Uriah McPhee, The Death That Solidified Black Power Politics in The Bahamas 1968

Nestled between Augusta and Nassau Streets, in the heart of old Nassau, there rests in the solemn, underbrush challenged Western …
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Resigned PLP Education Minister Cecil Wallace-Whitfield Beaten When Ten Men Try To Stop Political Meeting – Freeport November 1970

Ten men, bent on rendering violence and mayhem, in order to stop a political meeting of rebel PLP members, were …
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American Armed Robber Buys Bahamian Passport And Becomes Dr. Micheal James Robertson of Cable Beach 1984

For $25,000, an American armoured car robber, managed to buy a Bahamian passport and a new fugitive life in Cable …
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Eric Wiberg Travelled 10,000 Nautical Miles To Chronicle Bahamian Maritime History

For The Bahamas, these incomparable, crystal blue waters have long been an intrinsic part of its economic and social history …
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Unusual Deaths From Long Time 1940 – 1960 Part One

Death in the African tradition is a complicated process. The process of Death encompasses magic and gods and chieftains and …
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Consumption, La Grippe, Syphilis, Typhoid, Fever: Major Causes of Death in The Bahamas 1917 – 1920

Reading historical death records may not be the exciting of things to do on any given day. However, during a …
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Attesting to the Pure Whiteness of George Granville Morton of Palmetto Point, Eleuthera 1907

For Bahamian whites and those hoping to pass for white, there were tough times ahead, as they emigrated from the …
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Tracing Forgotten History of one novel flu virus “Wuhan Flu” H3N2 (1978 – 1998)

As the sun rose over the Bahama Islands, on Thursday, April 16th, 2020, this small island nation, found itself locked …
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Polio Epidemic Hits Bahamas With Ban and Mandatory 14 Day Quarantine For Foreign Arrivals 1946. Polio Outbreak Causes Immunization of Entire Population 1964

In the early 20th century, few diseases were more dreaded, than the crippling infantile paralysis disease, called polio. Polio, short …
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Coronal Cold To Coronavirus To Covid-19 – 1970 to 2020

On 27 March 2020, nine cases of the Covid-19, novel coronavirus, were confirmed for The Bahamas. One recorded hospitalisation and …
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