Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He was born Alfred Etienne Jerome Dupuch to Leon [3] and Harriet (née Saunders) Dupuch.. Etienne's mother died in 1909 giving birth to a stillborn daughter. [1] Etienne's father, Leon, founder of the Tribune newspaper, died five years later in 1914 [1] when young Dupuch was 15 years old.
David Mitchell (1972 – 6 January 2000) was a Bahamian murderer who killed two German tourists in the Bahamas and was executed as a result. He is the most recent executed prisoner to be performed by the Bahamas. Mitchell was convicted of stabbing his victims to death and received the mandatory sentence of death by hanging. He was originally ...
He was the President of the Senate of the Bahamas from 1964 to 1972. [5] In 1973, he became the first Chief Justice in the newly independent Bahamas , a position he held until 1978. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He had to be sworn in before the Bahamian Independence Day on 10 July 1973 because it was his duty to swear in the first prime minister.
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American Revolutionary War, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists to the Bahamas; they took enslaved people with them and established plantations on land grants. Enslaved Africans and their descendants constituted the majority of ...
Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet (23 December 1874 – 7 July 1943) was a British gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.He earned his fortune in Canada and moved to the Bahamas in the 1930s for tax purposes.
Sir Clifford Darling GCVO JP (6 February 1922 [1] – 27 December 2011) [2] was the fifth governor-general of the Bahamas from 2 January 1992 until his retirement on 2 January 1995. Early life and education
Sidney Poitier, first black man to win an Oscar, first black Bahamian actor to win Best Actor, first black Bahamian actor to be nominated for best actor.; Shaunae Miller-Uibo, sprinter, 2016 Olympic 400m champion, and world record holder in 200m straight
Cordell Farrington (born 1968) is a Bahamian serial killer who killed four children and his adult lover from 2002 to 2003. [1] Initially sentenced to death for killing 22-year-old Jamal Robins, he was later resentenced to another count of life imprisonment on the basis of his insanity.