Sir Randol Francis Fawkes (20 March 1924 – 15 June 2000)[1][2] was a Bahamian politician, trade unionist and lawyer.
He served as Member of Parliament for the St. Barnabas constituency and for a short time as a Cabinet Minister in the first Pindling government.
[1] Fawkes is best remembered for the part he played in swinging the Bahamas' 1967 general election to bring about black "majority rule".
In 1967, the Bahamas was a British colony ruled, despite its approximately 85% black population, by a white elite known as the Bay Street Boys.
[2][4] Fawkes and Braynen threw their votes behind the Pindling-led PLP making it the first time that the Bahamas was run by a black government ("majority rule").