“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, ...
How a Black Bahamian Democrat Brought the Bay Street Boys Back From the Dead: Stephen Spurgeon Bethel (1913–1994)
Let us begin with the audacity of it. In 1972, a Black Bahamian man — expelled from his own party, ...
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 ...
“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 ...