Before Sir Asa H. Pritchard was a successful businessman and noted politician, he worked in his father’s dry goods store in Nassau, which opened in 1874. In 1921, he took over his father’s business and started his eponymous food store, building on…

The Reef Restaurant, located on University Drive in Oakes Field, New Providence, was established in 1960 by a Canadian couple, the Guys. Upon their departure from The Bahamas in the late 1960s they turned over the ownership of the restaurant to…

Mortimer Candies has been a landmark in the “Over The Hill” community since 1928. The business was started by Ulric Mortimer, Sr., who first learned to make candies from his mother when he was a child. He was motivated to set up a manufacturing…

A. Baker & Sons, established in 1894, is known to be one of the oldest surviving businesses in The Bahamas, and may be the oldest store still remaining in its original location on Bay Street. A. Baker and Sons was founded by Mr. Anthony Baker,…

World War II brought to city-based Bahamians high levels of unemployment and poverty as the community’s seasonal tourism industry collapsed. By 1942 the prospect of a decline in the construction sector threatened workers with further hardship.…

From calling to career and from clinic to classroom, nursing has evolved dramatically into the respected profession The Bahamas recognizes today. While nursing education has been a part of Bahamian history since the turn of the 20th century, its…

No social movement or set of political ideas could lay sole claim to the grassy expanse of the Southern Recreation Grounds. At mid-century, community leaders and politicians filled that open canvas – commonly called “Gov’ment Ground” – with calls…

During the Middle Ages, clergy wielded the mace offensively to conquer their enemies without shedding blood. In what would become a memorable year in the evolution of the Bahamas’s House of Assembly, Lynden Pindling would untether the institution’s…

Today a barren parking lot rests on East Street in downtown Nassau, across from an historic police station and a short walk from the parliament building.  In that parking lot once stood, half a century ago, a vibrant hotel: the Carlton House. At the…

Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, fly fishing in The Bahamas stirred a multi-million-dollar groundswell of enterprise. At the heart of this unfolding was the elusive game fish called the bonefish, “the ghost of the flats”. Bonefish are a…