Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts

Monday, February 23, 2026

A Love Letter Written in Law: The Last Will and Testament of Kelson Samuel Cox (1928 – 2023)

 
Kelson and Dorcas Cox, 1955 and 2018

Kelson and Dorcas Cox, 1955 and 2018

 By The Bahamianologist

There are love stories, and then there are Bahamian love stories. Not the kind written in novels or sung in ballads — but the kind forged in the predawn darkness of five o’clock prayer meetings, in the flour-dusted kitchens of a family bakery, in the quiet determination of a man cooking meals from his wheelchair for the woman he had promised to cherish more than fifty years before.

The kind of love that does not announce itself but simply endures — through heart attacks and business failures, through family triumphs and heartbreaking loss, through the slow erosion of the body that cannot diminish the iron of the spirit. Read more>>

Sunday, January 11, 2026

National Coat of Arms Designer Rev. Dr. Hervis Bain Jr. (1942-2015)

 
Rev. Dr. Hervis Bain Jr. (1942-2015

Rev. Dr. Hervis Bain Jr. (1942-2015)
 
By Bahamianology.Com

To honour Majority Rule Day 2026, we remember Rev. Dr. Hervis Bain Jr. the designer of the Bahamian National Coat of Arms.

Hervis Leamonde Bain Jr., affectionately known as “Junior” or “Steeps,” was born February 5, 1942, in Nassau to musical parents Hervis Sr. and Helenor Bain. Growing up in Toote Shop Corner off East Street, he was raised in a home filled with family, friends, and music. Read more>> 

Friday, January 2, 2026

My Father’s Obituaries by Bahamianology.Com

 
Obitiuaries montage

Collected obituaries by the Late Rt. Honourable Bradley B. Roberts.
 
 

My father collected obituaries.


In retirement, after twenty-five years in politics and sixty years of working life, the Late Rt. Honourable Bradley B. Roberts turned his attention to a project both humble and monumental: collecting obituaries. Not dozens, but thousands—each one a thread in the vast tapestry of Bahamian ancestry, each one a doorway into the interconnected lives that built a nation. Read more>>

Sunday, November 30, 2025

A Celebration of Life: Lynn Sweeting

 
Lynn Sweeting flyer

A Celebration of the

Literary Life of Lynn Sweeting

Bahamian Poet, Feminist, Citizen Journalist
1962 - 2022 
 
Saturday, December 6, 2025
6pm - 7:30pm
The NAGB, West Hill Street
Nassau, Bahamas