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Obie Wilchcombe, the West Grand Bahama and Bimini MP, was the minister of social services, information and broadcasting with responsibility for Bahamas Information Services and the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas. Wilchcombe is the third minister to die in office in The Bahamas in the last 50 years. He is the only minister with portfolio to die ....
Dear Editor, The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) with the strategic assistance of Randol Fawkes and Alvin Braynen ushered in Majority Rule in The Bahamas following the general election of 1967. This historic achievement was the culmination of decades of struggle for political and civil rights by the PLP and its earlier iterations manifested by individuals ....
Former Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Cabinet minister George Smith, who is today one of the senior men in the governing party, said yesterday he understands why former Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling is so fiercely protective of her husband’s memory, and why she would have been offended if she was not properly acknowledged during a ....
The authority belongs to the people Remembering Black Tuesday and the push for fair boundary cuts The 56th anniversary of Black Tuesday is approaching. Though important in the march toward Majority Rule, the date April 27, 1965 is rarely discussed or acknowledged by the masses these days. Today, we are far removed from those times when great men and women displayed a level of courage that is unmatched by anyone currently on the national political stage. Perhaps the times demanded this kind of fearlessness from ordinary people who shared a vision for a better Bahamas. The date bears remembering. We should not allow it to fade from our collective consciousness. ....
EDITOR, The Tribune. I begin by quoting Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winning Black journalist and Princeton University professor: “Our country is like a really old house. I love old houses. I’ve always lived in old houses. But old houses need a lot of work. And the work is never done. And just when you think you’ve finished one renovation, it’s time to do something else. Something else has gone wrong.” And that’s what our country is like. And you may not want to go into that basement, but if you really don’t go into that basement, it’s at your own peril. And I think that whatever you are ignoring is not going to go away. Whatever you’re ignoring is only going to get worse. Whatever you’re ignoring will be there to be reckoned with until you reckon with it. And I think that that’s what we’re called upon to do where we are right now. ....