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 ...
He Didn’t Like Politics But Politics Liked Him: The Richest Bahamian Dies, 1994
When Charles Trevor Kelly, C.B.E., was laid to rest in St. Anne’s Cemetery, Fox Hill, in June 1994, The Bahama ...
THE TWO-PARTY TRAP: HOW BAHAMIAN VOTERS BECAME Prisoners of False Choice
The Bahamian voter has developed an aversion to third party politics. Third parties are ignored, vilified, and dismissed as not ...
Fleecing Harry Oakes: H. G. Christie and Guy Brooke Baxter in Nassau land deal 1935
One question haunts two land deals of April 15, 1935: Why didn’t H. G. Christie sell his 100 acres, in ...