Dear Editor, Recently, I listened attentively as a fifth grade student give the meaning of the colors in the Bahamian flag. She said that the black in the flag stands for the strength of the Bahamian people. I was surprised by this. When I attended school during the tumultuous 1980s, we were told by our
Dear Editor, I am not and never have been a bootlicker or pandering supplicant for any political party or leader, save for when the late Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling was in office. That man, who will never be replicated, politically, in my view, was the first transformative leader of the modern Bahamas. I challenge anyone
Fifty years ago this month, Lynden Pindling led a delegation to the Constitutional Conference in London. Kendal Isaacs led the opposition. On December 20, 1972, the delegation signed the independence agreement, and on June 26, 1973, the British Parliament enacted the Bahamas Independence Order. The official date for independence is July 10, 1973 when the
This article is courtesy of The Nassau Herald: The Voice of the Nation, Friday, November 25, 1983 November 23, 1953, was the official date of the founding of the Progressive Liberal Party. Months of feverish preparation by the founders and a small band of supporters finally led to the establishment of the first political party
In the late 1940s, students from around the Caribbean and North Atlantic attended university in London. These persons included Errol Barrow, of Barbados, Eugenia Charles, of Dominica, Michael Manley, .