It is worth remembering that the Bahamians are not the most legally-minded of nations. For example, it took them many years after their independence to ratify their extradition treaty with the UK - in 1981 the Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs made use of this loophole after he was kidnapped and taken to the Bahamas.
_____ From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of John Frewen-Lord Sent: 13 April 2009 06:58 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:44643] Re: Bahamas I believe the Bahamas is not (yet?) officially metric. I am a consultant (rather sporadically) on The Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau and the Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport. Everything is imperial, primarily because so much, including the building code, comes from, or is based on, what happens in Florida. Most products are in imperial sizes (again, these come from the USA). Road signs and car speedometers/odometers are still in miles. (As an unusual aside, and a recent phenomenon, many cars in the Bahamas are private import late model right hand drive Japanese cars - you drive on the left in the Bahamas, but most cars are left hand drive. These RHD Japanese imports come direct from Japan, where there are limits on how old a car can be, and of course all have metric speedometers/odometers - but I was told by a Bahamian government official that there is no law requiring them to be converted to miles.) I seem to remember reading something recently about the Bahamas converting to metric, but I do not believe that it has officially been mandated yet. Hope this helps. John F-L ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael <mailto:metricm...@verizon.net> Payne To: U.S. Metric <mailto:usma@colostate.edu> Association Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 3:36 AM Subject: [USMA:44639] Bahamas Anyone have any idea of what the law in the Bahamas states regarding the preferred or mandated system of measurement there? I looked at http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/statutes/statute_CHAPTER_338.html and could not find anything except some imported stuff had to be by the Bushel. I'll be going there next week and wanted to know what the situation was before I left. Thanks Mike Payne
