, I stay on the boat instead of stepping out on the islands. It’s so relaxing up here; however, it does get boring at times. Yeah, I’ve been living easy in my old age;…

I started my educational career teaching high school children in the Bahamas, where I was born and raised. Because the island I lived on faced economic, health, and educational disparities, teaching, sometimes, was a bit of a struggle. At times, I felt like teaching was not enough to get children where they needed to be in the world of education and development. What was missing, in my opinion, was a school or educational psychologist or even a guidance counselor on staff to give children and…

Statistics revealed from the United Nations Human Development Index reported in 2001 showed a 95.5% adult and 97.3% youth literacy rate in The Bahamas. This represented the percentage of people who can, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple statement related to their everyday life. The literacy rate is indeed high but significantly poor literacy performance among high school graduates are increasing. Regarding to the number of High School certificates awarded, a high literacy…