The Bahamas in 2009Article Free Pass
|Area:||13,939 sq km (5,382 sq mi)|
|Population||(2009 est.): 342,000|
|Chief of state:||Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Arthur Dion Hanna|
|Head of government:||Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham|
In May 2009 The Bahamas submitted a claim to the United Nations for formal delineation of its maritime boundaries under the Law of the Sea regime, proposing to extend the limits of its continental shelf beyond the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone it had claimed in 2008. The Bahamas submitted a claim to the United Nations for formal delineation of its maritime boundaries under the Law of the Sea regime, proposing a 12-nautical-mile territorial sea limit and a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone. Negotiations on the proposal with other countries would be required; the area claimed overlapped into U.S., Haitian, Cuban, and Turks and Caicos waters. Cuba reportedly was preparing to drill in the Cay Sal Bank area that The Bahamas regarded as its own, thus adding urgency to the need to settle maritime boundaries on a permanent basis.
Like elsewhere in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) region, The Bahamas was moving ahead as fast as it could to expand the role of renewable energy in its energy matrix. By midyear the Bahamas Electricity Corporation had short-listed as many as 13 proposals for various types of renewable-energy projects (including solar, wind, biomass, and ocean wave), and in December it was still considering renewable-energy bids by six companies.
Privatization of government-owned assets was still on the agenda in the Caribbean, and The Bahamas proved no exception. In July it launched the process to sell 51% of the Bahamas Telecommunications Co. (BTC).
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