
Nassau Prostitutes Selling Their Wares For Less Than a Dollar and One Unforgettable Case of The Clap, Nassau, 1940
Venereal diseases were rampant, in The Bahamas, in the 1800s. Most cases, especially on the Out Islands, went untreated until …
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats – Progressive Liberalism in The Bahamas 1967
For The Bahamas, since January 1967, Progressive Liberalism it can be said, became the first organised political ideology. It remains …
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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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