The year 1967 strikes a high note in the life of the Bahamian people. Fairer franchise and electoral arrangements gave ordinary citizens new room for political expression. A sidelined racial majority, helped by that fresh dispensation, came to…

Bahamian business has meant small business, for the most part, and has often meant family business. From barbers to fruit vendors, from dry goods merchants to funeral directors, from lawyers to farmers, from midwives to after-school tutors to shoe…