They started making rum in the Bahamas using the formula smuggled out of Cuba, but struggled to build the brand internationally.
One of Young's ancestors is credited with bringing the first grapefruit to Florida from the Bahamas in the early 19th century.
"The most beautiful to me are the Bahamas, the vast glowing reefs of every shade of blue that exists, " he added.
Gangster Al Capone used Cuba in the 1920s, and compatriot Meyer Lansky found ports in Haiti and the Bahamas in the 1940s.
The United States has long been a destination for migrants from Haiti, with many sailing via the Bahamas or the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Clonaid was founded in 1997 in the Bahamas by the Raelians, a religious group that contends extraterrestrials used genetic engineering to create life on Earth.
Mandara came with 45 resort spas, which Fluxman has since expanded to 57, adding to resort spas Steiner operated at the Atlantis in the Bahamas and the Aladdin in Las Vegas.
The rest of the year the Ladds do trips in the Bahamas, the Costa Rica Pacific Coast, or train kayak instructors on the Jordan River in Israel, or do white water kayak surfing in the ocean.
The trusts are run from Chicago, yet have a legal presence in the Bahamas, where they have a Bahamian trustee--the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Trust Co. (Bahamas)--but engage the Chicago-based International Financial Advisors (IFA) for accounting, administrative work and financial advice.
South African millionaire Sol Kerzner's newly opened Atlantis, on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, sets the tone.
The Bahamas and favorites the United States were the fastest qualifiers in two minutes 58.87 seconds in heat two.
With 100m world silver medallist Kerron Stewart anchoring the team, they proved too strong for the Bahamas, with the Germans taking a surprise bronze.
Though never losing power, the ship was diverted to Freeport in the Bahamas, and the fire, which began in a mooring area, was extinguished just before 5 a.m.
The workers will fly in and out of Los Angeles International and board the ship with a sailor's card from the Bahamas, where the ship likely will be registered.
Peter Mumby of the University of Exeter, in England, and his colleagues looked at how the ecology of a coral reef in the Bahamas changed following the banning of fishing in 1986.
As Hurricane Sandy moves away from the Bahamas and toward the East Coast of the United States, forecasters with the National Weather Center are tracking the path of the storm, while FEMA offices from Atlanta to Boston are readying for a potential impact.
Because the Carnival Triumph is a Bahamian-flagged vessel, the Bahamas Maritime Authority is the primary investigative agency.
Ms Bogyay will be replacing Davidson L. Hepburn (Commonwealth of The Bahamas) who presided the 35th session.
The city's international airport, Ruzyne, (and the Nassau airport in the Bahamas) features in the film as the airport in Miami, Florida.
The ship will sail to the Bahamas and Florida in the winter.
Because the Carnival Triumph is a Bahamian-flagged vessel, the Bahamas Maritime Authority is the primary investigative agency and will work with the Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board.
Monday while it was heading to the Bahamas, sending guests to the decks under the night sky.
In 1973, the Bahamas attained full independence within the Commonwealth, having been a British colony since 1783.
Family offices also handle concierge duties: booking travel, finding a good real estate lawyer in the Bahamas, handling payroll for the Gulfstream crew and wrapping Christmas presents.
Good screening programmes in the Bahamas have helped to slow the infection rate, and drug treatments there and in Barbados that help to prevent pregnant mothers passing the disease to their children have been copied elsewhere.
The Bahamas won its way onto the list by making efforts to reduce human trafficking and expand national parks and protected areas, such as the Andros West Side National Park, which grew from 882, 000 acres to nearly 1.3 million acres.
As a result, two big projects in the Bahamas imported fully fitted rooms from the United States.
Neil McKinney, president of the Bahamas National Trust, which manages the country's resources, said sharks played an extremely important role in balancing the ecosystem.
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