One Hundred and Fifty: John Moultrie’s American Slaves Sent to the Bahamas in 1784
The Moultrie name appears to have been introduced into The Bahamas in 1784. It came from South Carolina by way ...
“If I Should Die Before I Wake” The Death And Battle For Justice: Cyprian Michael Newry (1956-1984)
On the morning of April 30, 1984, a young Bahamian man was found dead in Miami, Florida. He was 27 ...
Coalition of Chiefs Collapses: Dissident Eight — All Voted Out 1972
Lynden Pindling did not stumble into power. He built it. Brick by brick, constituency by constituency, through years of organizing, ...
John P. Dean of Dean’s Lane — Free Man of Colour, Land Owner, Master of Ten Slaves, Member of the House of Assembly
Dean’s Lane is over 182 years old. The road was there before 1844. It sits today, part of a parcel ...
No White Woman Has Ever Sat in the House of Assembly: One Tried 1962
There has never been a white woman elected to the Bahamas House of Assembly. Not once. Not in the 64 ...
Clause 3 of HCA Predicts The Bahamas Will Lose Freeport in 2054
Credit must be given where it is due. Wallace Groves was a genius. Governor Lord Ranfurly and Sir Stafford Sands ...
The 50th Murder Victim: TaGia Soles-Armony (1980–2009)
The Bahamas recorded 78 murders in 2007 and 73 in 2008. By the 7th of August 2009, the count for ...
Co-Founder and Inheritor: Sir Charles Hayward (1892–1983) and His Son Sir “Union” Jack Hayward (1923–2015)
In Homer’s Odyssey, Telemachus did not choose his inheritance — he was born into a house his father had built, ...
Freeport’s First Investor: A then 100 year old Abaco Lumber Company 1946
The 1967 Commission of Inquiry into Casino Gambling in The Bahamas is not light reading. But for those willing to ...
Bahamas Reflected in Machiavelli’s “Great Man” Theory
There is a book, slim enough to hold in one hand, that has never gone out of print since it ...