This week
www.dabahamianting.com (http://www.dabahamianting.com)
is celebrating our National Heroes.

Visit one of the most comprehensive online studies of Bahamian music, courtesy of Mr. Chris Justilien. Check out a photo gallery of political, religious, and civic National Heroes. Vote for Cacique Award Nominees. And tune into da weekly Soundbyte: "Come share my love" by D Mac. Updates throughout the week

Very nice, but where is Charlie Lofthouse, calypso songwriter of standards such as "Island Woman," "Mama Don't Want No Peas No Rice" ... or the Percentie Brothers, writers of many classic tunes including "Briland Rhumba"?

I congratulate you on your website. It is websites like yours that will help to foster our national pride. I'm in the process of creating a website dedicated to our national heroes. However, i need help. If anyone have any Bahamian they would like to norminate for inclusion, can do so by sending the name, photo/s and information or where it or all of the above maybe obtained to bahamasportal@gmail.com. All input will be gratefully appreciated.

'In their footsteps we walk'
- Islanbatman

Very nice, but where is Charlie Lofthouse, calypso songwriter of standards such as "Island Woman," "Mama Don't Want No Peas No Rice" ... or the Percentie Brothers, writers of many classic tunes including "Briland Rhumba"?

Good questions. There is a lady musician who is working on a similar project. She may have included the persons that you have mentioned. We'll see when her study is made available.

Oooh, small world ... just listening to Sirius satellite's "Margaritaville" radio channel, and what should pop up but the Percentie Brothers' "Goombay Drum" from more than thirty years ago???? Way to go, old school Briland calypso:p

Just a thought, but would the many men and women of our shores who worked American farms and fought side by side with American soldiers during World Wars I and II be considered heroes? These people built the foundation of today's Bahamian middle class ... just a thought.

Basil Johnson - Who was one of the only Bahamian fighter pilots in that time is indeed featured in DaBahamianTing.com's photo gallery, as well as a few other Bahamian soldiers who fought side by side with the British.

Sir Clifford Darling, who is featured on the main page of the site, was indeed one of the "contract" workers that you speak of. Of course, he was also a "champion of the labour unions" and was involved in the Burma Road Riots.

Yes, persons like the ones above are being recognized for their important roles in our nation's history. Just looking back on some of the things that have been previously taken for granted can give our youth something to live up to.