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Front: Lynden O. Pindling (1930-2000), prime minister of Bahamas 1967-1992
Pindling, the son of a policeman, was a graduate of London University
with a law degree. As leader of the Progressive Liberal party, he
represented the large black majority in the Bahamas and became the country's
first prime minister of African descent in 1967. He served in that capacity for
25 years. Pindling led the Bahamas through a transition from a British colony
to independence in 1973. Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 1983.
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Front: Cecil Wallace-Whitfield (1930-1990), leader of Bahamas opposition party
Wallace-Whitfield served as Education Minister under the government
of Lynden O. Pindling. Disillusioned by the increasingly dictatorial tendencies
of the governing Progressive Liberal party, he resigned from his cabinet post.
He and other party dissidents formed the Free National Movement, which is
still in opposition.
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Bahamas, an archipelago of 3000 islands, cays and rocks located in the Atlantic
Ocean east of Florida and north of Cuba, was a British Colony. Became independent
and a member of the British Commonwealth in 1973. For a more detailed
country profile, see CIA World Factbook on Bahamas.
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