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 years since women were given the right to vote in Continue Reading
First Woman to Join the PLP Died Before Seeing Independence: Ethel Alice Kemp (1933-1973)
In the 1950s, The Bahamas was a Crown Colony. The Progressive Liberal Party had only recently been founded, and Bahamian women did not yet have the vote. Politics was largely Continue Reading
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 sit with its transcript, it begins to illuminate something remarkable Continue Reading
A Love Letter Written in Law: The Last Will and Testament of Kelson Samuel Cox (1928 – 2023)
There are love stories, and then there are Bahamian love stories. Not the kind written in novels or sung in ballads — but the kind forged in the predawn darkness Continue Reading
Azure a Fess Or Issuing from the Dexter… Nassau 1972
Once you know what it means, it becomes poetry of an iambic pentameter that upon uttering can summon every will and valour. Azure a Fess Or Issuing from the Dexter Continue Reading