[2] In 1956, Dupuch, together with his younger brother Eugene,[1] introduced the first comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation in the colony's history, to outlaw racial discrimination in hotels, restaurants and other public places[6] at a time when the country's tourist industry was experiencing dramatic growth.
Many prominent Bahamian journalists learned their craft under his tutelage, including Sir Arthur Foulkes,[citation needed] former Governor-General of the Bahamas from 2012 to 2014.
[3][8] In 1972, aged 73, Dupuch handed control of the Tribune to his daughter Eileen,[3] a qualified barrister and graduate of Columbia University journalism school, who remains its publisher to the present day.
Its exposure of a scandal involving the American cover girl Anna Nicole Smith was blamed for the fall of the Progressive Liberal Party government in 2007.
[citation needed] Dupuch was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)[12] in 1949 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965.
[14] Dupuch died on 23 August 1991,[1][2][3][4][15] aged 92, after catching on fire in the garden of his home in Camperdown, Nassau, Bahamas while trying to destroy an ants' nest.