
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 ...

A Nation Is Born – The Definitive Bahamian Independence Album 1973
In early 1973, as the Bahamas was fast approaching that very first Independence Day, scheduled for 10th July 1973, the ...

Stafford Sands was lawyer behind development of Lyford Cay 1950
When the true history books are finally written on the under the table land deals, government kickbacks, collusion, bribery and ...

Largest Land Transfer Since Columbus Come Tief Up All We Land – H. G. Christie Transfers 2,800 Acres To E. P. Taylor of Lyford Cay 1956
‘They tief every gaddamn bit… all of it was once we Crown Land,’ my Grammy used to say. ‘And there ...

PLP Founder Forced To Resign From HOA After Sentenced To Four Years For Multiple Land Scams 1956
William W. Cartwright was elected, as the Member for Cat Island, in the 1949. Cartwright ran as an Independent. He ...

‘Come Outside So I Could Bust You In Your Mouth’ says PM Pindling to Michael Lightbourne MP 1975
‘Who run you hot’ is a common Bahamian saying. It simply means, who or what has made you angry… really ...

Stephen Dillet’s Outside Children – Myth or Reality? Whatever happened to his Slaves? Was Stephen the first ‘Dillet’ in The Bahamas?
Stephen Dillet had an interesting personal life, if anecdotal evidence is to be believed. To fully understand what is proving ...

The Hon. Lewis Kerr legitimises his mulatto slave daughter Eliza Ann 1826
The fate of mulatto children —the children of white slaveowners— was as precarious as any other slave. All depended on ...

PLP Very FIRST Director of Communications was a white man, a fixer, named David Probinksy – January 1967
David Probinksy, was a onetime Miami night club owner, catering to coloureds, in the 1950s. By 1965, Probinksy had became ...

Young, Gifted and Black – Alfred Francis Adderley MHA 1924
In 1924, “Millionaire’s Row” on Augusta Street Hill was awaiting A. F. Adderley’s house to be completed. Lineage, is what ...