“Don’t Vote For Him; He Likin’ White Woman”: The Smear That Did Not Work on Cyril St. John Stevenson, 1956
Cyril St. John Stevenson was a man caught in the crevice of enormous social and political change — change he ...
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 ...
Chipman (d.1951) Chipman (d.1957) Chipman (d.1962) Chipman (d.2013) Chipman (d.2014) and the Court Case
There is a particular truth about The Bahamas that the official histories have long preferred to leave unspoken. It is ...
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 ...
What Violence Leaves Behind: Kyhiliee Chamar Wallace (1980–2012) and Twenty-Five Fatherless Children
Kyhiliee Chamar Wallace was shot five times and left in the bushes off Marshall Road in New Providence on Tuesday ...
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 ...