The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

An early morning shooting has left one man dead and another fighting to stay alive in hospital over in Grand Bahama. Residents told police it was around 7:30 a.m. that gunshots rang out in the Churchill Drive area. When officers arrived on the scene, they met a male on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds […]

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The Free National Movement (FNM) has called on President of The Bahamas Nurses Union (BNU) Cleola Hamilton to resign from her post as it poses a conflict of interest. In a statement released Monday, the minority party accused Mrs. Hamilton, who has also been appointed a parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of […]

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A 22-year-old Podoleo Street resident was charged with murder yesterday. Gregory Taylor is accused of murdering Keith Armbrister on September 30. Armbrister was shot to death as he stood in front of a Montell Heights home. Taylor, who was represented by attorney Mark Symonette-Rolle, was not required to enter a plea to the charge. His […]

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More than 90 contract Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) workers can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After more than a year, they have finally been made permanent. WSC executives and the Bahamas Utilities and Allied Workers Union (BUSAWU) yesterday signed an agreement, putting an end to the uncertainty. The corporation also secured the union’s […]

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Next week’s bye-election in North Abaco may be compromised as several presiding officers have been replaced at the last minute, according to the Free National Movement (FNM) The FNM yesterday said it is surprised that Parliamentary Commissioner Errol Bethel, “presumably after instructions,” has named eight new presiding officers to man eight of the 12 polling […]

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A magistrate yesterday ruled that there is no evidence to implicate former Democratic National Alliance (DNA) MICAL candidate Delano Munroe in the $15,000 theft of Junior Achievement (JA) Bahamas funds. On Monday, Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans ruled that Mr. Munroe had no case to answer in the matter of the missing funds. Mr. Munroe, who was […]

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Stakeholders in the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and the financial and private sectors are preparing for a major symposium to discuss the pivotal issues of tax reform in The Bahamas. At a news conference at the Chamber yesterday, officials again gathered to appeal to the public to come to the National Symposium for Tax Reform, […]

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Hundreds of schools, church groups, and youth organizations yesterday took part in the Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture’s annual National Youth Day March.

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Two separate weekend traffic accidents have left two people dead. In the most recent incident, a male pedestrian was fatally struck on Saturday evening. According to police, sometime around 9:00 p.m. the man was crossing the East Street South thoroughfare when the driver of a silver Honda vehicle struck him. The victim died at the […]

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Narcotics trafficking through the Caribbean and the associated criminality that comes along with it may be about to get worse, A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report has warned. The report said there is a growing risk that the Caribbean could once again become the primary conduit for narcotics trafficking into the US. […]

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