The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
By 1967, Canadian authorities had had just about enough of the millionaire-rich, beggar-poor UBP (United Bahamian Party) Bahamas government. They had enough money to lure the rich to buy land, Continue Reading
If truth be told, Sir Harry Oakes wasted his life and fortune in the Bahamas. He was neither mourned, nor remembered, save only by his family, if that. The white, Continue Reading
Substantial crown land grants, given to the Loyalists, an assortment of British settlers, and to a miscellaneous hodgepodge of opportunist supporters of the English monarchy, were nothing short of staggering. Continue Reading
Governor Ranfurly wrote that Milo Butler was “hugely fat and unattractive coloured man without a brain in his head.” Ranfurly’s wife called him “Minus Butler.” Randol Fawkes was “utterly untrustworthy Continue Reading
In terms of understanding modern Bahamian political history, there is no bypassing the beginnings of the Progressive Liberal Party. In 1956, Henry Milton Taylor, co-founder and Chairman of the Progressive Continue Reading
