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Contents

1 List of Heads of Government of the Bahamas

2 Affiliations:-

3 Sources

4 See also

List of Heads of Government of the Bahamas

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
1955 to 1959	Roland Theodore Symonette, Chief Minister	UBP
1959 to 7 January 1964	Sir Roland Theodore Symonette, Prime Minister	UBP
Self-Government
7 January 1964 to 16 January 1967	Sir Roland Theodore Symonette, Prime Minister	UBP	nickname: Pop Symonette
16 January 1967 to 1969	Lynden Oscar Pindling, Prime Minister	PLP
The Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands
1969 to 10 July 1973	Lynden Oscar Pindling, Prime Minister	PLP
10 July 1973	Independence as The Commonwealth of The Bahamas
10 July 1973 to 1983	Lynden Oscar Pindling, Prime Minister	PLP
1983 to 21 August 1992	Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, Prime Minister	PLP
21 August 1992 to 3 May 2002	Hubert Alexander Ingraham, Prime Minister	FNM
3 May 2002 to present	Perry Gladstone Christie, Prime Minister	PLP

Affiliations:-


FNM	Free National Movement centre-right, conservative
PLP	Progressive Liberal Party centre-left, liberal, founded 1953
UBP	United Bahamian Party
CDR	Coalition of Democratic Reform founded 2000
AIM	Abaco Independence Movement Abaco Island regionalist, white, separatist to 1974
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Sources

http://www.rulers.org/
http://www.hk-bahamas.de/en/parties.php
http://www.politicalresources.net/bahamas.htm
Guinness Book of Kings Rulers & Statesmen, Clive Carpenter, Guinness Superlatives Ltd

Prime Minister Christie in Jamaica at Caricom (946 words)
	The Prime Minister said that the country had not decided when or if to ratify and that it was a matter for the Cabinet to decide.
	The Prime Minister in answer to the questions of the press about a claim that military aid from the US might be lost to The Bahamas in the form of $300,000 earmarked for lighting the runway in Inagua said that he had been advised that this was factually incorrect.
	The Prime Minister said that with regard to the $300,000 allocation, he was advised that those funds were previously earmarked under the assistance programme of the US to help with the fight against drugs unrelated to the issues of the International Criminal Court and the 30th June deadline to sign an Article 98 agreement.

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