Bahamas cost of living: $10,000 per year 1968 to $10,000 per month 2024
In 1968, the colony’s Chamber of Commerce, such as it was, “warned” of sharp rises in its new cost of living measure. For a Bahamian family of three, to live Continue Reading
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 too subtly asked to consider several factors when deciding between Continue Reading
Inagua Man Finds Rare Ambergris Paid Peanuts Told He Was Born 100 Years Too Late 1955
Imagine you are living on an island in The Bahamas. Not the built up, business capital, New Providence, but one although idyllic, is much less populated, with fewer industries and Continue Reading
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 conundrum for the emancipated negro. By 1924, some 90 years Continue Reading
First Bahamian Female Doctor Florinda Cambridge returns home 1955
Dr. Florinda Cambridge was born in 1922 on Hay Street in Nassau. Her mother was Clarinda Speed Cambridge, born in 1905, in Florida. Her father was James A. Cambridge, born Continue Reading