Co-Founder and Inheritor: Sir Charles Hayward (1892–1983) and His Son Sir “Union” Jack Hayward (1923–2015)

In Homer’s Odyssey, Telemachus did not choose his inheritance — he was born into a house his father had built, on ground his father had claimed, in the middle of Continue Reading

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Freeport’s First Investor: A then 100 year old Abaco Lumber Company 1946

The 1967 Commission of Inquiry into Casino Gambling in The Bahamas is not light reading. But for those willing to sit with its transcript, it begins to illuminate something remarkable Continue Reading

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Fleecing Harry Oakes: H. G. Christie and Guy Brooke Baxter in Nassau land deal 1935

One question haunts two land deals of April 15, 1935: Why didn’t H. G. Christie sell his 100 acres, in Caves, directly to Harry Oakes? Why sell for Pound Sterling Continue Reading

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