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 young Judson Eneas, jailed in Nashville along with civil rights great John Robert Lewis for protesting against racial segregation in restaurants April 1964
In April 2020, the life of Dr. Judson Frazier Eneas, (April 18, 1947 – April 5, 2020) eminent Bahamian physician …
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 …
Independence Euphoria Marred By Dark Drugs Decade
Between 1978 and 1982, the euphoria of our 1973 national independence, had somehow dissipated. What took its place, some have …
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 …
From the hands of poor negro children picking cotton to Bay Street high fashion store Mademoiselle 1958
Few images have pricked the moral consciousness of 20th century America, more than photos of poor negroes – men, women …
National anthem had to be approved by England and that awkward aquamarine we still can’t get right some fifty years later 1973
In the decades following that very first national independence, a debate arose, over the meaning of the black triangle in …
Music as Identity: Should Bahamian Music Officially Be Called Goombay?
One can argue that independence, in 1973, had many goals to accomplish. Within that political exercise, negotiating sovereignty away from …