For the same reason, carotenoid colors often predominate in ripe fruit after being unmasked by the disappearance of chlorophyll. Carotenoids give the characteristic color to carrots, corn, canaries, and daffodils, as well as egg yolks, rutabagas, buttercups, and bananas.
Overview. Bahamas is a Commonwealth, Constitutional, and Parliamentary Democracy whose current leader is Chief Executive Hubert Ingraham. The chief executive in Bahamas typically has a term length of 5 years. Bahamas's Legislature has 40 seats, and the last legislative elections were in 2007.
Local government elections take place once every three years in the Bahamas with the most recent elections taking place in June 2011 in which 391 positions were contested. The voting system used in local government elections is the first-past-the-post system.