The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

A 27-year-old Grand Bahama man is expected to be charged in court with a hit-and-run. The man, who was driving a maroon van, crashed into a 16-year-old pedestrian and allegedly fled the scene before police arrived. The incident happened on September 28 at 3:30 p.m. in the Ponce de Leon Drive area. The pedestrian, who […]

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Now that Prime Minister Perry Christie has publicly stated his disagreement with Minister of National Insurance Shane Gibson regarding his decision to reveal National Insurance Board (NIB) information on a bye-election candidate, he has no choice but to fire him, the Free National Movement (FNM) said yesterday. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Christie said he would […]

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Bahamas Constitution Party (BCP) Servant Leader Ali McIntosh yesterday scolded the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) for the “vicious and vile” name calling and personal attacks on Free National Movement (FNM) North Abaco candidate, Greg Gomez. The PLP has taken Mr. Gomez to task over his employment record. Mr. Gomez is currently unemployed, yet he is […]

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If we are to ever again live in and enjoy existence in a more loving kind of society, we must in this time of troubles generate a new kind of vision and a new set of plans for the realization of such a beloved community; that sweet place where people are bound together by cords […]

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Dear Editor, I am compelled to submit this letter in tribute to the late Paul L. Adderley, whom I admired greatly as a statesman and a person. In 1962, a year after joining the police force, I was riding my bicycle on Thompson Boulevard in the area of what is now the College of The […]

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An island-wide manhunt is on for a suspect accused of an early morning armed robbery and traffic accident in eastern New Providence. Crime scene tape cordoned off a portion of the road at the intersection at Fox Hill Road and Sea Breeze Lane as police investigated what initially appeared to a three-car collision directly in […]

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Prime Minister Perry Christie on Wednesday tried to allay the concerns of the more than 350 former City Market employees still demanding their severance packages and pension fund. The workers were sent to the unemployment line after the food store chain folded in March. The former employees are demanding a collective $3 million severance package […]

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Police have released the identity of the country’s 88th homicide victim. Seventeen-year-old Trevon Black of Meadow Street was shot to death Tuesday on Dunmore Street off Hospital Lane. Little details have emerged about the circumstances surrounding the shooting and residents in the area refused to talk to the media. The incident happened shortly before 4:00 […]

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As regional leaders in the Caribbean are in The Bahamas discuss ways to conserve and provide access to clean water to more people in the region, health experts say discussions on these countries’ sanitation practices should not be left out. More than 300 water and wastewater professionals and related entities are in The Bahamas attending […]

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Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) residents no longer have to make costly trips to New Providence to renew their U.S. passports or receive other consular services. The U.S. Embassy this week officially opened its remodeled Consular Agency Office in Providenciales, TCI, marking the establishment of the first “brick and mortar” presence of the U.S. Embassy […]

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