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The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov · Compared with the world

BahamasLimited data

The zeitgeist this week

What stands out in Bahamas’ news is Disasters and accidents (46.2%, 24× the world). The news sounds brighter than usual.

Bahamas’ zeitgeist, by theme

Each theme’s share of its news this week · Select a theme to see what’s inside it · How it’s counted

Mood

How the news sounds, and how people say they feel

What each theme makes the news feel

Disasters and accidentsNegative −2.9

Mostly fear, 1.5× the average

  • Anxiety0.9×
  • Fear1.5×
  • Anger1.0×
  • Sadness1.2×
Leaders and great powersMixed −0.5

Calmer than the average news, no feeling stands out

  • Anxiety1.1×
  • Fear0.7×
  • Anger1.0×
  • Sadness0.8×
Travel and getting awayPositive +2.6

Calmer than the average news, no feeling stands out

  • Anxiety0.5×
  • Fear0.4×
  • Anger0.3×
  • Sadness0.6×

Each bar compares a feeling with the average news here; the tick marks the average.

How the news sounds

Brighter than usual

Tone −0.26 · usual −0.50

  • Anxiety0.8× usual
  • Fear0.7× usual
  • Anger0.9× usual
  • Sadness1.0× usual
News · 326 · Indicative

Bahamas · The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov

Seen from inside and outside

How the world sees this country this week: the news abroad, pictures and videos.

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic country in the Caribbean located within the Lucayan Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The country comprises 700 islands, and more than 2,500 cays in the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Cuba and north-west of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The capital and largest city is Nassau on the island of New Providence.

From Wikipedia: The Bahamas · CC BY-SA 4.0

Pictures

  • Sign at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park commemorating hundreds of African-American slaves who escaped to freedom in the early 1820s in the Bahamas
    Sign at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park commemorating hundreds of African-American slaves who escaped to freedom in the early 1820s in the BahamasLeonard J. DeFrancisci · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Taino Beach, Grand Bahama Island
    Taino Beach, Grand Bahama IslandDidier Moïse · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Afro-Bahamian children at a local school
    Afro-Bahamian children at a local schoolMattletiss1976 · Public domain
  • Junkanoo celebration in Nassau
    Junkanoo celebration in NassauCC BY 2.0
  • The Straw Market in the capital Nassau.
    The Straw Market in the capital Nassau.ArnoldReinhold · CC BY 4.0
  • Landing of Columbus by John Vanderlyn, 1847. A depiction of Columbus' first landing, claiming possession of the New World for the Crown of Castile in…
    Landing of Columbus by John Vanderlyn, 1847. A depiction of Columbus' first landing, claiming possession of the New World for the Crown of Castile in…John Vanderlyn · Public domain

Photos from Wikipedia’s articles, on Wikimedia Commons

Bahamas · The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov

Who’s in the news

The people and organizations named in the most news stories about this place this week.

People

  1. Adam Robinson

    44 stories

  2. Rachael Reed

    29 stories

  3. Charmi Fehr

    23 stories

  4. Donald Trump

    19 stories

  5. King Charles

    18 stories

  6. Jeff Gregory

    17 stories

  7. Jeff Guzzetti

    14 stories

Organizations

  1. Supreme Court

    29 stories

  2. Royal Caribbean

    21 stories

  3. Progressive Liberal Party

    6.5× last week

    13 stories

  4. United Nations

    12 stories

  5. European Union

    New

    6 stories

Names found in the news by the GDELT Project

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