History of sir arthur foulkes biography

Eighth Governor General, Nation-Builder

Sir Arthur Alexander Foulkes is a Bahamian politician who served as the eighth governor-general of the Bahamas.

A founder of the Free National Movement, Sir Arthur was elected to the House of Assembly in 1967 and was appointed to the Senate in 1972 and 1977. Under Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, Sir Arthur served as Minister of Communications and Minister of Tourism. In 2001, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG). He was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished beställning of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG) in 2011.

Sir Arthur was born in Matthew Town on the island of Inagua. He began his career as a newspaper linotype operator for both the Nassau Guardian and The Tribune. During his tenure at The Tribune, Sir Arthur rose from reporter to News Editor beneath the tutelage of Sir Étienne Dupuch.

Sir Arthur became the Bahamas’ High Commissioner to the Unite

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In 1966, Tribune editor Sir Etienne Dupuch and Bahamian Times editor Arthur Foulkes, engaged in a very public war of words. There were two such published exchanges in the Tribune newspaper of 22nd April 1966 and 3rd May 1966.

What may have started as political taunts, quickly turned personal.

The Bahamian Times was a relatively new publication having started around or shortly before 1964. It was a Progressive Liberal Party sponsored newspaper. The Tribune (Nassau), on the other hand, was one of the oldest dailies, began publishing in 1903.

Arthur Foulkes was born in 1928. Etienne Dupuch was born in 1899.

Foulkes had some knowledge of Dupuch from working with him at the Tribune and sharing personal information. Foulkes, as a PLP sponsored newspaper editor, appeared to have begun making, what Dupuch claimed, were personal attacks, in The Bahamian Times, against Sir Etienne and his family This was all part and parcel of ‘political unmasking or undressing,’ a new trend in l

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We last spoke on May 11, the 95th birthday of George’s beloved friend, Arthur. This journal’s managing editor asked who the paper might contact to pay tribute to Sir Arthur Foulkes, five years shy of becoming a centenarian.

The first person who came to mind was George Smith. He eagerly agreed. George lionised his friend, recalling the former’s contributions to politics and to journalism, acknowledging him as one of the best and most creative writers and minds the country has produced.

But George, 13 years younger than Sir Arthur, mostly spoke of the joy and sustenance of their friendship, and of personal loyalty beyond political and other affiliations.

Afterward, George bemoaningly offered a brief discourse on the state of politics and journalism. He offered his mixed thoughts on the 50th anniversary of independence, describing what The Bahamas has achieved along with our lamentable failings.

He knew there was no golden age. Still, he recalled a treasury of past politica