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Stories
Bethel Baptist Church
On Meeting Street in an area of New Providence known as Delancy Town sits a striking white edifice, its façade complete with stained glass imagery depicting the ascension of Christ and a steeple pointing towards the heavens. Arcades span the…
Government High School
Secondary education and public initiative joined hands at Nassau Court on April 27th, 1925 when the Colony formally opened its first fully government-sponsored secondary school, aptly naming it the Government High School. Prior to 1925, only…
The Mace of The House of Assembly
April 27, 1965 sealed a place in history for the Mace of the Bahamas’s House of Assembly. On that day Lynden Pindling, Leader of the Opposition in that parliamentary chamber, tossed the object from an upper window into the street below in a bid to…
The Reinhard Hotel
Bahamian history seeps from every inch of the four-storey Reinhard Hotel that occupies the corner of Baillou Hill Road and Tin Shop Corner. Initially designed and constructed by Dr. Claudius Roland Walker and Mrs. Mabel Walker in the 1930s, the…