The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

A horrific traffic fatality over the weekend has left a man dead, a Honda Accord car split in two and a lamp pole broken in half. The country’s traffic fatality count now stands at 21 after the accident on Sir Milo Butler Highway. According to Superintendent Ken Strachan, the accident happened around 6:00 a.m. Sunday […]

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The country’s latest homicide victim has been identified by family members as 18-year-old Joshua Rolle. According to police, just after 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, gunshots were heard in the area of Quakoo Street, between Market and East Streets. A short while later Rolle’s body was found. He was wearing a short blue pants and white […]

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Seven months after vanishing, the family of missing mother Anya Wilmott, still desperate for answers and hoping to figure out what happened to the single mother, is now doubling the amount of the reward money being offered to anyone with information. Antoinette Newton, the mother of the missing woman, told the Bahama Journal recently that […]

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An early morning shootout ended yesterday with police killing two young men and arresting two others. Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson said officers were on a special operation in eastern New Providence around 2:15 a.m. Thursday when they spotted a small dark coloured vehicle in the Highbury Park area. “Officers pursued the vehicle that […]

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A trial date has been set for a man accused of the vicious killing of his girlfriend last year. Prince Hepburn will stand trial on August 27 for murdering 42-year-old Nellie Mae Brown last April. Senior Supreme Court Justice Jon Isaacs will preside over the trial. Police found Brown’s dismembered body on the kitchen floor […]

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The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) yesterday announced that it will add minutes, data or talk time to the accounts of each of its customers following the mass interruption that crippled the company’s landline, cell and broadband services Monday. BTC called the comprehensive package a “goodwill gesture.” “Even as we continue to uncover the cause of […]

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Free National Movement (FNM) Chairman Charles Maynard said he would be very “surprised” if former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham does not follow through on his promise to resign from his North Abaco seat. Mr. Ingraham told supporters after the FNM lost the May 7 General Election that he would resign from his seat. He later […]

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A popular bishop convicted of having sex with an underage girl will remain behind bars after an appeals panel tossed his appeal against sentence and conviction. But before the dismissal a senior justice blasted the clergyman for “disgustingly defiling the church.” Pilgrim Baptist Bishop, E. Randy Fraser was convicted last November of having unlawful sexual […]

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A Haitian man accused of playing a role in a deadly boating accident got his day in court Thursday. Forty three year-old Alphonse Edner was arraigned in court on 11 counts of abetment to manslaughter. It is alleged that Edner played a part in the June 10 boating tragedy where 11 people, believed to be […]

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It doesn’t appear that the national flag carrier will return to Bimini even as complaints from locals continue about reportedly getting sub-par service from two other local airlines, according to Member of Parliament for West End and Bimini Obie Wilchcombe. Western Air and Sky Bahamas currently service the route, but some locals are reporting that […]

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