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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...