When the House of Assembly met yesterday, an empty seat, a black satin drape and a photograph of the late Obie Wilchcombe with his characteristically broad smile were poignant markers
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In 1975, when Mike Smith, the then-news editor at the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas (BCB), went to speak at Career’s Day at Queen’s College (QC) in Nassau, everyone kept asking him if he met “Radio”. Radio, it turned out, was a young man from Grand Bahama by the name of Obie Wilchcombe. “Apparently, Obie used
On June 21, 2000, the defenselessness of the Fourth Estate was exposed by what was notably an unprecedented and extreme punishment for a member of the press, marking a historic moment. Journalist Obediah “Obie” Wilchcombe was sentenced to a four-day imprisonment in maximum security at then-Her Majesty’s Prison, Fox Hill, by then-coroner and magistrate, the