STATEMENT FROM FRED MITCHELL ON THE PASSING OF DAROLD MILLER

The Bahamas, October 6, 2024 – In 1978, I was the Director of News and Public Affairs at the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas. We were looking for talent.  I spotted it.  He was a sports writer at the Nassau Guardian. I agreed to hire him at the station, first in sports and then in news proper.  That was the start of a storied career in broadcast journalism: a charismatic sometimes irascible cross examiner who provided great entertainment and probing inquires for his  radio audience both here and in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

It was helpful that I knew his mother because she was the mother of one of my closest friends and later Permanent Secretary Philip Miller. He came from good stock.

There is no doubt that Darold Miller transformed the era of talk radio in The Bahamas and became its leading star.  We have lost that star in broadcasting today.

I wish on behalf of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, the leadership of our party, to extend condolences and that of my own and my family to his brothers Philip and Sammy, his sister Eunice and to Darold’s own family on his passing.  This is very sad indeed. May he rest in peace.