21.   Rose said the Bahamian government will investigate.

22.   The Bahamian government criticized the State Department decision to allow only three of the eight Cubans into the United States.

23.   The Bahamian government later welcomed the ship, but religious groups balked.

24.   The Bahamian government said it could no longer afford to house a growing refugee population.

25.   The Bahamian government is expected to invite U.S. agencies to join the investigation, Bachman said.

26.   The Bahamian government Saturday posted a hurricane watch for the northwest islands and hurricane warnings covered the British Turks and Caicos islands and the southeastern and central Bahamas.

27.   The Bahamian government has issued a liquidation order for the collapsed Gulf Union Bank after failing to find a suitable buyer for the Arab-owned institution.

28.   The new Bahamian government will re-examine laws tightening regulation of secretive offshore banks, to cut costs and red tape, the finance minister-designate said Sunday.

29.   The other five were detained by the Bahamian government.

30.   The pitcher has written to the Bahamian government seeking asylum in the Caribbean nation, Burrows said.