UBP supporter claimed victimisation by PLP leaves Bahamas for good – The Tale of Nola’s Baked Crabs 1973
Nola’s Baked Crabs was once a Bahamian culinary institution. Mrs. Nola Musgrove Daniel is historically credited, going as far back ...
Pindling chosen for greatness despite Randol Fawkes being senior PLP member for Southern District – July 1956
The evening of 8th July 1956 was a defining moment in Bahamian political history. That night would alter the lives ...
I am the darker brother – Majority Rule 10th January 1967
“…I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes. But I laugh, And ...
“If you saved me from drowning tomorrow that would not make me leave the PLP” Arthur Foulkes 1966
In 1966, Tribune editor Sir Etienne Dupuch and Bahamian Times editor Arthur Foulkes, engaged in a very public war of ...
Opposition in Bahamas is ‘ineffective’ November 1969
For democracy, true democracy, to be a fair and effective form of government, there has to be a robust Opposition ...
Deputy Prime Minister post created by Pindling to help save Majority Rule – 20th February 1968
By the close of 1967, Premier Pindling was already well aware that there were those within his PLP administration who ...
Two by-elections lost, facing defeat in a third, Majority Rule’s near collapse in 1968
“I ought to allow for rigor mortis to have set in….” These were the scathing remarks intended to scold Opposition ...
JFK Assassination Records – Pindling and the PLP investigated in FBI files 1967
In 1992, the United States Congress ordered that records related to the 1963 assassination of Kennedy would remained sealed, in ...
White man parks Sidney Poitier’s car after black hotel porter REFUSED – Nassau 1964
There are some stories, in Bahamian history, which have come to epitomise what some have termed “black crab syndrome”. There ...
Historical ties between PLP Bermuda and PLP Bahamas as told by L.O. 1965
In October 2022, members of the Bahamas’s Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), headed by Prime Minister Philip Davis arrived in Bermuda ...
Pindling Snatches Immigration From DPM Hanna, Pulls Finance from Carlton Francis – February 1973
In 1973, within the quiet revolution of tremendous sociopolitical change, there was also turmoil brewing within the political inner circle ...
A young Judson Eneas, jailed in Nashville along with civil rights great John Robert Lewis for protesting against racial segregation in restaurants April 1964
In April 2020, the life of Dr. Judson Frazier Eneas, (April 18, 1947 - April 5, 2020) eminent Bahamian physician ...
PLP Party was born on East Street not Long Island 1953
They may have been Long Island boys by birth, but the political party they founded, was born, in an old ...
Sidney Poitier’s contribution to Majority Rule 1964
Politically speaking, although 1962 began with much promise, by the end of the year, it had dealt a devastating blow ...
Doris Johnson, a modern, emancipated woman 1964, posthumously a National Hero in 2023
Dame Doris Johnson (1921-1983) was recently posthumously honoured, in the 50th anniversary—2023 Independence National Honours—with the distinguished Order of National ...
Independence Euphoria Marred By Dark Drugs Decade
Between 1978 and 1982, the euphoria of our 1973 national independence, had somehow dissipated. What took its place, some have ...
A Nation Is Born – The Definitive Bahamian Independence Album 1973
In early 1973, as the Bahamas was fast approaching that very first Independence Day, scheduled for 10th July 1973, the ...
Stafford Sands was lawyer behind development of Lyford Cay 1950
When the true history books are finally written on the under the table land deals, government kickbacks, collusion, bribery and ...
From the hands of poor negro children picking cotton to Bay Street high fashion store Mademoiselle 1958
Few images have pricked the moral consciousness of 20th century America, more than photos of poor negroes - men, women ...
National anthem had to be approved by England and that awkward aquamarine we still can’t get right some fifty years later 1973
In the decades following that very first national independence, a debate arose, over the meaning of the black triangle in ...
Music as Identity: Should Bahamian Music Officially Be Called Goombay?
One can argue that independence, in 1973, had many goals to accomplish. Within that political exercise, negotiating sovereignty away from ...
Sidney Poitier sadly loses father and brother then gets letter over unpaid funeral expenses 1961
December 1961 became a particularly difficult period for Bahamian actor Sir Sidney Poitier. Indeed, this was so for the entire ...
House of Assembly and Senate 1971-72: PLP, UBP, Free PLP, Labour and Independent
Prior to the general elections of 19th September 1972, an extraordinary group of people sat in the House of Assembly ...
Largest Land Transfer Since Columbus Come Tief Up All We Land – H. G. Christie Transfers 2,800 Acres To E. P. Taylor of Lyford Cay 1956
‘They tief every gaddamn bit… all of it was once we Crown Land,’ my Grammy used to say. ‘And there ...
Loftus Roker told ‘boy come back when you grow up’ withdraws from election 1956
In 1956, the newly formed Progressive Liberal Party were actively preparing for the June general elections. The Party, was effectively ...
PLP Founder Forced To Resign From HOA After Sentenced To Four Years For Multiple Land Scams 1956
William W. Cartwright was elected, as the Member for Cat Island, in the 1949. Cartwright ran as an Independent. He ...
Clement T. Maynard, successful contractor, dies at home on Kemp Road in 1946
Clement Travelyan Maynard became a successful builder and large scale contractor, in New Providence, in the early 1900s. His company, ...
1962 – Demand for Crown Land, Renaming Hog Island, Smuggling, Help For Family of Murdered Police Officer, Baptisms and Elections
1962 was a long awaited election year. Hostile political lines had been drawn between the governing United Bahamian Party and ...
A young Sir Franklyn R. Wilson and Unicoll, a Nassau-based movement of young people 1967
Among the after-effects of January 1967— a tumultuous period in Bahamian political history, known as ‘The Quiet Revolution,’ —-some very ...
Bahamian Who Died At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 25th April 1961 – What was he doing there?
Charles Nathaniel Albury was born in Matthew Town, Inagua on 12th February 1912. Albury was 49 years, 2 months and ...
Nerve Gas Ship Dump Cargo Near Abaco Brings Unexpected Opportunity To Whisper Independence – 16th August 1970
By 1970, some twenty-five years had passed since the Second Great War. Memories were beginning to fade. The great reconstruction ...
Bahamas Murder Counts 1963 to 2024
Bahamians have become inured to murder. Tears shed in shock or sadness don’t last long. They can’t really. Remember, this ...
Bravery of African King Mulay Abdelmalek – Battle of Three Kings – Morocco 1578
In 1492, the defeat of the Moors of Granada was complete. After ten long years of wars —-Catholicism against Mohammedans ...
‘Come Outside So I Could Bust You In Your Mouth’ says PM Pindling to Michael Lightbourne MP 1975
‘Who run you hot’ is a common Bahamian saying. It simply means, who or what has made you angry… really ...
Soldier Road was Whitfield’s Road and Bernard Road was Bannard’s Road and Wulff Road was Wolf’s Road 1853
In 1853, James Malcolm claimed ownership of lands which contained: Whitfield’s Road, now called Soldier Road; and Bannard’s Road, now ...
“The Crazy Hill” Was Once A Real Place 1897
“The Crazy Hill” for any Bahamian kid growing up, in the hundred years or so since it was occupied in ...
Freedom Park, Fox Hill Dedicated in 1967 Sits On Historical Cemetery
Where Freedom Park in Fox Hill, Nassau, sits today, there once was a historically significant burial place. In 1967, new ...
“After long time I will go and rake up the Bones” Bodies of hurricane drowned wash ashore on Berry Islands -August 1899
In the first half year of 1899, fate had already racked up its share of tragic drownings. A handful of ...
Bahamian born PFC Norman Darling killed by a suicide bomber – Baghdad, Iraq 29 April 2004
Bahamian born, Norman B. Darling, was only 29 years old in April 2004, when, as a Private First Class, in ...
Stephen Dillet’s Outside Children – Myth or Reality? Whatever happened to his Slaves? Was Stephen the first ‘Dillet’ in The Bahamas?
Stephen Dillet had an interesting personal life, if anecdotal evidence is to be believed. To fully understand what is proving ...
First Bahamian Knighted in 1873 Dies From Mystery Mental Illness 1879
Sir William Henry Doyle was 50 years old, a proper age, all things considered, when, in 1873, he became the ...
The Many Hats of Stephen Dillet,… but was he also an angry Arsonist in 1825?
Bahamians have, not too surprisingly, put a lot of stock into the historical personality that was Stephen Dillet. The reasons ...
The Hon. Lewis Kerr legitimises his mulatto slave daughter Eliza Ann 1826
The fate of mulatto children —the children of white slaveowners— was as precarious as any other slave. All depended on ...
Did Annie W. Dillet meet Abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Boston in October 1906?
In 1906, the Harriet Tubman Union held a reception, in Boston, for Mrs. Annie W. Dillet, President of the Bahama ...
McCabe’s Curse on Nassau 1814
According to historical lore, McCabe’s Curse on Nassau, was penned in the year 1814. The Tribune 24th NOVEMBER 1924 “And ...
Mercedes Elizabeth Sands – only child of Sir Stafford – born 17th July 1942
Sir Stafford Sands, remains one of the most compelling and controversial personalities, in modern Bahamian history. Arguably, his contribution to ...
Murder-Suicide 1836 – Ensign John Foss (white Englishman) shoots Mary Thomson, his black common law wife
In 1836, a shocking case of domestic violence, a murder-suicide, was revealed, during a Coroner’s Inquest on Monday 22nd August ...
Runaway White Slaves – Wilhelm and Muller (Germans) – Nassau 1805
How and why two German men, became runaway white slaves, in Nassau, in 1805, is not so strange as one ...
First Cohort of Girls Welcomed At St. Augustine’s College 1967
In 1967, St. Augustine’s College, introduced co-instructional education, into its all-boys day and boarding school. By that year, the school ...
Eustace Duvallier 18, Native of Haiti Hanged For Murder 1905
By May 1905, Eustace Duvallier, a native of Haiti, had been living, with his mother and sister for four years ...
Cyril Poitier (1911-1991) Brother Who Help To Raise Sir Sidney Poitier in Miami Died in 1991 at 80 years old
Cyril Poitier, was the eldest of eight brothers and sisters, born to Reginald and Evelyn Poitier of Cat Island. Cyril ...
PLP Very FIRST Director of Communications was a white man, a fixer, named David Probinksy – January 1967
David Probinksy, was a onetime Miami night club owner, catering to coloureds, in the 1950s. By 1965, Probinksy had became ...
‘UBP is a hooked fish, club it over the head, lest it gain strength and jump out the boat’ Pindling 1967
Oddly enough, the UBP were celebrating in September 1967. They were circling, the House of Assembly, like a shark that ...
Premier Lynden Pindling and Speaker of the House, A. R. Braynen Needed Bodyguards After 1967 Elections
Despite all outward appearances, there was a storm brewing over New Providence in 1967. The January general election ushered in ...
60 Government Schools, 27 Private Schools, 4 High Schools, 280 Churches in population of just 55,190 – Bahamas 1902
In 1902, the Bahama Islands, per capita, was probably the most educated and most churched country/colony in the world. Population ...
First Woman In Bahamian History to Apply for Jury Service – Mrs. Zoe Maynard 1968
Jury service, was once the sole domain of men of property, in The Bahamas. Despite women finally getting the right ...
“Meaho” an African Dies of Starvation in Grant’s Town 1837
Life is ‘SOLITARY, POOR, NASTY, BRUTISH, AND SHORT’ so says philosopher Thomas Hobbes in 1651. In January 1837, an African ...
Henry Forbes, a free black man and his runaway son Henry 1809
Being a parent, in 1800s Bahamas, was apparently as complicated as it is today. Strong-willed children—or as Bahamians like to ...
Nancy Gambier, former slave and wet nurse to Lord James Gambier dies in Nassau 1810
Nancy Gambier died a free black woman. She certainly earned it. Nancy was wet nurse and nanny to James, Lord ...
Slaves of Prospect Hill Sold including Adam 7 and Charity 3 – May the Ancestors Be Praised 1827
That same Prospect Ridge. That small hill connecting West Bay Street to John F Kennedy Drive, in Nassau, was once ...
Priscilla Munnings, Free Black Woman, Hanged In 1825 Convicted Under Copyright Law
Why was Priscilla Munnings, a free black woman, hanged in August 1825, under a 1710 British copyright law - the ...
William Campbell Adderley 1889 and Cleophas Adderley (UBP) 1967 – Black Representatives For City District, Nassau
William Campbell Adderley (1846-1892) MHA for City District (1889 until sudden death 1892) and Cleophas Adderley (elected 1967 by-election and ...
‘The New Year’ 30th December 1899 Poem by Arthur E. Leslie
In 1899, Arthur E. Leslie, a coloured man, was a music and mathematics teacher in Savannah Sound, Eleuthera. Leslie was ...
Bahamian Progressive League – Present Gold Watch to Wounded Coloured WW1 Soldier – Pt. John Demeritte and Pays Tribute to Dr. William Archibald Pitt 1917
The Bahamian Progressive League began as a political ideal, a community collective, and what would be referred to today, as ...
Tandem Falls at Queen’s Staircase – Nassau’s Newest Attraction Opens March 1967
Tandem Falls, at the Queen’s Staircase in Nassau, opened in March 1967. It was a spectacular multi-levelled constructed waterfall, highlighted ...
Liberated Africans – America Perpall, Chance Harvey and Alliday Adderley, Guilleam Rahming – Rest With The Ancestors
Precious little is known about the intimate lives of Nassau’s Liberated Africans. They were settled from captured slave ships - ...
Liberated Africans – Peter Pinder and Hercules Charles Pinder – Land Owners and Monied Contemporaries of Alliday Adderley
Liberated Africans changed the ethnic, social and economic landscape of New Providence. As they were settled, by the British, in ...
Bahamas Population 27,519 with 13,071 Vaccinated in 1851
The 1851 census was particularly detailed. Of note, was the need for the government to assess the number of able ...
Mrs. Edith Bertram – First Woman Appointed To A Public Board in The Bahamas Ignited A Firestorm 1903
In January 1903, Mrs. Edith Bertram became the first woman, in the history of the Bahama Islands, to be appointed ...
Three Generations of Sands – Sir James, Mr. Stafford and Sir Stafford
Sir James Patrick Sands was born 1859 in Nassau. He spent the better part, of his first twenty years, in ...
Death Granted Sisal Patent and Crown Land in Abaco 1889
Death came to the Bahama Islands in 1889. William Ephraim Death, an engineer with a most striking name, from Leicester ...
FOR SALE – Entire FOX HILL 1,200 acres renamed Sandilands by Order of the Bank 1850
In 1850, Robert Sandilands had been forced to sell all 1,200 acres of Fox Hill, renamed Sandilands. Robert Sandilands in ...
Almost Failed Suicides… A Long Bahamian History of Despair in So-Called Paradise
A long, miserable history of suicide lies buried in Bahamian history. Something about the promise of so-called paradise never quite ...
Bahamian, Haitian, Barbadian and Guyanese form “Ballot Box Party” in Grant’s Town – Political Party with Chairman Capt. Stephen A. Dillet 1924
Captain Stephen Albert Dillet was Bahamian. Lewis W. Duvalier news editor of the Tribune was Haitian. Robert M. Bailey was ...
Sidney Poitier’s Daddy ‘Reginald James Poitier’ was the largest tomato grower on Cat Island 1924
World famous, Bahamian born actor, Sir Sidney Poitier, was the youngest of seven children born to Mr. Reginald J. Poitier ...
Young, Gifted and Black – Thaddeus Toote, MHA 1924
Thaddeus Augustus Toote, the younger, was a man born before his time. Toote displayed an attitude and confidence that belied ...
H. N. Chipman Turns “Track Dunmore” Into Chippingham Town 1924
Chippingham was once a horse racing and polo track called Track Dunmore. When Track Dunmore opened in 1915, it was ...
Boy Eaten By Dogs, Man Eaten By Sharks and A Face Slashed To Ribbons – 1887
In 1887, Adelaide was a small, but growing settlement. Residents there were farmers. Cutoff from the city of Nassau by ...
44 Bahamians Help To Build A Socially Significant Paradise Island Bridge – Why Don’t We Know Their Names?
Something to be proud of surely. Bahamian labour built the Paradise Island Bridge in 1966 to 1967. Some 44 Bahamians ...
Merceline Dahl Was Always Smart Even In 1965 At Just 16 Years Old
One of the most accomplished women, in the modern Bahamas, is Dr. Merceline Dahl-Regis. Few people, outside of the medical ...
BoBo del Monte “Love’s Last Dream” Filmed In Nassau 1922 Builds Theatres Bay Street and Grants Town
Love’s Last Dream was filmed in Nassau in 1922, during the great era of the silent movie. Talking movies, that ...
Creator of City Market Foodstore Mr. Stafford Sands 77 Dies From Stroke 1965
Mr. Stafford Sands, the creator of City Market Foodstores, was the third son of the Hon. Sir James Patrick Sands ...
“A politician must be a Christian and a crook” L. W. Young (30 years in the House of Assembly) April 1949
Leon Walton Young had been in the House of Assembly for 30 years. He first sat as a representative in ...
1959 – Cotton Bay, Lyford Cay, Coral Harbour, Cat Cay, Hog Island, Andros, Bimini, Whale Cay, Wallace Groves, French Leave and more massive property developments by foreign investors
Foreign direct investment built the modern Bahamas. Without foreign investment, it is not too difficult to imagine what would have ...
“Democratise the [Public] Boards… train new people in the functions of government so that they may be prepared to accept responsibilities and provide stable leadership in the future” Etienne Dupuch 1957
In 1957, appointments to Public Boards were still done exclusively by the British appointed Governor, whoever he happened to be, ...
Poem about Nassau broke and bored after helping southern slaveowners during American Civil War 1866
Boom and Bust is a big part of The Bahamas story. When the American Civil War ended, the good times ...
“Song of the John Canoes” by Dorothy Kernochan 1950
John Canoe’s origins remains a mystery, however one thing is certain, Bahamians perfected it. These Islands turned John Canoe into ...
“Adieu, Dear Father” by P. Anthony White 1957
Journalist Paul Anthony White penned a most beautiful, heart wrenching poem “Adieu, Dear Father” in 1957. Evoking a strong emotional ...
First Traffic Light in Nassau Delayed Until Government Gets All The Parts 1965
Oddly enough, the first patented, automatic traffic light was invented by a black man, who also happened to be the ...
Freeport’s New Model City But This Time It Was 1,000 Low Cost Homes For Blacks Who Helped Build Freeport 1965
Just ten years after the Hawksbill Creek Agreement was signed on 4th August 1955, The Bahamas government had to go ...
Ortland H. Bodie Sr. Reported To Buy Englertson Estate with its 1,200 50×100 Lots – 1949
J. S. Engler was the earliest subdivision developer, catering to negroes, in Nassau. In 1922, he saw an opportunity and ...
A. R. Braynen’s Only Son Changes His Name No Longer Wanting to be a Braynen 1949
Alvin Rudolph Braynen should really be considered a national hero. There should be something significant named after him, where his ...
‘Who told you that the Bahamas belonged to Bahamians?!’ asks A. R. Braynen in House of Assembly 1950
Under British administration, better known as, colonialism, the cost of all foreign public service appointments, fell on the Bahamian government ...
100 years ago – Nassau’s Oolitic Limestone DISCOVERED and Exported 1921
As early as 1921, it was discovered that New Providence had an incredibly valuable natural resource. This natural resource was ...
“Free Things Kill Nassau People” Roland T. Symonette MHA for New Providence East 1949
In May 1949, an important economic report was tabled in the House of Assembly. Little did they know at the ...
Some in House of Assembly were “men born in the bush and grew up eating conch and sapodillas” says T. A. Toote 1921
In November 1921, Assembly Members were debating whether or not, an electricity building contract, had been drafted by the Attorney ...
St. Augustine’s College, Fox Hill named after St. Augustine of Canterbury 1947 – By 1950 Leviticus Adderley was its top Student
St. Augustine’s was founded in 1946 by Father Frederic Frey. By 1947, it was a busy, working monastery and Boys’ ...
Ruth Married William Munnings, After He Comes Out Of Jail For ‘Chapping’ Her Mother With Cutlass in 1949 – Then He Murders Her Child and Hangs in 1959
Domestic violence always has a long, sad and brutal history. It is a phenomenon which pays itself forward. It is ...
William Shot Daughter Willamae, Afterward Was More Concerned His Puppy Was Okay 1959
Domestic violence shapes a nation, as much as, any given social or economic factor. It gouges out a brutal place ...
‘Charter a plane, send 300 SANDWICHES’ as Whole Families and Dynasties Win Seats In 1949 House of Assembly
Sandwiches meant money in 1949. Crisp pound notes, legal currency, to be exact! 1949 was also the year of bribery, ...
1946 Child Marriage Still Legal in Bahamas Two Decades After Change in Britain
By 1946, The Bahamas was almost twenty years behind Britain, in amending its minimum age for marriage laws. For girls, ...
Hundreds of Arranged Marriages In Nassau To Get Greek Nationals Into America 1947, 1948, 1949 and longer
Necessity is the mother of invention, as an old saying goes. Necessity, in The Bahamas, in the late 1940s, was ...
Newly Appointed Magistrate Turnquest Has Disturbing Case On First Day At Work – October 1959
On October 9, 1959, Orville Turnquest, a young lawyer, took his seat for the very first time as Acting Magistrate ...
Jailor of Runaway Slaves Saw Opportunity To Make Money – He Opened School For Free Coloured Children Charging 8 shillings per month
Free people of colour, or the mixed raced, in Nassau, were in desperate need of schooling for their children. So ...
7,000 Attend Triple Hanging On Bay Street 1827 and 3,000 Attend Gwyn Hanging on Eastern Parade 1850
As late as 1900, felony offences, such as rape and larceny, under Bahamian law, were punishable by hanging. This coincided ...
Taylor and Stevenson Who Started the PLP Run AGAINST PLP in Historic 1967 Elections
Part of the history of the PLP, in an unexpected way, resembles something akin to a pivotal point, in the ...
Only the PLP Could Have Started Rumour That Caused 700 Squatters To Try Claim Pop Symonette Land – 1967
Juicy government leaks only truly began with the PLP government in 1967. Don’t believe me? Well, consider that, for the ...
Rape Murder of 14-year-old Teresetta McGregor – Crime Which Should Have Shocked The Bahamas For A Generation – But Didn’t 1967
There are no statues to the many innocents, who have died at the hands of predators, pedophiles and domestic brutalisers ...
Bahamians Fought in the Vietnam War 1967
The Vietnam War, grew to become an unpopular war, for Americans. It lasted 19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and ...
PLP Congratulated on ‘New Day’ Win As Over 2,000 Work Permits Are Approved In First Six Months While Shantytowns Expand – 1967
‘Square Deal’ was the Progressive Liberal Party’s campaign slogan for the 1967 General Elections. For many, at the time, there ...
Where the people’s Money GONE? Here’s where YOUR money gone! 1967
Just 72 hours before the 10th January 1967 general elections, Minister of Finance, Sir Stafford Sands, decided to tell the ...
A Second Queen’s Staircase Proposed To Honour Bahamians Killed In World War I – 1921
The death of Private Allen Johnson, from Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera was announced in the Nassau newspapers of 20th July 1916, ...
On the shoulders of Giants: Leon E. H. Dupuch, father of Sir Etienne and Founder of The Tribune newspaper dies 1914
When the roll of heroes, legends, creators and change makers, is called, Leon Edward Hartman Dupuch, Founder and Editor of ...
Bahamian Negro Emigrated To Canada attended McGill University 1921
Bahamians have been emigrating to Canada for over 100 years. Consider that, in 1910, more than 100 years ago, a ...
Convene ARAGONITE Commission of Economic Inquiry as a matter of Public Transparency – Then, let the chips fall where they may!
There needs to be a Commission of Economic Inquiry, convened, as a matter of urgent public interest and promised transparency, ...
Historical Lie of the Selfless Politician in 1967 Produced Problem of Political Demigods in the Modern Day
How do you get people, generations in fact, to believe something that is patently untrue. A lie. A bold faced, ...
‘No Votes’ Paul Adderley’s Party Defeat in 1967 Not One Candidate Got His Deposit Back
1967 was a tough year to be a political third party. The United Bahamian Party had old money at their ...
First 3 Bahamian Depositors When Royal Bank of Canada (Bahamas) Opened 1908
Royal Bank of Canada (Bahamas) RBC, opened its doors to savings customers on 2nd November 1908. The bank’s first three ...
Sidney Poitier Stands Godfather For Premier Lynden Pindling’s Youngest – 10th December 1967
In The Bahamas, by 10th December 1967, other than Premier Lynden Pindling, the most famous Bahamian was Hollywood actor Sidney ...
Milo Butler’s “seclusively segregated” draws guffaws from Opposition UBP, then Cecil, Foulkes, Hanna and Clarence Bain jumped in 1967
The Bahamas doesn’t need lectures in political democracy - it can give lectures. For three hundred years now, and counting, ...
Savaletta Hanna – forged will of black, illiterate, poor farmer and LAND – You know how it ends – Freeport 1967
Savaletta Lewis Hanna died of a stroke on 30th December 1953. She was 80 years old. Savaletta would have been ...
Stafford Sands was so mad after UBP lost in 1967, he sold the lucrative monopoly City Markets
Politics in The Bahamas isn’t for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart. When your political party loses, there is ...
Advertisement for Principal of new College of Bahamas – Salary B$14,000 per year – 1969
From 1969, it was always the dream that the new College of the Bahamas, would eventually become a University of ...
Dr. John Coakley’s Slave Branded On The Chest With I.C.
Long before the colonial administrative system for slave registration was introduced, there was quite an elaborate information network for the ...
Dichotomies During Slavery: Sold, Runaway, Revered – Mackay, Maria and Flora 1808
In 1808, three women, Flora, Maria and Mackay, all slaves, offer an altogether common picture surrounding the institution of slavery ...
Barak Morton, William Whylly and other Planters who owed Government for granted land as Slavery ended 1834
“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's ...
Silver Cup Made In London Given To James Carmichael Smyth by Free Coloured Inhabitants of Bahamas 1834
By March 1833, the Bahamas Assembly, who unequivocally loathed Governor, Sir James Carmichael Smyth, had succeeded in having his governorship ...
Bahamas Assembly Pays £36 To Stop Slave Compensation Claim For Negro Hanged Four Days After Emancipation 1835
Castletown Roberts, a slave, was hung on August 5th, 1834. It was a Tuesday. Castletown was hung, from the top ...
Mary Ann, slave of Member of Assembly for Exuma, delivered twins and triplets 1835
Mary Ann was a slave on the island of Exuma. She was the property of Henderson Ferguson, who became a ...
Friday 22nd. June, 1832, Columbus Statue Erected Amid Battle Over Slavery Between Assembly and Governor Carmichael Smyth
On 22nd June, 1832, a statue of Christopher Columbus, was unveiled, at Government House for the very first time. While ...
Photos of The General Strike of 1958
The General Strike of 1958, initially began as a taxicab strike. The government created and politically appointed, Airports Board, gave ...
Vote Granted To Murray G. Farquharson, Free Person of Colour, By An Act of the Assembly Was Undoubtedly Political 1830
In January 1830, Murray G. Farquharson, a free, person of colour, was politically gifted with one of the highest honours ...
Elections 1832 – Fights, Cheating, Negroes and Coloureds Vote and Riot, Candidates Beaten Up, Winners Woke Up As Losers
Freeholder blacks and coloureds, in the Bahama Islands, voted in 1832 - a full two years - before the end ...
Turks and Caicos Forced To Pay Separation Debt To Nassau To Be Free Of Bahama Islands 1848
Independence debt or Separation debt, however one wishes to call it, historically speaking, meant that territories were forced to pay ...
Crimes of Slaves, Free Blacks and Whites in Mid-Colonial 1800s Bahamas
During the 1800s, the mid-colonial era of the Bahamas, theft of property, was a very serious a crime. Serious theft, ...
General Elections 1962 – UBP Wax Lyrical About Losing – Winning Came As A Surprise
By mid-year, 1961, the United Bahamian Party, was undoubtedly feeling the cold tide of political change, swirling around them. General ...
Bahamian Millionaires Run For Parliament 1982, 1987, 2007, 2012 and 2021
In 1982, the number of self-declared millionaires to the total number of candidates, vying for the 43 available parliamentary seats ...
17-year-old A. F. Adderley Wins Top Essay Prize Denstone College, England 1909
The extraordinary life and achievements of Alfred Francis Adderley continue to reveal themselves. In an era of colonial British Bahamian ...
Tartan To Commemorate Bahamian-Scottish Heritage Officially Recognised 1966
Scottish-Bahamian heritage, survives in The Bahamas today, through many historical surnames, as well as, a tartan print, officially recognised by ...
A Clever Man Marries A Drunkard – A Week Later One Of Them Is Dead – Was it Murder? 1881
Murder is a tricky business - ask anyone serving 20 to life in prison - if you don’t believe me ...
Government Tries But Fails To Recover Money Embezzled by Jailed Member of Assembly Thomas N. G. Clare 1891
Thomas Narcisse George Clare was one of the youngest men ever to be elected to the House of Assembly. Born ...
Member Of Assembly Convicted of ‘Tiefin’ Da People’s Money’ Election Declared Void 1890
In 1889, the conviction of Thomas Narcisse George Clare for ‘tiefin’ da people’s money’ while in public office, caused his ...
Rosiliza Price, 100-year-old Great-Grandmother of Sprinter Tommy Robinson loses claim to valuable acres on Paradise Island in favour of War Time Nazi Sympathiser Alex Wenner-Gren 1961
100-year-old Ms. Rosiliza Price went to her grave fighting for the generation rights to a valuable strip of land on ...
When Sir Roland Rejected Harry Oakes’s Daughter’s Deal For Her Own Casino Licence In Exchange For Education Money 1965
If truth be told, Harry Oakes’s money and influence, resided in The Bahamas longer than the man himself. More than ...
“Spottie” Most Famous Potcake Adopted From Nassau By Movie Actor Peter Lawford 1938
In The Bahamas, street dogs, once called simply wild dogs, then Nassau dogs or Bahama dogs are now commonly referred ...
Black Bahamian Bootleggers’ Money Did Not Turn Into Generation Wealth – Why?
Black Bahamian rum-runners or bootleggers, made a lot of money - it just didn’t last. There are quite straightforward explanations ...
Year The Bahamas Entered Billion Dollar GDP Club and Largest Single Jump In GDP Brought Unwanted Attention To Offshore Banking Sector
Is the naked Bahamas, still a wealthy country? That is, without its golden, dream coat of foreign money and foreign ...
“Represents the enterprise and determination of the Bahamian people to develop and process the rich resources of land and sea…” 1973
One of the best interpretations, as to what the colours of the Bahamian flag signify, doesn’t invent adoration for symbols ...
Bahamians Samuel Kard, colored, Jew and Simon Brown, white, Protestant Forced to convert to Catholicism Hours Before Executed in Cuba 1873
Maybe, Bahamians Samuel Kard and Simon Brown, were simply hapless ship workers, caught up in world events, finding themselves, albeit ...
Founder of Sandilands Village and FoxHill —Justice Robert Sandilands Had To Find God After Getting Shot For Being Biggety – 1831
Robert Sandilands arrived in the Bahama Islands in 1830. Sandilands was a rich slave owner and plantation owner. This earned ...
Account Number 505 – My Father’s Bank Book 1967-1973
For that generation of Bahamians, born in 1943 like my dad, the bank book represented unique hopes and aspirations. 1943 ...
William Anthony Musgrave Sheriff Wins City of Nassau Election Unopposed With 55 Votes Then Immediately Introduces A Bill To Ensure His Pension 1880
Colonialism represented a type of oneness, in terms of the administration of territories. Colonialism was also a great career builder ...
Former Slave Sharper Montell and his former slave masters Francis Montell and Son 1864
By 1864, slavery in the Bahama Islands, had only been abolished some 30 years. This was no time at all ...
Governor John Gregory Dies After Catching Yellow Fever At Funeral Of Man Who Died From Yellow Fever – Nassau July 1853
Bahamas Governor John Gregory took ill with yellow fever on Monday. Got worse on Tuesday. Rallied on Wednesday. Declined on ...
The Executive has no power to enforce compulsory vaccination – October 1864
In October 1864, a war of words erupted over commentary posted in the local Nassau newspaper. The very inference that ...
As Negroes Realised Political Power, Bahama Friendly Society and Anglo-African League Engage in a Public War of Words on Emancipation Day 1888
By 1888, it had been approximately fifty years, since the early end of slave apprenticeship. Many changes to the negro ...
Earliest Black Student at St. Catherine’s College Cambridge was Bahamian Alfred Francis Adderley 1912
To this very day, according to St. Catherine’s College Cambridge’s website, there is an academic prize, established by a legacy ...
First of August Eventually Became Emancipation Day
The anniversary of the abolition of slavery, in The Bahamas, was originally called ‘The First of August.’ It would be ...
Nassau Negro Working On Blockade Boat Refuses Confederate Money For His Pineapples and Nassau Man Kept His Confederate Flag for 60 years
Slavery had been abolished in the British West Indies in 1834. By 1863, some 29 years later, a new generation ...
Pindling Planned Protest For Prince Philip’s First Visit to Bahamas April 1959
The news of the passing of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Her Majesty, Queen ...
Henry Milton Taylor Founder of PLP Party in 1953 Formally Joins UBP Party in 1971
In 1971, Henry Milton Taylor, founding member of the Progressive Liberal Party in 1953, was rueing the day that he ...
The White Man’s Economics- UBP $10 million Government Surplus in 1967 But Still Voted Out Boasting 75% Negro Membership
1967 wasn’t about economics; but by 1970 it was. The general elections of January 1967 was a fight over love ...
Dr. Horace Perigord and Dr. Alonzo Holly, Haitian Consuls To Bahamas at Its Strategic Southern Gateway of Inagua
Haitian diplomats to The Bahamas, in the early 1900s, were enormously distinguished men. More than career civil servants or political ...
Ousted Haitian President General Firmin Flees To Inagua With Over 300 Hundred Who Never Left 1902
Haiti’s history of revolutions and revolutionary leaders is a long one. In 1902, one ousted Haitian leader, General Joseph Auguste ...
A Black Middle Class Long Before 1967 Challenges Narrative Of Total Abject Poverty For Bahamian Negroes
A Bahamian black middle class existed long before Majority Rule in 1967. Albeit, this social and economic class did not ...
Accomplished Brothers Henry Ethelbert Sigismund Reeves and Cleveland Harrington Reeves 1919
Henry Ethelbert Sigismund Reeves (1882-1970) and Cleveland Harrington Reeves (1891-1985) were tremendously accomplished men. Brothers, born in The Bahamas before ...
Englerston, Romanian born J. S. Engler’s Dream Subdivision 1925
Englerston, as a planned subdivision, was conceived of almost one hundred years ago, during a time when most of the ...
Monetising History (1821-2021): Two Hundred Years Since the Seminoles Settled Andros, Time To Capitalise on Chickcharney, Bosee-Amasee and Yahoos Folklore
Words like Tallahassee, Okeechobee, Coacoohee, Cohedgo and Amathla are all from America’s Seminole Indian tradition. Some are the names of ...
Nassau Prostitutes Selling Their Wares For Less Than a Dollar and One Unforgettable Case of The Clap, Nassau, 1940
Venereal diseases were rampant, in The Bahamas, in the 1800s. Most cases, especially on the Out Islands, went untreated until ...
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats – Progressive Liberalism in The Bahamas 1967
For The Bahamas, since January 1967, Progressive Liberalism it can be said, became the first organised political ideology. It remains ...
William Paterson Founder of the Bank of England was once a Wealthy Merchant In New Providence, The Bahamas
William Paterson, who went on to become the founder of the Bank of England, it was said, made his colonial ...
Uriah McPhee, The Death That Solidified Black Power Politics in The Bahamas 1968
Nestled between Augusta and Nassau Streets, in the heart of old Nassau, there rests in the solemn, underbrush challenged Western ...
Resigned PLP Education Minister Cecil Wallace-Whitfield Beaten When Ten Men Try To Stop Political Meeting – Freeport November 1970
Ten men, bent on rendering violence and mayhem, in order to stop a political meeting of rebel PLP members, were ...
American Armed Robber Buys Bahamian Passport And Becomes Dr. Micheal James Robertson of Cable Beach 1984
For $25,000, an American armoured car robber, managed to buy a Bahamian passport and a new fugitive life in Cable ...
Eric Wiberg Travelled 10,000 Nautical Miles To Chronicle Bahamian Maritime History
For The Bahamas, these incomparable, crystal blue waters have long been an intrinsic part of its economic and social history ...
Unusual Deaths From Long Time 1940 – 1960 Part One
Death in the African tradition is a complicated process. The process of Death encompasses magic and gods and chieftains and ...
Consumption, La Grippe, Syphilis, Typhoid, Fever: Major Causes of Death in The Bahamas 1917 – 1920
Reading historical death records may not be the exciting of things to do on any given day. However, during a ...
Attesting to the Pure Whiteness of George Granville Morton of Palmetto Point, Eleuthera 1907
For Bahamian whites and those hoping to pass for white, there were tough times ahead, as they emigrated from the ...
Tracing Forgotten History of one novel flu virus “Wuhan Flu” H3N2 (1978 – 1998)
As the sun rose over the Bahama Islands, on Thursday, April 16th, 2020, this small island nation, found itself locked ...
Polio Epidemic Hits Bahamas With Ban and Mandatory 14 Day Quarantine For Foreign Arrivals 1946. Polio Outbreak Causes Immunization of Entire Population 1964
In the early 20th century, few diseases were more dreaded, than the crippling infantile paralysis disease, called polio. Polio, short ...
Coronal Cold To Coronavirus To Covid-19 – 1970 to 2020
On 27 March 2020, nine cases of the Covid-19, novel coronavirus, were confirmed for The Bahamas. One recorded hospitalisation and ...
Flu Pandemic Sees Bahamas Bootleggers Making Money From Whiskey Cure for Deadly Influenza 1920
In March 2020, as the coronavirus, or Covid-19, began to negatively affect the fortunes of the Bahamas, it is interesting ...
19-Year-Old Mary Gertrude Baker, A Negro Maid With Great Courage, Got A Lawyer And Fought Back 1951
In 1951, Mary Gertrude Baker was one Bahamian woman, who was determined to stand up for herself. She knew she ...
Lucayan Beach Hotel, From Boom To Bust, From Government Purchase To Commission of Inquiry, From Gangsters To Bankruptcy
The Lucayan Beach Hotel, in Freeport, Grand Bahama, began life, in the early 1960s, as a result of breathtakingly audacious ...
Haiti’s Compensation Debt To France: Is It Really To Blame For The Present Poverty of Haiti? 1825
On 1st. February 1838, the Republic of Haiti and the Kingdom of France signed a new treaty of peace, giving ...
Illegal Haitian Immigration into The Bahamas, Britain Gives Up, Leaving It To An Under Resourced Bahamian Government 1963 – 1965
By 1963, the illegal Haitian migration problem, had all but overwhelmed, British colonial officials, in Nassau. Reliance on regulations contained ...
The CDP, NDP, ABC, CCKG, BYPA – New Bahamian Political Parties and Activist Groups 1966
Secret intelligence files, from 1966, released only after the thirty-year rule, reveal that nothing escaped the watchful eye of British ...
The Rise and Demise of Bahamianization 1967 – 1983
Bahamianization was once a fully formulated, implemented political ideology. Its twenty year popular rise, post 1967, was to address the ...
Prime Minister Pindling Drops His $4m Canadian Filed Defamation Lawsuit Against American Television Station NBC 1989
The drug years ostensibly began in the late 1970s. Drug trafficking started with marijuana smuggled out of South America headed ...
Twenty Percent of Teenagers Giving Birth at PMH Were In Fifth to Ninth Pregnancy 1979
A presumptive causal link between social and economic unrest on the one hand and its growing negro population on the ...
Bahamas Government Act To Compensate Storm Victims For Property Damage and Personal Injury 1850
A witness said they saw four negro children. They had been struck dead. Their bodies buried under the ruins, which ...
The Last Shah of Iran, Frail and Desperately Sick, Forced To Leave Nassau After Two Months June 1979
One of the penultimate photos of the last Shah of Iran, in the Bahamas, was of the deposed ruler being ...
UBP Party Leaves Bahamas Number 1 On International Blacklist February 13, 1967
By 13th February, 1967, less than a month after what would become the most historically significant, and far reaching political ...
Affluent Negroes During Slavery – Who was Free Black Attorney Henry Forbes?1822
Were there affluent, educated free blacks, during slavery in the Bahamas? Simple probabilities say there must have been. Could there ...
Free Black Women and Free Women of Colour Who Owned Slaves Bahamas Slave Register 1822
How did black women and women of colour obtain their freedom and come to possess their own slaves? How were ...
Canada Accuses UBP Education Minister Godfrey Kelly of Trying To Profit From Donation of School Desks 1967
By 1967, Canadian authorities had had just about enough of the millionaire-rich, beggar-poor UBP (United Bahamian Party) Bahamas government. They ...
Whatever Happened To The Slave Relics Found By Sir Harry Oakes As He Cleared His Thousands of Acres In Nassau 1938
If truth be told, Sir Harry Oakes wasted his life and fortune in the Bahamas. He was neither mourned, nor ...
Ebo Venus, Hard Times and Good Luck, the Slaves of Alexander Forbes of Exuma 1822
The surname Forbes, like Rolle, and Bain are some of the more prevalent surnames in the Bahamas. They, like many ...
Chole, Black Female Slave Sold Early 1822, Mulatto Baby Jessie, Born December 1822 Watlings Island, Bahamas
What did it mean to be female and black during slavery? It symbolised nothing good that's for sure. Being constantly ...
Slaveowner Robert Taylor Gifts His Minor Son John, A 10-Year-Old Female Slave Named Scilla 1825
Scilla, was a 10-year-old slave girl, in New Providence, in 1822. She had been sold off from the estate of ...
Registrar’s Tally of Slaves for the Bahama Islands 1825
James Armbrister was the Slave Registrar for the Bahama Islands. He signed off, providing the official seal, on the total ...
Black Slave Owner Richard Owens and Daughter Mary Owens, Free Woman of Colour, Sold Slaves 1825
Black slaveowners remains a quarrelsome subject. A number of free blacks and free coloureds, in the Bahamas, owned slaves. And ...
Freeman’s Hall Plantation, Cat Island and 15 Slaves For Sale in 1812; For Sale Today Minus the Slaves and Sheep
Substantial crown land grants, given to the Loyalists, an assortment of British settlers, and to a miscellaneous hodgepodge of opportunist ...
Forgotten Black Owned Bahamian Bank, Ortland H. Bodie Sr.’s Mutual United Bank of Bahamas Ltd. 1962
Ortland H. Bodie Sr. was a smart, ambitious Bahamian businessman. He had to be. As a black Bahamian opening his ...
Every Curry in the Bahamas Today Are Descendants of Five Scottish Loyalist Brothers Joseph, John, Richard, Benjamin and William Curry
The Curry surname, in the Bahamas, came from Scotland. According to a 1962 research paper entitled The American Loyalists in ...
Governor Ranfurly calling the UBP “recalcitrant, stubborn and politically obtuse” and the coloured people “extremely ignorant and easily led” 1956
Governor Ranfurly wrote that Milo Butler was "hugely fat and unattractive coloured man without a brain in his head." Ranfurly's ...
“The House of Assembly is the House of the People” PLP Party Magazine 1956
In terms of understanding modern Bahamian political history, there is no bypassing the beginnings of the Progressive Liberal Party. In ...
Secret 1970 British File On UBP Party Meeting in London, To Try To Stop Independence, Declassified in 2001
In 1970, three UBP Party members, Reginald Lobosky, Geoffrey Johnstone and Eric Watkins, arranged for a secret meeting with British ...
Haitian Slave in Nassau, said to be past 60 years old, Named Touissant 1822
What if, by some strange twist of secret history, Haitian Military Leader, General and best known figure of the Haitian ...
Secret Political File on Progressive Liberal Party 1957 Declassified (London) 1988
In 1957, when a visiting Colonial Office official from London, came to the Bahamas, he accepted a dinner invitation from ...
Declassified Under British 30 Year Rule Confidential Assessment File on top Bahamian Political Figures 1966
No one in this world, was more obsessed with what colour Sir Roland Symonette was, than white British people. From ...
Former Slave Sam Charged With Hiding Runaway Apprentice Tulip, Disobeying His Master and Working the King’s Land Without Permission, The Bluff, Eleuthera, 1835
In the Bahamas, we know next to nothing about the British colonial governors, who oversaw and administered, the public affairs ...
Could Bahamas History of Deposits In British Joint Colonial Fund Support Idea for Modern Day Sovereign Wealth Fund 1962
Could a Sovereign Wealth Fund be established today to benefit the long term interests of the Bahamian people? Some modern ...
Harbour Islanders Say No To Electricity 1943
Bahamians call electricity - current. Such as strange word in today's vernacular, don't you think? To those unfamiliar with history ...
Most Brilliant Speech Ever Made at Bahamas Bar by Negro Barrister the Hon. A. F. Adderley During Oakes Murder Trial 1943
"He who goes to law holds a wolf by the ears." In 1943, the most accomplished lawyer in the Bahamas ...
Wealthy Bahamian Negro and Father of 49 Children Claims Hospital Wrongly Removed Testicle 1970
In July 1965, wealthy Bahamian negro Ortland H. Bodie Sr. checked himself into the Osteopathic General Hospital in Florida, for ...
American Thanksgiving in the Bahamas 1935
A 1935 photo of a Bahamian woman, carrying a rather large turkey on her head, gives some indication of just ...
Haitian Revolutionary Party Manages To Assemble 3,000 Strong Force Under The Nose of the Bahamas Government 1963
In August 1963, the United Bahamian Party (UBP) government, was caught off guard. A substantial national security threat was looming ...
“Guard Our Heritage” Celebrating 250 Years of Parliamentary Democracy 1979
With its 1973 independence, a new Social Contract had been psychosocially and constitutionally enacted between the Bahamian government and the ...
Adelaide’s Poor Negro Population of 80 Raises 18 Shillings and Bahamas Government Sends Priceless Antique Cannon to Scrap Metal War Effort in England 1941
Sacrifice, is a word so gratuitously used today, that it is easy forget superlative moments in the history of mankind, ...
E. P. Taylor’s Vast New Providence Land Stock Listed on Toronto Stock Exchange 1979
From Mount Pleasant to South Ocean to Lyford Cay to Old Fort Bay, Canadian land speculator Ernest Plunket Taylor once ...
Murder of Peter Abrahams, 97-Year-Old South African Pan-Africanist in Jamaica Typified The Predictable End To So Many Black Social Movements 2017
Pan Africanism once represented the high aspirations of negro intellectualism and black self-determination philosophy. It began as a thought experiment, ...
Britain’s Plan To Settle 50,000 Assyrian Christians From Iraq To Their Former Slave Colony British Guiana 1934
Once upon a time, the globe was like a giant chessboard for Great Britain. It could move and manipulate assets ...
100 Scottish-Irish Bahamians and Thousands of Black Bahamians Exported As Labourers To America 1945
If we look to great stories of historical importance, especially those whose origins begin in the ocean crossing annals of ...
Famous Deportations Part 1 – Man Who Claimed He Loaned Pindling Money For 1967 Campaign, Deported 1969, Named In Plot To Kill Pindling 1973
Deportation is a tool, either anonymously administered through procedure or strategically targeted through vigilance. In the end, it is an ...
Bahamian MP Agrees To $14.5 Million Out Of Court Settlement For Fatal Car Crash In Florida 1985
On June 4, 1984, near Port Saint Lucie, Florida, a horrific car accident left American Paul Coombs, a husband and ...
Miami Woman Exhibits Deed To 120 Acres In Abaco Granted By King William 1925
Every war that has ever been fought, in the world, was because of it. Early man walked out of Africa ...
A Ship Wreck of 300 Slaves on Green Turtle Cay Brings Call Of Too Many Free Negroes From New Providence 1816
By 1816, continued wrecks and capture of slave ships, across the archipelago of the Bahamas, suddenly brought unexpected social and ...
French Buy Egyptian Negroes To Send Them Unknowingly To Fight War In Mexico 1863
By 1863, more than four hundred long, miserable years had passed since the first negroes had been taken, from the ...
Popular Bahamas Police Band Performance “Beat Retreat” Explained
Some of greatest military manoeuvres in history involved the retreat. The Retreat of Dunkirk during World War II, the March ...
No Cubans Allowed! Bahamian Government Decree To Deport Every Arriving Cuban National 1964
Communism and the threat of it spreading into democratic nations, in the West, was to be stopped at all costs ...
When The Seas So Cherished Came Upon This Land – An Ode To The Afterward of Hurricane Dorian 2019
For the Bahamas, the sea has afforded every beauty and bounty, to every life that has ever existed on its ...
Common Journey better known as Johnny Cake, An Early Mention In A Poem About Two Women Marrying Each Other 1799
Common Journey is perhaps the most appropriate name for the bread, which has, over the past two hundred years or ...
Bahamas Receives Haitian Flag in 1830 But By 1843 France Sends War Ships When Haiti Tries To Pay Debt They Agreed To With Haitian Money
In 1830, the Bahamas Governor, James Carmichael Smith, had been instructed by England to receive the Haitian flag and afford ...
Whatever Happened To The 200 Haitian Pickers on the Bahama Star Citrus Farm in Abaco 1993
Migration has often been depicted as a major problem for struggling developing countries, whether as receiver or sender nation. The ...
Green Turtle Cay People Hardly Bathed And Marsh Harbour Was Just A 1,500 Orange Tree Plantation 1851
In 1851, people from Green Turtle Cay hardly bathed for fear of catching cold. We might laugh at this old ...
Abaco Farm Owned By Member of Parliament Attracts 800 Haitians Every Season To Plant And Harvest Cucumbers “the grounds turn mushy with mud” 1982
The polemic over the Haitian presence, in the Bahamas, is an 80-year-old ongoing, unsettled debate. For Haiti, its economic and ...
First Idea For British West Indian Federation Rejected In 1891 Then Revived To Be Rejected Again 1897
In 1891, more than half a century before it actually came to fruition, the idea for a British West Indian ...
60 Hour Hurricane Sends British Administrator Dundas Running For His Life, Puts Nassau and Grants Town Underwater And Kills Former Evangelist and First Proclaimed Poet Laureate H. C. Christie of Bahamas 1929
Hurricane, is one of the oldest words, in the Western Hemisphere. Incredibly, it has survived, since it was first heard ...
Getty Oil Awarded Exploratory Licences To Drill In Bahamas For An Undisclosed Bonus Amount 1982
When companies, with a globally recognised name like Getty Oil, throw their hundreds of millions behind an oil exploration venture, ...
Promoting Light Industries Brings Cigarette Manufacturing To Bahamas 1953
In the 1950s, cigarette smoking, was the ultimate leisure time activity. Movie stars to millionaires could be seen lighting up ...
UBP Brand Still Strong As Electrician Cleophus Adderley Wins Over PLP Milo Butler Jr In By-Election 1967
Politics, in the Bahamas, is like a fickle sweetheart. Many have taken her to their warm bed at night, only ...
$3,000 Move That Began A Slow End To Tony Curry’s Promising Baseball Career 1961
In 1959, Bahamian Tony Curry was named the MVP of the Eastern Minor League, leading with 179 hits, 108 runs ...
Stafford Sands Hired Private Police For Bahamas Government Work And Later To Protect His Daughter From Her Husband 1967
In May 1967, during a U. S. Senate investigation hearings on electronic eavesdropping, it was disclosed that Sir Stafford Sands, ...
First Black US Presidential Candidate In Nassau’s Foxhill Prison 1979
Clennon Washington King, was the first black man to run as an independent for president of the United States, in ...
Famous But Forgotten Suicides in Bahamas: Cuban Awaiting Extradition to Only Son of Universal Studios President to Nassau Mass Murderer 1888 – 1964
How one views the act of suicide, greatly depends on one's outlook on life and one's time of life. Throughout ...
Spying For The Nazis From Cat Cay Bahamas 1940
In 1939, a German-born woman, working as a hotel maid in New York, married the wireless operator on Cat Cay, ...
Catharine Richardson, The Negro Sweetheart, Sold Into Slavery Because His Wife Wouldn’t Understand, Nassau 1809
Catharine Richardson, a free born negro woman from New York, was sold into slavery, in Nassau, in 1809. Then, but, ...
‘What Tommy Robinson Know About Business Or Running Any Pharmacy’ Black Crab Politics 1967
Politics, in the Bahamas, changed after January 1967. Attitudes changed as well. Orchestrations that the United Bahamian Party (UBP), white-minority ...
Oldest Bell In Western Hemisphere Taken From Andros Island in 1885
Is the bell, which once hung in the African Methodist Church in Haleyville, New Jersey between 1886 to 1947, the ...
CALL THE MIDWIFE 1953
In 1953, there were 257 licensed midwives in the Bahamas. In fact, there were more licensed midwives than there were ...
Alexander C. Stuart, Seven Feet Tall Bahamian Albino Negro, London 1847
In 1847, Nassau born, Alexander Charles Stuart, was walking down the streets of fashionable Mayfair, in London. Stuart, described as ...
Touissant Lagorille, Negro Money Maker Whose Genius Financed Haitian Emperor Faustin Soulouque
Touissant Lagorille, was the genius, negro moneymaker and banker for the Kingdom of Haiti, under the rule of Emperor Faustin ...
£15m Loan In 1835 To Compensate British Slaveowners Finally Paid In 2015
On February 9, 2018, HM Treasury (Her Majesty's Treasury) via its Twitter account, from London, tweeted a most extraordinary bit ...
Sir Roland Symonette “It is my considered opinion that the roach did not consume much of the rum” House of Assembly 1961
Some reckon that part of the good old days, was when Bahamians weren't scared of anything. Your old Grammy and ...
August 1st Emancipation Day Should Also Remind The Bahamas Their Historic Role In Enabling Slavery In America 1861 – 1865
As the August 1st annual celebration of Slavery Emancipation, is observed once again, present day Bahamians, should also be cognisant ...
Bahama Islands Were Once One Giant Landmass or Mountain Range Says Scientists 1893, 1934, 1953, 1956, 1965, 1970, 1985
A myriad of curiously shaped landmasses comprise the islands of the Bahamas. They represent just a brief 120-million-years of earth's ...
American Race History: Louis Till Hanged In Italy 1945, His Son Emmett Till Hanged In 1955
On July 2, 1945, Private Louis Till, a negro soldier, of the 177th Port Company was executed in Italy for ...
Precedent Charitable Trust Case Based On Money Left By Wealthy Foreigner For The Education of Whites Only In Bahamas 1953, 1970, 1983, 1986
In 1953, Stafford Sands became the trustee, of a discretionary fund established to underwrite the education of white Bahamians, exclusively ...
Trying To Reopen Harry Oakes Case Almost Costs Cyril Stevenson His Life 1959
The killer of Sir Harry Oakes, was still alive and well, and living brazenly in the open, in Nassau, in ...
Climate Study Concludes Bahamian Heat Makes Generationally Lazy People 1915
Fear drove the ideas behind the eugenics, master race, movement of the 20th century. Books, like Civilisation and Climate, written ...
Probate Notice For Samuel Minors A Free Black Man 1799
Who was Samuel Minors, a Free Black Man, who died in 1799? With so much of Bahamian history, lacking in ...
Was The Stench From Outdoor Toilets Blocking Sale of Royal Victoria Hotel For 33 Years 1866
It took 33 years to finally sell the Royal Victoria Hotel. It sold in 1898 to E. L. Flagler. Was ...
Indian Lascar Killed And Two Runaway Negroes Captured By Slave Catchers Nassau 1785
How did a Lascar, all the way from the East Indies, become a runaway slave, in Nassau? Moreover, why was ...
Cyril Stevenson Uncovers Who Got The Most Road Building Contract Money 1958
Prior to 1967, the 7Cs did not apply to the process of awarding Bahamas government contracts. Contract. Costs. Competencies. Connections ...
19th Century Propaganda: Most Poisonous Plant In The Bahamas Linked to Obeah 1888
One day, the principles and teachings of Obeahism, the once ancient practices of African-Caribbean people, will be to the world, ...
COFFEE SHOP MEETING ORGANISED BY JOHN CRUDEN LEADS TO EVENTUAL MERCHANT CLASS RULE Nassau 1785
John Cruden, an angry, disgruntled Loyalist driven out Florida in 1784, called a meeting of British Merchants, in Nassau, in ...
Loyalists Tax Exemption Extended From 7 To 15 Years: AND THEN THEY TOOK THE GOVERNMENT 1784 – 1785
If we are bound to repeat the unheeded lessons of history, then, in the future, the Bahamas will fight for ...
Bahamas Patent Registration 1889 – 1967
Of the few hundred or so patents registered in the Bahamas, between 1889 to 1967, there are only a handful ...
10.12 p.m. House of Commons, London: Bahamas Independence Bill Read Lord Balniel Begins…15 May 1973
By 21st September 1972, mere moments after the results of the general elections were called, the date of national independence ...
First UBP Convention After Political Loss, First PLP Convention After Political Win 1968
1968 was a tumultuous, rollercoaster year for politics in the Bahamas. A new political cement was hardening. Realities had sunk ...
Negro Bahamas Friendly Society, Lodges and Other Societies Finance Political Movement To Circumvent Bay Street Capitalists 1944
In 1944, the 110-year-old, Bahamas Friendly Society, under the leadership of W. E. Dorsett, began to pave a new road ...
128 Slaves of Wealthy James Moss Member of the House of Assembly Sold To Jamaica… Here Are Their Names 1822
All who sat in the House of Assembly, before 1834, were slave owners. Slaves were the only source of wealth ...
United Daughters of the Confederacy Present Book To Stafford Sands For Nassau Public Library 1962
I hope that revisionist, racist book on the glory of Confederate history, given to the Nassau Public Library in 1962, ...
We Called Ourselves The First Republic In The Western Hemisphere To Get Tourists 1947
Did the Bahamas really begin life as a Republic! It's second life that is. The first one belonged to the ...
New Minister of Health Milo Butler In Conflict of Interest Because He Was An Undertaker 1967
Conflict of interest for Bahamian government ministers only became an issue after 1967. After that is, a negro-led party took ...
Stafford Sands Spends Some Of His Corruptly Gotten Millions in Italy 1968
The 1960s was good to Sir Stafford Sands CBE, MP; that is, until 1967. In January 1967, the seat of ...
Whatever Happened To The Priceless 1652 Silver Bar Found Off Gorda Cay In 1950
Treasure found in the Bahamas represents the proceeds of slavery. There I said it! I say it because we need ...
Whatever Happened To The Hoard Of Priceless Coins Turned Over To The Bahamas Government in 1965
There has never really been a formal, nationally published accounting of all the archeological treasure, in the possession, of the ...
Winston Churchill Heard Singing Bahamian Tune ‘Mama Don’t Want No Rice’ 1942
There is probably a rather simple reason why Winston Churchill would remember a song he heard in the Bahamas in ...
Schoolmasters Beating Coloured Boys and Old White Men From America Sneaking Off To Meet Dusky Ladies in Grants Town’ 1884
Schoolmasters bending negro boys over desks to get a whacking and old white men from America, telling their wives that ...
“And After Ya Hang Me, Kiss Mah A**” Jamaican Slaves Henry and George Hanged in 1824, Captured in ‘No Surrender’ Scene in the movie Mandingo 1975
"...And after ya hang me, kiss mah ass," are the final words of the slave Cicero before he his hanged ...
Selling Land They Never Paid For: Plantations and Slaves For Sale 1822
Land, is a contentious topic, in the Bahamas. And for good reason. A famous person once wrote, "Unhappy the land ...
Man Hush Ya Mouth! The Elusive Rum Runner Capt. Symonette Was No Negro 1922
With that fiery Bahamian island sun, turning the very tar on the streets to boiling molasses, it's just too hot ...
Dr. Archie Donaldson, First Ever Black Multimillionaire Thoroughbred Horse Owner 1978
The Bahamas can claim a famous 'Archie' of its very own in world history. By 1978, Bahamian physician, Dr. Archie ...
Yellow Negro From Bahamas Exhibited at Zoological Society In Ireland 1843
The truth about the negro, as an experimentally exhibited, poked and prodded living object, in history, has been largely forgotten ...
Visitations of Violence: Slavery and Negro Children
A ten month old beaten to death on a slave ship. A fifteen year old girl with gonorrhoea, hung naked, ...
Conchy Joe Problems! When Bay Street Oligarchs and Foreign Investors Fight 1942
When the rich fight, they don't play by the same rules as the poor. In the Bahamas, poor negroes like ...
Governor Refused Assistance of George Washington Carver Because There Would Be No Place For Him To Stay 1942
There are only two possible Bahamas Governors who could have refused the help of Dr. George Washington Carver because he ...
Did George Washington Contract Smallpox In Nassau and Did His Brother Really Die in the Bahamas in 1751
In 1899, the American media had been carrying a story on the life of George Washington, which mentioned that he ...
Edgar Mayhew Bacon, Third Generation Bahamian and Prolific American Writer 1889
In 1889, Bahamian born Edgar Mayhew Bacon, then an acclaimed American author with many published books to his credit, returned ...
British Transport 109 Irish Convicts To Settle Abaco 1785
As early as 1752, in an effort to populate the many near uninhabited islands of the Bahamas, the British began ...
Divorced Bahamian Mothers Finally Get Equal Custody Rights To Their Children 1961
Prior to 1961, in the Bahamas, one of the reasons why many unhappily married women stayed in broken marriages was ...
Pig Feet Souse Is No More Bahamian Than Duff Is
The Bahamian staple food dish of pig feet 'souse' is not of native island origin. Souse is, in fact, an ...
Las Vegas Prostitutes For Bahamian Officials in 1969 Revealed In Gambling Licence Testimony in 1979
How did paying for prostitutes, for Bahamian government officials, who ran out of money, on a trip to Las Vegas, ...
Cannibalism to Incest: Stories in Bahamian Negro Folklore 1895
Cultures and traditions, outside of Europe, between the 15th to 19th centuries, were roundly dismissed as primitive. Whatever intellectual property ...
Was Dr. Meyer Rassin’s Permit Application Denied Because He Was Jewish 1946
During World War II, if there had been no RAF Wing Commander Meyer Rassin, stationed in Nassau, to be in ...
Skyline Heights, No Portion Shall Be Sold To Anyone Who Is Not of the Pure Blood White Race 1957
A word of advice. When you see the old generation of Bahamians, sitting on the front porch, talking about the ...
His Highness Prince Bishnu Shumshere of Nepal Found Dead in Cable Beach, Nassau 1946
Prince Bishnu Shumshere, the fantastically wealthy son of the Maharajah of Nepal, was found dead, in bed, in his home, ...
Praying So Hard To Stop Casino Gambling, We Never Saw The Storm Of Drugs Coming 1977
From the days of slavery, to emancipation, to the push for civil rights, the journey for negro people, since 1492, ...
Police Even Took His Balls! “Father Allen” Caught Selling Numbers From His Chicken Shack 1965
Four very important things one needs to understand about the numbers racket and the predominantly negro area of East Street, ...
Whatever Happened to FIRST BAHAMAS INVESTMENT TRUST OFFERING SHARES TO BAHAMIANS 1965
In the 1960s, for the average Bahamian, access to the wealth creating stock market of the United States wasn't even ...
Bahamas Are Not In The Caribbean and That’s Final 1960
By 1960, after a few hundred years of historical associations, the link, putting the Bahamas somewhere in the Caribbean Sea, ...
Sliced Beef Tenderloin À la Pindling February 10th 1967
À la, in the gourmet culinary world, as well as in the popular vernacular, was shortened when borrowed from the ...
Walter Wilfred Parker, An Early 20th Century “Sunshine Boy” 1922
The ethos of the original Sunshine Boys, who founded, the Sunshine Group Ltd., in the Bahamas, in the mid 1970s, ...
Fervour and Simplicity – The PLP CAMPAIGN MANIFESTO (in pictures) 1962
A published declaration of intentions, motives, or views of the issuer. That's really all a manifesto is. But throughout history, ...
First Negro Motorcycle Policemen In The World Nassau 1927
The history of negro policemen, in The Bahamas, goes all the way back to the early 1800s. Nassau Police Force ...
Merchants and Government Conspire To Create Food Import Dependency 1915
At some point, in the late 1800s, the penny, the economic penny that is, dropped for the merchant class, and ...
Queen’s Honours Bestowed On Bahamas Police Force 1966
The year was 1966. Thursday, April 21st. Elizabeth II, Queen of England, was celebrating her 40th birthday. Her Majesty was ...
300,000 Acres of Crown Land in Grand Bahama Leased for 99 years in 1925
At the beginning of the 20th century, Grand Bahama presented a significant problem, in terms of economic, and social development ...
Leslie Miller Breaking Track and Field Records for 440 yard dash 1966
Sport has long been a pathway to scholarships for secondary and tertiary education abroad, for many naturally gifted Bahamian athletes ...
A Nassau Family Photo Of Nine Little Ni**ers 1897
Within the pages of a 1897, pictorial coffee table book entitled, The Queen's Empire, there sits a photo, of a ...
2,000 Illegal Bahamian Immigrants Hunted By U.S. Federal Agents 1935
Shockwaves from the catastrophe created by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, reverberated like an economic tsunami, through the Bahamas ...
Bahama Negroes Contracted To Work on Panama Canal Sent To Monkey Hill Station 1905
When Bahama negroes complained about living conditions, just days after arriving as labourers on the Panama Canal, they were called ...
Bahamas Democratic Party (BDP) Decimates The Free National Movement (FNM) Then Disappears Like Dust 1977
By 1977, there were any number of appropriate aphorisms that could have been used to describe the curious debacles, which ...
Afro-Bahamian Club Calls For African and Black Man’s History To Be Taught In Schools 1966
The black man's history began long before slavery. Popular African history, however, for as long as many can remember, centred ...
Miss Germany Wins The Miss Bahamas International Beauty Contest For The Second Time 1966
Sir Stafford Sands, had an immense economic vision for the Bahamas. It is why he is credited with being the ...
Commonwealth Meant Family 1968
How to create a "Family," in every sense of the word, was one of the greatest challenges the Bahamas government ...
When Bahamian Women Finally Got The Vote They Didn’t Vote For A Woman 1962
Critically speaking, the beginning of the struggle for women's suffrage, in the Bahamas, had nothing to do with women or ...
Randol Fawkes First Person In Parliament To Shout Independence August 1966
Oddly enough, the first call for Bahamian independence came long before Prime Minister Lynden Pindling would make it a primary ...
Tribune Responds To Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson’s Observation on Majority Rule February 1967
The victory of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in January 1967, which ushered in the first Majority Rule government in ...
‘The Bahamian Woman Has Always Been A Highly Sexed Individual… And I Say Thank God For That’ 1975
At some point, after 1967, the all too accepted "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" way of life in the Bahamas, ...
The Men Who Built Rock Sound, Eleuthera In A Pre-Independent Bahamas 1940 (part one)
Rock Sound, Eleuthera was once known as Wreck Sound. It was called Wreck Sound during the ferocious pirate years when ...
“Wasn’t Me. One White Man Did It” Said Negro Church Deacon Convicted Of Extortion Of The Widow of Sir Harry Oakes 1950
In the Bahamas, prior to 1950, the word extortion was probably used as much as the word Jupiter. Few knew ...
What do Jehovah’s Witnesses, Rock Concerts and Ziggy Marley’s Band All Have in Common in the Bahamas?
As it relates to The Bahamas, what do Jehovah's Witnesses, Rock Concerts and Ziggy Marley's Band all have in common? ...
800 Slaves Sacrificed in Tribute on the Death of GEZO the Great Slave King of Dahomey 1858
For the Bahamas, there are many reasons, hundreds, probably a few thousand reasons why it's negro descendants of liberated African ...
Slavery Across The British West Indies (part 3) Wife Jealous of the Bed Wench Jamaica 1786
It was in 1655, under the rule of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, that the British took Jamaica from the ...
Cascarilla of the Bahamas Was Once the Marijuana of the Early 1900s
With all the brouhaha surrounding Jamaica and its new medical marijuana export industry, it is easy to forget that the ...
Dundas Civic Center – Training Negroes For A New Style Plantation 1931
Many contentious arguments have been made over the years, that the Bahamas seemingly traded one plantation type existence for another, ...
Battle Lines Drawn Over Control of Freeport 1969
In 1969, regarding the battle over Freeport, a London paper wrote, "Black power is an element, certainly, in the Bahamas ...
Cotton Tree Law – Blessed Be The Law of the Elders
Apparently, the Great Silk Cotton Tree, that once stood on Bay Street, came from South Carolina courtesy of a British ...
Lynden Pindling and Adam Clayton Powell and the One Share Which Almost Derailed The Quiet Revolution 1967
In January 1967, just as negro Bahamians were celebrating a pinnacle point, in their quiet revolution for political and economic ...
Spree Killer Murders 6 People, Wounds 6, Then Kills Himself Nassau 1964
On Wednesday, May 20th., 1964, around 7:00 p.m. or so in the evening, somewhere in Over-the-Hill, Nassau, Rueben Rolle, a ...
Slavery Across the British West Indies (part 2) Two Young Boys Get One Hundred Lashes Each Over A Pair of Stockings – Nevis 1817
During slavery, there was one singular, openly declared, and lawfully protected rule in the West Indies. It was that the ...
Slavery Across the British West Indies (part 1) – Master Who Killed His Slave Because He Allowed A Mango To Fall From His Tree – Tortola 1811
A most important question has been posed to Bahamianology.com - "What was slavery like in other British colonies and around ...
World’s First Under The Sea Post Office Nassau Bahamas 1939
The Photosphere was so famous that the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, came to the Bahamas, to see ...
Off The Streets If Your Shorts Are Too Short 1942
You wouldn't think it looking around Nassau today, but there was once a very strict dress code in place, in ...
Intimidation and Terrorism By The New Loyalists On New Providence 1784
In 1784, the Loyalists began a campaign of intimidation, bordering on terrorism, in Nassau. What else would you call a ...
Husband Finds Wife In Bed With Another Man Then Slices Lover’s Ears Off on Grand Bahama 1824
John D. Smith of Grand Bahama was one angry white man in 1824. Smith had only one thing on his ...
Two Bahamian Negroes Killed By Miami Police 1927/1928
In the southern States of America, of the early 1900s, the Bahamian negro encountered a form of vicious racism and ...
Oil Drilling Rights Given To Company Headed By Former FBI Agent and Person Active in the Formation of the State of Israel 1958
In 1958, as the situation in Cuba was becoming increasingly unstable, the Bahamas government gave land drilling rights, to a ...
The Spanish Take Andros Island October 1741
In the year 1741, the Spanish were making a right nuisance of themselves in the Bahamas. No doubt they were ...
Planters of Spencer’s Bite, Abaco Grateful for Return of Runaway Slaves 1788
Truth was, the Bahamas, may not have survived as a colony, if it had not been for the incursion of ...
Did Slavery Sympathisers In Nassau Hide Lincoln’s Assassin John Wilkes Booth 1898
There are some secrets in history, so heinous that if true, are better left sewn up in the lips of ...
Lynching – An Unexpected Impediment to the US Takeover of the British West Indies 1922
Of all the factors to become an impediment to the US acquisition of some, if not all, of the British ...
Kirkland Wiley Todd Questionably Founder of Bahamas Red Cross Dies 1982
According to the obituary of Kirkland Wiley Todd of Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, and of the estate of "The Kopje" (the ...
Independence cried the Merchant Class But It Was Only Whiskey Talking 1921
About half a century before 1973, an inebriated call for independence rang out, from the merchant class in the Bahamas ...
14 Whites Injured by 12 Negroes Who Cause Terror Freeport 1968
Freeport, Grand Bahama was envisioned as the ultimate island utopia, by its creator, Wallace Groves. Groves wanted to create a ...
An Attempt To Attract Negro Tourists To A Segregated Bahamas 1955
By 1955, the Bahamas began to make a concerted effort of sorts to attract American negroes, as tourists, to Nassau ...
Briton Eneas, a Slave Boy Kidnapped from Nigeria and Great Grand Father of Dr. Cleveland Eneas 1977
In 1976, the late Dr. Cleveland Eneas published his story entitled "Bain Town" which detailed, among other things, his family's ...
Blacks Celebrate Freedom Whites Celebrate Enlightenment – Emancipation Day 1937
Somewhere along the historical line, Emancipation Day, in the Bahamas, became considered a negro holiday. Oddly enough, this was not ...
Smallest Woman in the World Isabella Pinder of Spanish Wells 1895
Isabella Pinder, 35 years old, was only thirty-six inches tall. The world would have never even known she existed, if ...
Poor white t… and the N-word. When Spanish Wells and Harbour Island inhabitants hated each other 1894
By 1894, the acrimony which existed between the two settlements of Harbour Island and Spanish Wells was most definitely between ...
The Murder Clock Starts Ticking 12:01 am July 10, 1973
Murder and other forms of violent crime, in the Bahamas, had historically been seen as a malignant, but limited social ...
Brits Give £50,000 to Bahamas to Grow a Weed 1943
Sansevieria, or devil's tongue, is an ugly plant. It is green for sure, but that's about it. Spiders, and other ...
Largest Drug Seizure In History, Deep Water Cay 1975
In August 1975, when U.S. Customs and narcotics enforcement agencies confirmed the weight of the 1,049 bales of marijuana found ...
“Tourists are like any other commodity. You have to buy them” Stafford Sands 1961
From Stafford Sands himself, we learn how the Bahamas became fixed on the economic trajectory it is traveling today. According ...
Obscure Negro Grocer Runs For Assembly Against Millionaire Harry Oakes 1938
In 1938, Milo Butler, was an obscure negro grocer. Butler, described by all who knew him as a seriously religious ...
Howard Hughes Leases Cay Sal From Company Owned by Roland T. Symonette 1957
In 1956, the Cay Sal islets, then part of Bahamian crown lands, covered about 200 useable acres. The group of ...
A Bitterly Divided Bahamas Limps Towards Independence 1971
Nothing was more divisive, in the modern era of the Bahamas, than the question of independence. It created a climate ...
Negro Life and Burdens of Emancipation 1888
By the year 1888, almost a whole generation had come and gone since emancipation, and the shameful apprenticeship system, which ...
Policeman Who Pretended To Still Be In High School To Play Basketball 1975
Sports, in all its forms, has long been notoriously riddled with accusations of cheating. Amateur high school sports is no ...
News of Negro Freedom Arrives at Turks Island 1838
Many forget that the Turks and Caicos Islands were once part of the Bahama chain. When the Bahamas gained independence ...
Anti-Explosives Bill Passed After Terrorist Bombing Nassau 1958
The 1958 bombing of the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau, and the hurriedly passed government anti-terrorism bill, tells us one ...
White American Marries Bahama Negro Then Are Run Out of American Town 1960
In 1960, when Alice Moss, 40, a native of Dover, Ohio, residing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, married Kenneth H. Moss ...
Bahamas Gets British Convicts as Labourers and Settlers 1856
In 1856, despite there being thousands upon thousands of unskilled negro labourers languishing outside huts, and lazing aimlessly in the ...
Key West Population Half Bahama Negroes and One Quarter “Conchs” 1888
Bahamians were apparently leaving the islands in droves in the years after the American Civil War. They were headed to ...
When “Numbers” Was The Most Dangerous Game For Negroes 1961
With the legalisation of the once underground gambling racket in the Bahamas, called 'Numbers,' it is easy to forget just ...
When the Top Cops in the Bahamas Were British 1960
A Government of the Bahamas advertisement, in The Guardian (London) on 28th June 1960, for two Assistant/Deputy Superintendents of the ...
600 Liquor Licences for 60,000 Nassau Population 1961
On September 20, 1961, Chairman of the Licensing Authority, Magistrate Maxwell J. Thompson, denied new applications for liquor licenses on ...
Bahamian Invention Patented To Grow Artificial Sponges 1927
Back in the days when the Bahamian hotel season last only for the few winter months of the year (December ...
Deputy Speaker Frank Christie Resigns Over 12 Counts of Election Bribery and Corruption 1956
Since the Loyalist years in the late 1700s, which changed the balance of power in the Bahamas, the direct descendants ...
Bulla and Boo: Man Who Had No Age and Boy Maybe 18 Hanged Nassau 1942
On Tuesday May 12, 1942, the Bahamas executed two men. They were hanged at His Majesty's Prison, the Nassau Prison ...
Real Estate Men Were Kings and Everyone Else Selfish and Narrow 1940
There was a time, when real estate men, in the Bahamas, were veritable kings. They were the fat cats who ...
Daughter Living With Body of Dead Mother, Nassau 1866
The line between being eccentric and insane can be both razor thin, or as wide as the seas. A thin ...
Burma Road Riot: Secret Race War in Whites Only Sears Addition 1942
Something happened, in Nassau, on the Monday evening of June 1, 1942 moving into the early morning of June 2, ...
Burma Road Riot: R. T. Symonette among Curfew Breakers 1942
British troops were deployed, across areas of Bay Street, from the very first evening of the riot, The riot has ...
Burma Road Riot: 5 Negroes Shot Dead and 30 White Men Injured 1942
The reality of the Burma Road Riot has been largely buried under folklore and legend. This is really how all ...
Burma Road Riot: Duke becomes known as ‘Sweet Papa HRH’ 1942
To many alive today, in the Bahamas, the first political leader called "Papa" by the Bahamian people was former Prime ...
Burma Road Riot: Conspiracy of the Fifth Columnist 1942
Was there a "Fifth Columnist" secretly in play, in the Bahamas, in 1942? Was a "Fifth Columnist," spy or agitator, ...
Burma Road Riot: Alfred “Sweet Potato” Stubbs one of the stupidest men in Bahamian history 1942
On June 1, 1942, a riot on the streets of Nassau was never supposed to happen. A world war was ...
Burma Road Riot: Where Did the Name Come From? 1942
The Burma Road Riot carved out an indelible place in Bahamian history. The same way rushing water can carve a ...
An Early Reference to Goombay from Haiti 1899
Many Bahamians have proffered a long held idea that Goombay was uniquely homegrown. From the celebration festival, to the very ...
Papers Relative to the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies – Bahama Apprentices Buy Freedom
For the most part, slaves in the British colonies, after emancipation, were not made completely free. Only slaves below the ...
Only White Woman on Eleuthera dubbed Queen of the Island 1930
Everyone knows that the press can make or break a reputation. The press can give status, and they can take ...
Life Sentence for Rape of White Woman plus Three Years for Robbery 1950
On Thursday July 20, 1950 the Bahamas judicial system achieved a first for the colony. On that day, it was ...
May 24th Empire Day! When We Celebrated Being British
May 24th was once a very important day in the Bahamas. It was Empire Day! Jolly Good and Hurrah!! The ...
Her Majesty Queen Ophelia, Queen of the South Crowned in Nassau 1884
Royal families have existed, all around the world, for as long as man had begun to live in collective communities ...
Governor of Bahamas Lord Dunmore Takes Hog Island for Himself 1791
Beginning with Woodes Rogers, one thing can be said of most, if not all, of the early colonial governors. They ...
Bahamas Gives Unequivocal “No” to Federation 1947
The Bahamas was always wary, of forming certain types of collectivist alliances, with its Caribbean neighbours. There were many reasons ...
Blood Money for Bahamian Negro Killed by Cuban Cannon 1908
In the heyday of what was an incredibly profitable international trade in turtle shells, the Bahamas, was once king. Turtles ...
Mango, Breadfruit, Ball Apple (Watermelon) and other trees Introduced to Bahamas 1789
Well, that settles that. That, of course, being the long standing debate over what, and what was not indigenous to ...
An Early push for “Bahamianization” 1894
When the first seeds of "Bahamianization" were liberally sewn in the early 1970s, it was given the same reception as ...
When even the Dog Inspector was an Expat 1954
Arguably, there is one area of island life which has long been the unfettered domain of the white, and expatriate ...
No home! No hair! No teeth! Dogs in Nassau 1895
Travel writing was an emerging field of journalism in the mid 1800s. Winter tourism was also just emerging for the ...
Knaur Flees Colony then Stafford Sands hires him in New York 1959
What Peter Knaur, the short-lived UBP propagandist, did not realise about Bahamians, was that they had a long history, of ...
Peter Knaur and that infamous UBP Master Plan 1959
In September 1958, journalist and freelance writer, Peter Knaur, and his new employers, ensured that newspapers across America carried the ...
Magistrate to prostitute ‘You can’t bribe two constables with 4 shillings’ 1942
It is a strange, but nevertheless true socio-anthropological fact that you can learn a lot about a place, and its ...
Rescued Yoruba and Egbar Slaves Arrive in Nassau May 4th., 1838
"A ni ominira!" is Yoruba for "We are free!" On 4th May, 1838, one thousand and forty three (1,043) Yoruba ...
Favourite Names in the Bahamas 1888
"What's in a name" Shakespeare asked. And, the American comedian W. C. Fields once said, "It ain't what they call ...
Haunted Goal in Inagua 1889
The Bahamas Negro, and his assumed wily ways became endless fodder for journalists, and writers in the 19th century. A ...
Lewis, a Negro Hairdresser Owes His Master Money 1817
Slaves, with the permission of their masters, could work for themselves or be employed by others, only on the strict ...
All African Labourers Report to African Board 1837
There were largely five factions of negroes in the Bahamas on 31st., July, 1834. There were slaves, there were free ...
America to Britain ‘Give us the Bahamas to Settle War Debt’ 1938
In December 2014, just over one hundred years since World War I began, and ninety-six years since it had ended, ...
£500,000 Government Farm Project Abandoned on Andros 1953
Self-sustaining food and livestock production has always been a difficult objective for the Bahamas. Throughout its modern history, one agricultural ...
Bishop of Nassau Drowns on the way to his Sermon 1904
Anything can happen to anybody, as the saying goes. Good, bad and indifferent, life and death are unpredictable that's for ...
First Controversial Appointment of a Wife to Public Office 1903
In 2018, when it was announced that the wife of Prime Minister Hubert Minnis would have her own office, to ...
Iceberg seen in Bahamas 1818
Something very strange happened in 1818. The weather apparently to forget that it was supposed to be spring and summer ...
One hundred Stubbs Slaves Escape to Haiti and Seventy Exuma Slaves illegally transported to Cuba 1822
For the 170 Bahama slaves who left the colony sometime in early 1822, (100 to Haiti and 70 to Cuba), ...
Armed White Men and Trusted Slaves Protect Salt Trade Exuma 1742
Few people remember that in the 18th and early century, Exuma was once a major salt producer, for the Bahama ...
“In the disgrace of humanity” whipping of the Rolle female slaves from Exuma 1830
If a slave ran away from his master, in the Bahama Islands, as quite a number of them did, there ...
“But You Must Not Forget That At Present You Are Slaves” Nassau 1833
By rights, the 'You Are Still Slaves' Proclamation of 1833, should have been written, and read by Governor James Carmichael ...
Bahamas Colonial Secretary Charged with Indecent Assault on Jamaican Maid 1962
Colonial Secretaries were appointed under recommendation by the British Parliament, with the formal requirements of the assent of the Crown ...
Loyalists Seize Political Power in Nassau 1784
British Loyalists, after the American War of Independence, largely, had two choices. Britain offered them refuge in Canada or they ...
Squalor, Huts, Rickets and Worms – Grant’s Town 1941
If one believes in such things as blessings, then consider that for The Bahamas, the appointment of the abdicated King, ...
Dreams of Vineyards for Bahama Islands 1735
There were several half-hearted, well meaning attempts to colonise the Bahamas after the genocide of the native Lucayans. Pirates and ...
Speaker of the House of Assembly Fined for Selling Overpriced Flour 1947
One of the biggest names in politics and business in the modern Bahamas, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Asa ...
English Lawyer Ordered Deported Tries to Sue Bahamas 1947
In 1946, Walter Sidney Chaney, an English Barrister, had just landed his dream job. He was on his way to ...
Bahamas Governor John Gregory born in Canterbury, England 1795
The historical significance of Canterbury to British history, is perhaps equal to the historical significance of an Arch, named after ...
“Totally subversive to the rights of property” Bahamas Government on Abolition 1833
Much of the legal debate surrounding ending slavery in the British West Indies didn't turn on the question of morality, ...
Bahamas Population 27,519 souls March 1851
The British newspapers didn't mince words. They noted, there was nothing of any real interest going on in the Bahamas, ...
Spaniards Held Prisoners on Mayaguana 1905
On February 17, 1905, the inhabitants of Abraham Bay, on the southern coast of Mayaguana, couldn't believe their good fortune ...
The Slavery Compensation Records 1838
The Slavery Compensation Records for the Bahamas make for interesting and sobering reading. There were 1,109 uncontested claims and 24 ...
U.S. Federal Tax Lien Filed Against Roland T. Symonette 1935
It was American Statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who in 1789, said "but in this world nothing can be said ...
Pan American Inaugurates New Plane Service To Nassau 1941
On Monday June 2, 1941, Sir Harry Oakes, Harold G. Christie and Roland Symonette stood in front of the new ...
Erasing History – Where Have All the Freetowns gone? 1893
So far, we know the Bahamas had three. Could there have been more? There probably was. At some point in ...
Patrick Henry Burns first Superintendent of Telegraph Dies 1930
P. H. Burns was, in his time, one of the most important men in the Bahamas. Patrick Henry Burns, an ...
Prophetic Words 1942
Every so often, a few articles, editorials and commentaries, appearing in Bahamian newspapers, would carry cryptic words and foreboding messages ...
Supposedly “No Jim Crow” on new Nassau Buses 1942
Jim Crow laws were a construct of the former confederate states. They were laws that enforced racial segregation in the ...
Obituary of Mr. Raphael Manitz, a Chinese Nurse, Nassau 1904
In 1904, a man named Raphael Manitz, died in the New Providence Asylum. His death notice appeared in the 15th., ...
BAHAMAS BLACKLISTED by Abraham Lincoln’s Government 1862
In February 1861, among the 34 U. S. states, seven Southern slave states decided to breakaway from the Union to ...
When Tiny Tim came to Freeport on Honeymoon his Bride Wasn’t Old Enough to Drink 1969
Throughout history, for better or for worse, there have been many famous people, who possessed of little talent, somehow managed ...
BAHAMAS BLACKLISTED 1926
There is much to be said, for the activities of a country, when even foreign criminals collectively decide to blacklist ...
Nassau Boy Beaten For Not Picking Enough Cotton 1894
Whipping, beating and the wholesale corporal punishment of children did not begin, in modern human culture, with negro slavery. All ...
Apprenticeship Was Slavery By Another Name 1836
There were tremendous difficulties with ending the legal institution of slavery, and most centred around the vast profits that were ...
Grand Bahama Bank and Trust, the Bank Waiting For Jungle to be Cleared 1960
The Bahamas' reputation as an offshore tax haven was well earned from more than half century ago. Long before many ...
Bahama Islands Raised To Rank of Diocese 1960
The Bahamas was designated an Apostolic Vicariate of the Catholic Church in 1941. The elevation from an Apostolic Vicariate, to ...
Pindling’s Famous ‘Bend or Break’ Speech at Opening of Freeport Oil Refinery 1969
With all the controversy now swirling around OBAN, the second major oil refinery scheduled for Freeport, Grand Bahama in 2018, ...
Policeman and Ex-Policeman Arrested for Kidnapping Four Year Old 1973
Two things must be said from the outset. First, policemen aren't supposed to be the perpetrators of the crimes they ...
When the Americans Body Searched Finance Minister Carlton Francis He Barred All Americans from the Bahamas 1972
On Friday 21 January, 1972, then Finance Minister, The Honourable Carlton Francis, was subjected to a humiliating and degrading experience ...
Bahamas Serial Killers (part 2): The “Angels of Lucifer” Killer 1974
One of the Bahamas' scariest serial killers, wasn't even Bahamian at all. He was only in the Bahamas on "bumming ...
Bahamian Serial Killers – When Evil Walks Among Us (part one) 2003
In 2003, evil was visited on the shores of Grand Bahama. It tore at the very core of island's close ...
On Brink of Starvation 1898, 1926, 1974
The dependency of the Bahamas on American food imports didn't just begin in the 20th century, as some may think ...
Governor Sir Bede Clifford names Polo Field After Himself 1936
Iconic Clifford Park, the grassy knoll and historical venue where Bahamian national independence was first celebrated in 1973, was named ...
Guano once an Important Natural Resource in the Bahamas 1874
Arguably, some have proffered that the islands of the Bahamas, have not been favoured with an abundance of natural resources ...
Penultimate British Governor and Commander in Chief the Bahamas, 8th Baron Thurlow 1968
On August 3, 1968, the British press announced the appointment of a new Governor and Commander in Chief for the ...
After a Difficult Year, Bahamas branded a ‘disgrace’ Medically to British Empire 1926
The Bahamas has long been accustomed to the hit and run disparaging comments of foreigners. Harsh words from those of ...
The Tragic Death of Walter Ferdinand Bethell M.L.A., 1908
Walter Ferdinand Bethell was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Bahamas. Not very much is known about him ...
Was Maud Culmer the first Bahamian Female World Explorer? 1922
White women have been largely overlooked, in the history of the Bahamas. In the early era of Bahamian time, white ...
Annie, the Little Girl Sent to Athol Island to Die 1889
In 1889, when it came to a choice between a sick little girl, and the welfare of the entire island ...
“You are my n****r, if you move I’ll stab you.” Then he did. 1884
On Saturday, 25th October, 1884, shortly after 9:00 pm, on East Bay Street, John Gray Darville, the younger, wilfully murdered ...
House Speaker Asa H. Pritchard rules unsolved murder question as “out of order” 1959
By 1959, the unsolved murder count, for the Bahamas, had been steadily climbing. It was a fact, which minority members ...
Eight Months For Putting Infant’s Hand in Fire 1942
A shocking case of child cruelty was heard in the Bahamas Supreme Court on Monday January 26, 1942. Diana Johnson ...
The Oakes Murder: Were Two More People Killed To Hide A Dark Secret of Homosexuality? 1943
Toss away every notion, every preconception, you may have about the Bahamas, in the 1940s. Put every idea, as far ...
Member of the House of Assembly Indicted in US for drug trafficking 1944
According to a New York Federal Grand Jury indictment, as early as 1940, a Bahamian Member of Parliament, was involved ...
Lord Rolle Complaining About Having to Feed Slaves in Exuma 1834
Lord John Rolle was one angry beast of a man in 1834. Not only was forced to free his slaves, ...
Twenty-seven Houses Plundered and Burned Harbour Island 1814
At least Captain Alexander Thompson gave a reason. It was a lie though. Some privateers just burned and plundered, then ...
Cannibalism on Ginger Key 1813
A ship out of Baltimore, sailing from Charleston, found itself wrecked, on a deserted key in the Bahamas. Without food ...
Four Little Boys Lost At Sea Forever Acklins 1971
The thing is, by the time the alarm was raised, and by the time the sound of the alarm reached ...
Taxing negro and mulatto slaves to pay for free white apprentices Nassau 1790
The late 1700s, saw the beginnings of a significant historical population expansion in the islands. By 1790, with the influx ...
Buy a piece of Freeport for just $149.95 in 1969
A deal struck in 1966, for the Mary Carter Paint Company to buy Paradise Island from Huntington Hartford, began a ...
Ten Crash Victims Recovered, Clifton Pier, Nassau 1954
One of the worst American Naval disasters, to occur in the Caribbean, happened in Nassau, just 200 yards off Clifton ...
Who Changed Woodes Rogers’s motto? 1940
We have a peculiar historical mystery here. Who changed Woodes Rogers's historic words, originally inscribed on the great seal of ...
“A colony was as near being dead as a living body may be” but then came liquor 1920
Historically speaking, there is one inescapable fact, the Bahamas, has profited immensely from various forms of smuggling. From pirates in ...
Murder, Robbery, Slapping and Cussing – Crime 1963
Bahamians traditionally don't like the rain. They are spoiled by all the year round sunshine that often turns the sea ...
Robert Lee Vesco was the Real Cancer That Took Down Pindling 1973
Sir Lynden Pindling, the first Prime Minister of the Bahamas, died on August 26, 2000, after a long battle with ...
An enduring legacy by a man who once lived in a cave in Abaco 1974
A statue depicting an Afro-Bahamian mother and child, was unveiled on 11th August 1974, in Rawson Square. A figure of ...
13,500 Illegal Haitian Immigrants Register to Go Back Home 1974
On Thursday 22nd. April, 1971, Haitians across The Bahamas were taking to the streets to celebrate the death of Haitian ...
Blurred Lines between Business and Politics 1964
On Monday 27th April 1964, when the announcement was made in England and America that the Bahamas Premier, The Prime ...
First White Men Hung in the Bahamas in 200 years 1961
Around 7:00 am, on Tuesday, May 9th., 1961, as the sun was climbing higher and higher in the clear blue ...
Kelly Island renamed Arawak Cay, Nassau 1969
Oddly enough, it was a deal signed with mobsters, gangsters, hidden figures and front men, for Paradise Island that enabled ...
‘Man why you so fool’ A Comedy of Errors 1918
'Man why you so fool' is a popular Bahamianese saying, in response to acts of stupendous stupidity. In 1918, a ...
“Not prepared to be a paid politician” Sands quits UBP and Bahamas forever 1967
Stafford Sands entered Bahamian politics in 1937. This was in an era before Members of the Assembly, were paid, and ...
Leprosy in the Bahamas 1905
In 1905, leprosy was a rampant, incurable disease everywhere it struck, including in the Bahamas. Leprosy, also known as Hansen's ...
Armbrister Shoes, Bay Street, Nassau 1908
In 1908, shops on Bay Street, had the monopoly on retail fashion. That's where you went to buy everything from ...
“And I tell you watch them children” 1916 and 1947
"And I tell yinna watch dem chirren." You can almost hear it now, the frantic, desperate cries of a Bahamian ...
Bahamian claims he was Al Capone’s lieutenant on Grand Bahama 1962
"Shotgun John" Smith claimed he was Scarface Capone's lieutenant, on Grand Bahama, during the rum running years. And he had ...
Al ‘Scarface’ Capone buys Bahamas island but forbidden to live there 1929
Only those who had been living under a rock, in the 1920s, didn't know who 'Scarface' Al Capone was. Al ...
Oh Lawd! Sweet Richard Gone 1964
When someone has 'gone', in Bahamianese language, that means they have died. And when someone dies, that is time for ...
Bahamas considers pegging currency with Canada 1947
Between 1900 to 1950, while the Bahamas had its own economic problems, it almost paled in comparison to what was ...
The first Bahamas Flying Treasure Hunt 1963
By 1962, more than 9,000 private planes had landed, in various ports, within the Bahamas. This was a new record ...
Heart attack or Poisoned? Governor dies in the living room of Government House 1950
Without a doubt, the sudden death of Governor George Ritchie Sanford, sent shockwaves across the islands. He was a middle-aged ...
A Solution to the Unemployed Son-in-Law, Make daughter Governor of Bahamas 1960
In 1960, the Royal Family had a serious public relations problem. Their newly married Princess Margaret, then 30 had a ...
“Nazi” group forms in Nassau 1961
The Bahamas has had its share of foreigners over the centuries, that's for sure. People from all over the world ...
“He is a grumbler and a gossip” Bahamian Creoles 1861
Colonial Governors were required to submit extensive reports on the economic and social progress of their respective colonies. They were ...
P. H. Burns marries Mary Knowles, a rich planter’s daughter Nassau 1893
Bahamas Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) must correct one small detail on its company's history page. They've made a mistake on the ...
Public Bank Fails Government borrows to repay depositors 1885
Whether 2017 or 1885, no matter what year, in whatever century, the lending policies of the government bank was always ...
Tradition of the Curfew Nassau 1888
The curfew bell was a long held English tradition. During the Medieval Period, the curfew bell was rung as a ...
“The New Bahamian is an uncouth boor” says UBP Cleophas Adderley 1968
Critically labelled as a negro government, the world waited with baited breath, for what many saw as the PLPs impending ...
Roland Symonette to Randol Fawkes “Name your terms. Whatever it is, we will meet it” January 1967
They say the UBP was so confident of the outcome of the January 10, 1967 general elections that Symonette didn't ...
Arsonists try to kill that old African Alladay Adderley, Nassau 1884
When Alex Hailey was finally able to find the name of his ancestor, Kunta Kinte, in the historical records, he ...
Built by Government, Royal Victoria Hotel for sale 1877
By 1861, twenty-seven years after the end of slavery, the Bahamas government was in a desperate place, money wise. Once ...
He said he had money. He lied. She get swing 1890
This story of misbegotten love, reminds me of that song by Bahamian artist Eddie Minnis "Straighten Up and Fly Right." ...
Governor For Less Than Five Months 1881
You can always tell which governors made very little impact or who served very short terms, in administrative office, in ...
Armed guards to protect Columbus statue Nassau 1832
Governor James Carmichael-Smyth was governor of the Bahamas from 1829-1833. He was a much despised and hated man, for no ...
Married by 13. A toothless hag by 35. Hope Town, Abaco women 1890
Disclaimer: We didn't write this. They did. So the ladies of Abaco need not write to us in protest. Who ...
Monument to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson erected in Nassau 1864
In 2017, there was much controversy over old built monuments to people who, despite whatever personal accomplishments were racist, or ...
Movie about racial inequality on British island banned 1957
There is a kind of running joke, among some, that after a black majority government came to power in the ...
Bahamas cook included on Queen’s honours list 1968
It is somewhat incredible to consider that the same Queen, Her Royal Highness Elizabeth II, who in 1968, conferred some ...
Three stolen Bahamians Throw Slaveship Captain Overboard 1795
For the rest of human time, and for every generation of Bahamians yet to come, this story, of three Bahama ...
Inagua Riot began with arrest of child abuser ends with two hangings 1937
In August 1937, two brothers, and a large group of men, terrorised the quiet island of Great Inagua, resulting in ...
Holy Ghost visits San Salvador 1885
In January 1886, a most extraordinary story appeared in the London Times. A parish Rector wrote about a strange occurrence ...
Love in 1928
In 1928, in America interracial marriage was against the law. Everyone knew this. The national prohibition on interracial marriages would ...
Are there no Bahamians to fill this position? Dr. Alonzo P. Holly, first president of the first boy’s industrial school in the Bahamas, who happened to be Haitian 1904
Sometimes, if one reads the current news, there are some who attempt to give every impression that the Bahamas has ...
David Biggs, of Congo Buta, New Providence, died by the visitation of God 1884
Medicine was far from an exact science in the 1800s. Death was as much a mystery, as was life. For ...
The ‘We March’ and ‘Freedom March’ of 1904
There is a saying, which offers something to the effect that, there is nothing new under the sun. It may ...
Elliott Roosevelt, son of former American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, implicated in plot to kill Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden Pindling 1973
On Tuesday September 18, 1973, a convicted swindler sat before a United States Senate SubCommittee and implicated the son of ...
“Income tax and Birth Control” so recommends a royal commission report 1942
When some 2,000 angry negro labourers rioted on June 1st, 1942, the destruction which ensued triggered an immediate investigation by ...
Bahamas Supreme Court hears the case of the “slap” 1952
The Bahamas Supreme Court hears death penalty cases, treaty disputes and complex disputes of company law; but in 1952, the ...
“We your Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects Natives of Africa” Grants Town, 1835
It is somewhat incredible, when one considers the speed in which a mutual savings scheme, a Friendly Society, was organised ...
“Hice up the John B. sail” by Austin Ira Destoup 1927
The work of Austin Ira Destoup (1883-1956), a Bahamian constable, composer and pianist, sits in the British Library, as well ...
The longest and stormiest House of Assembly session. Monday January 27, 1958
January 1958 was a tumultuous month for the Bahamas. It is little wonder that when they met at 8:15 pm ...
Pronounced dead before he actually was, or alive after he was actually dead Governor John Tinker, 1758
It's really nothing to laugh at, but Bahamians since that time, love to rush to report when someone has died, ...
What was the Bahamian Progressive League the first negro led political party? 1915
It may have been the first world war and serious global events swirling around, and engulfing the colonies, which started ...
Duke of Windsor dedicates a park and names it after himself. Nassau, October 1943
The abdicated king of England, the Duke of Windsor spent World War Two, as far away from England, as the ...
Articles of Capitulation. The Bahamas surrenders to the Spanish, 8th May 1782
The ancient proverb, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," is never more true than in war. Few remember ...
No sympathy for a near bankrupt Bahamas. July 1870
By 1870, The Bahamas had again fallen on hard economic times. Once lucrative industries like wrecking and the recent good ...
Who blew up the bus? January, 1958
Without the combustion power of dynamite, New Providence could not have been developed. Dynamite blew holes in the massive hills ...
“If there is trouble, let it be in my day so that my children may be free” Randol Fawkes, September 1958
By 1958, Randol Fawkes had already found his life's calling and had begun a long, arduous walk into the history ...
Bahamian negroes killed in riot in Mexico 1900
When 1,000 Bahamian negro labourers were imported into Mexico, to help build the railroad, everyone knew there would be trouble ...
Largest Tree In the World – Nassau 1900
In 1900, the largest tree in the world, sat in the public square in Nassau. It was called the "Hurricane ...
Former slave, Grace Lord, run down by carriage on her way from Emancipation Day jubilee in Fox Hill 1866
On August 8, 1866, the Nassau Herald noted that the festivities in Fox Hill for the August Emancipation Day observance, ...
Slave plantation 1792, up for sale again 74 years later!
Many generational fortunes, which came to underpin the wealth of untold European and American families, were made in the West ...
Briton Eaneas charged with wilfully attempting to decrease the population of New Providence. 1866
On August 25, 1866, in the Bahama Islands newspaper, there were two stories of suicide. Two men. One black, a ...
Saratoga, Hog Island, Winter Tourism 1910
By 1910, the entrepreneurial stirrings of trying to create a 'paradise island' for the cold and weary in America, were ...
The Execution of Murderess Susan Tait (part 2/2)
The execution of Susan Tait, a sisal cleaner, happened on 20th August 1909. After the trial, the death sentence handed ...
The Execution of murderess Susan Tait (part 1/2)
When two women, who worked at the local sisal cleaning house not far from Bay Street, got into a fight ...
Boot Blacks, Sponger Boys using foul language – time for a Reformatory School 1909
There was a time when the use of foul language, on the streets, on any of the islands in the ...
Black UBPs who ran in the 1960 by-elections (part 2/2)
The social and political order in 1960 had largely been in place since the first British appointed Governor, Woodes Rogers, ...
Black UBPs who ran in the 1960 elections (part 1/2)
The UBP (United Bahamian Party) officially announced its formation on 1st March 1958. They formed themselves out of the sitting ...
Dynamite explosion in house on Augusta Street, 1925
Statistically speaking, most accidents happen in the home. Statistically speaking, humans often do silly things without thinking. Sometimes, these silly ...
Sammy Davis Jr. refused service in Bahamas restaurant
The year was 1962, and it was a hot summer's day in late July, when Sammy Davis Jr., the American ...
Stafford Sands Won’t Discuss Bank Accounts August 1967
When the year 1967 dawned in the Bahamas, no one in the country could have imagined how it would end ...
Amnesty offered to Runaway Slaves 1792
1792 seemed to be a defining year in the Bahamas. It was a year which saw new pieces of legislation ...
Slave Whipper Wanted
The discipline of slaves was not a job taken lightly. In fact, there were those whose chief occupation was that ...
Bahama Islands Extract from AN ACT for regulating the hire of SLAVES, CARTS, WAGGONS, and DRAYS, and for other purposes therein mentioned 1800
The beginning of the 1800s saw various governors and members of the Assembly attempting to bring a measure of order ...
Looking for Love Nassau Bahamas 1800
Many of the early settlers and planters to the Bahamas in the 18th and early 19th centuries were men. And ...
Founder of the Ardastra Gardens, the only zoo in the Bahamas
On Friday September 5th, 2017 as the killer Category 5 hurricane Irma was barreling across the Atlantic Ocean toward the ...
Negroes Found Starving on Key Romano
The transatlantic slave journey is littered with untold stories of the dead, and near dead, who were taken by force, ...
The Obituary of Stephen Dillet, the first coloured member of the House of Assembly (2)
The second obituary of Stephen Dillet makes no mention of the fact that he originally came from Saint Domingo (renamed ...
The Obituary of Stephen Dillet, the first coloured member of the House of Assembly (1)
The death of Stephen Dillet, the first coloured man in the Assembly earned two obituaries. One in The Nassau Times, ...
3 million years ago THE PLEISTOCENE ICE AGE
Believe it or not, even the last ice age had a profound influence in forming the Bahama Islands. For about 2 ...
An Act to alter the name of Potter’s Field Burial Ground to The Western Cemetery 1906
With history, there is always a story behind the story. And the significance of changing the name of a burial ...
HOUSE REJECTS NEGRO AS DEPUTY SPEAKER 1958
When the chair of Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly became vacant, a junior member for the South, a ...
Cyril Stevenson, co-founder of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) of the Bahamas and prolific newspaper publisher.
Cyril St. John Stevenson, a dynamic figure during incredible times. Stevenson was born just a decade after the turn of ...
His Royal Highness Prince Philip of England on official visit to the Bahamas 1959
Official visits to the Bahamas have always involved a considerable level of spectacular pomp and circumstance. This was never more ...
Pompey Dala, the deed of indentured apprenticeship for a 10 year old boy
In 1807, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the The Slave Trade Act, on 25 March 1807. The act ...
The “hardest working man in show business” is in the house! 1963
"PLEASE, please, please take note: JAMES BROWN, arrived yesterday" so reported the Nassau Guardian in 1963. Nassau, in the 1960s, ...
Leon Walton Young MP – A question of citizenship and solvency
A little over 100 years ago, in 1915, the House of Assembly was thrown into crisis. What had been discovered, was ...
Charlottesville, Virginia and Charlottesville, Bahamas
Conquest and Colonialism somehow links us all. Britain was once a truly vast empire. It's influence and legacy still links ...
How a fateful stroke in an island paradise changed the US Supreme Court
After only a few hours in paradise to celebrate the new year, a stroke fell a Supreme Court justice. Justice ...
1916 – When spreading fake news was against the law in the Bahama Islands
In 1916, an early 20th century Bahamas could not have imagined how it would grow and change and evolve, into ...
After emancipation, there was once a place named Freetown, Eleuthera
The word ‘free’ once held a particularly special place in the hearts of black people across the Bahama Islands, during ...
The Bahamian Member of Parliament who was an MP for only six short weeks 1962
General elections are always exciting times in the Bahamas. Like all those that have transpired, elections are always filled with ...
Happy Constitution Day Bahama Islands!
Lost in the annals of time is one of the most momentous days in Bahamian history, the day the colony ...
TIME in History ~ 1647 A.D.
1647 - The first European settlement of the Bahamas EUROPE and RELIGION To understand why the first British settlers came ...
TIME IN HISTORY 1492 A.D.
October 12, 1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers the Bahamas This is the incredible point in the history of the islands, ...
THE LIMESTONE ROCK OF THE BAHAMAS
THE LIMESTONE ROCK 200 million years ago PREHISTORIC BAHAMAS As we walk along the shores and the beaches, as we ...