The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

The Post Office Department has released a set of five new stamps to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The five new stamps depict commemorative items and packaging released during the reigns of Victoria (65 cents), Edward VII (70 cents), George V (80 cents), George VI ($1.00) and […]

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Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald has admitted that there aren’t enough truancy officers and the ones who are in place cannot effectively do their jobs without the community’s help. Mr. Fitzgerald was responding to questions from reporters earlier this week about children continuously arriving to school late. “We don’t have enough truancy officers, I admit but […]

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The three Bahamian men who were stranded at sea for nearly a week were found alive and well in waters near Long Island on Valentine’s Day. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF), BASRA and Operations Bahamas and Turks and Caicos (OPBAT) called off the search for cousins 26-year-old Cecil Cartwright III and Julian Wallace and […]

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Youth leaders got an up close personal audience with Caricom Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque who met with the youngsters during a closed door session at the British Colonial Hotel Thursday. Ambassador LaRocque held candid closed door discussions with the youth leaders who represented various leadership organisations in the country including representatives from the College […]

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The time is past urgent for the current administration to be up and doing with efforts designed to make the nation’s tax system more equitable. In addition, there is no doubt at all that the time is also past urgent for the government and people of the Bahamas to understand that each and every able […]

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Prime Minister Perry Christie yesterday tabled a “white paper” on tax reform, which is the blueprint on how the government intends to transform the country’s tax system and introduce a value added tax (VAT) next year. It’s a promise the Christie administration made in its Speech from the Throne – “to review the Bahamian tax […]

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Several police officers from the Central Detective Unit (CDU) and the Southern Police Station have been placed on administrative leave pending a probe into two suspects’ deaths while in custody. National Security Minister Dr. Bernard Nottage made the announcement in the House of Assembly on Wednesday. However, he did not state how many officers were […]

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Car buyers beware. Police are once again warning members of the public to be cautious about whom they purchase cars from as the number of cars stolen so far for the year is already is the triple digits. During a news conference at the Central Detective Unit (CDU) yesterday, officials revealed that some 136 cars […]

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The Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) has donated $2,000 as well as food items to three local charities. PHA officials invited representatives from the charities to its corporate offices to receive the donations. PHA staff members raised the funds as part of its new year celebrations. R.E.A.C.H Bahamas, the Bilney Lane Children’s Home and the AIDS […]

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The team at Ben and Jerry’s in Marina Village wasted little effort in starting off their community work in 2013 at the Sister2Sister Walk in Paradise. As a few hundred men, women and children from New Providence and the Florida area via the Norwegian Sky Cruise ship descended on to Paradise Island for the annual […]

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