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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1896 and 1996: How Two Supreme Court Acts Transformed Bahamian Law
The Bahamas Supreme Court Act of 1896 represents one of the most significant pieces of legislation in the development of ...