Government Swindles Negro Land Owners in Oakes Field 1955
Ironies underly the history of the land known as Oakes Field. It was Harold G. Christie (H. G. Christie) who was behind the sale of all that land to Sir Continue Reading
House says no to Financial Secretary post but British insist 1955
By 1955, public sector revenues were on a promising upward trajectory. For a small island colony of the British Empire, this was nothing short of miraculous. Nassau, in particular, was Continue Reading
Deputy Prime Minister post created by Pindling to help save Majority Rule – 20th February 1968
By the close of 1967, Premier Pindling was already well aware that there were those within his PLP administration who were not happy. It appeared that there was an all Continue Reading
Two by-elections lost, facing defeat in a third, Majority Rule’s near collapse in 1968
“I ought to allow for rigor mortis to have set in….” These were the scathing remarks intended to scold Opposition United Bahamian Party leader, Sir Roland Symonette, by Alvin R. Continue Reading
JFK Assassination Records – Pindling and the PLP investigated in FBI files 1967
In 1992, the United States Congress ordered that records related to the 1963 assassination of Kennedy would remained sealed, in the interest of national security, for another 25 years. In Continue Reading