The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

With no time to waste on feather-bedding and molly-coddling for any interest [vested or otherwise]; the current Christie-led administration would be well-advised to be up and doing with seeing to it that its law-mandated appointments to this or that agency, Board or Committee are promptly executed. In addition, the current administration would be well-advised to […]

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A Sandilands Village Road man is the country’s latest homicide victim. The Journal understands that 47-year-old Owen Rolle was shot just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday. The homicide count now stands at 62. Superintendent Paul Rolle told the Journal that Rolle was at a house party through Podoleo Street when attendees heard gunshots. When police arrived […]

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Nineteen people were murdered last month, tying last July’s number. On May 3, police had three murders on their hands – all occurring in New Providence. The first incident occurred around 8:00 a.m. at a home on Sumner Street, Nassau Village. Forty-six-year-old Ricardo Rolle was at his home when he was shot to death. The […]

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Stephen “Die” Stubbs was charged in magistrates’ court yesterday for a murder that happened three years ago. Stubbs, who was recently a wanted man until being caught last week, was under heavy police guard. In fact, many officers guarded him with high powered weapons. The 37-year-old Ridgeland Park resident appeared before Magistrate Gullimina Archer. Stubbs […]

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A man accused of shooting a police officer in the face as he tried to escape police custody over the weekend was arraigned in court on Monday on a laundry list of charges. Twenty five-year-old Reginald Kenton Chase is accused of shooting police officer 3337 Herman Pinder on June 2. According to police, Chase was […]

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Anyone charged with harming or murdering a law enforcement officer will be tried within six months of being charged with the crime, Attorney General and Government Leader of Business in the Senate Allyson Maynard-Gibson announced on Monday. Mrs. Maynard-Gibson also announced during a debate on a resolution thanking the Governor General for reading the Speech […]

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A Pinewood Gardens man was charged in court yesterday with holding up the CIBC FirstCaribbean Bank at the Mall at Marathon last week. Police believe 22-year-old Carlton Russell of Maple Street is one of two men who robbed the bank on May 31. It is alleged that Russell, while armed with mace, robbed two bank […]

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A senior police officer yesterday admitted that many of the country’s murders stem from arguments over women. “Young men are feuding over women. Family members are aware of it and they try their best to intervene,” Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade admitted yesterday during a news conference at police headquarters. “Sometimes these men are best friends […]

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Skeletal remains were discovered on Prime Cay in the Exuma chain Saturday night, police said. Officers from the George Town Police Station, acting on a tip, travelled to the area at 8:10 p.m. When they got there they found the human remains with what appeared to be a rope tied around the neck. Police could […]

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Prime Minister Perry Christie’s announcement last week that his government will look at reclaiming a majority interest in the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) came as welcome news to President of The Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union (BCPOU) Bernard Evans. The Ingraham administration’s decision to sell 51 per cent share ownership to Cable and Wireless […]

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