Bahamas threatened with U.S. sanctions as two Cuban dentists detained for almost a year 2006
In 2006, The Bahamas received a blunt message, which was published in the Miami Herald newspaper. The Bahamas was not ...
Political Slavery a letter written 100 years ago Nassau 1924
In philosophical terms, the original value of man, an hypothesis promulgated by progressive society and religious doctrine, imposed an intellectual ...
Government Swindles Negro Land Owners in Oakes Field 1955
Ironies underly the history of the land known as Oakes Field. It was Harold G. Christie (H. G. Christie) who ...
House says no to Financial Secretary post but British insist 1955
By 1955, public sector revenues were on a promising upward trajectory. For a small island colony of the British Empire, ...
Pindling chosen for greatness despite Randol Fawkes being senior PLP member for Southern District – July 1956
The evening of 8th July 1956 was a defining moment in Bahamian political history. That night would alter the lives ...
Deputy Prime Minister post created by Pindling to help save Majority Rule – 20th February 1968
By the close of 1967, Premier Pindling was already well aware that there were those within his PLP administration who ...
Two by-elections lost, facing defeat in a third, Majority Rule’s near collapse in 1968
“I ought to allow for rigor mortis to have set in….” These were the scathing remarks intended to scold Opposition ...
Pindling Snatches Immigration From DPM Hanna, Pulls Finance from Carlton Francis – February 1973
In 1973, within the quiet revolution of tremendous sociopolitical change, there was also turmoil brewing within the political inner circle ...
PLP Party was born on East Street not Long Island 1953
They may have been Long Island boys by birth, but the political party they founded, was born, in an old ...
Doris Johnson, a modern, emancipated woman 1964, posthumously a National Hero in 2023
Dame Doris Johnson (1921-1983) was recently posthumously honoured, in the 50th anniversary—2023 Independence National Honours—with the distinguished Order of National ...