The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

Although former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has apologised to the People’s Republic of China for the Christie administration’s handling of the pay-out for the reconfiguration of West Bay Street to Baha Mar, Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader Branville McCartney believes Mr. Ingraham should also apologise to Bahamians. In a press statement released Sunday, Mr. McCartney […]

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Free National Movement (FNM) Chairman Darron Cash doesn’t believe the party focused more on the controversy surrounding Peter Nygard, instead of the actual stem cell legislation. The chairman said this while speaking to Jones and Co. host Wendall Jones during his appearance on the programme. Mr. Cash said despite people only seeing the ‘blow-up’ over […]

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Police have another homicide investigation on their hands. The autopsy report into 18-year-old Altrika Young’s death shows the teen was strangled. Altrika’s body was found through a corner near St. Augustine’s Monastery Sunday evening. Police said she had no visible injuries. However, they suspect that she had been dead for about five to six hours. […]

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A 22-year old man of Lower Bogue, Eleuthera is in custody assisting police in connection with a burglary and attempted sexual assault of a female that occurred in Upper Bogue, Eleuthera on Tuesday. According to reports, shortly after 4:00 a.m., a man armed with a knife broke into the female’s residence in Upper Bogue and […]

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Opposition senators sat out of Senate proceedings yesterday after being denied the opportunity to make a communication when Senate proceedings began. The Free National Movement’s senators instead held a press conference in the Minority Room. Senator Kwasi Thompson, flanked by Leader of Opposition Business, Senator Desmond Bannister and Senator Heather Hunt, gave the communication to […]

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Opposition Senate members said Wednesday that House Speaker Dr. Kendal Major was out of line for suspending Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis last week for comments he made about the prime minister and by the same token, not forcing Tall Pines MP Leslie Miller to take back some very serious allegations he […]

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Ninety-four Haitian migrants were apprehended Tuesday afternoon by Her Majesty’s Bahamian Ship Yellow Elder. This event took place several hours after Defence Force Marines apprehended 16 Haitian migrants, who made it ashore shortly before 5:00 a.m. Tuesday morning after grounding their sailing sloop in waters off southern New Providence. The migrants – 81 men, 12 […]

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A 64-year-old man was sentenced to 16-years in prison yesterday as punishment for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. Justice Vera Watkins, who handed the down the sentence, explained that the aggravating factors of the case far outweighed the mitigating ones. The man committed the acts on a nine-year-old girl first in November 2009 […]

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Resorts World Bimini is expected to move rapidly in constructing a luxury hotel and marina with 350 rooms within three months as a part of its second phase. The announcement came yesterday at the groundbreaking ceremony where Prime Minister Perry Christie and a host of cabinet ministers joined Genting Group officials for the agreement signing […]

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President of the Bahamas Electrical Managerial Union (BEMU) Clinton Minnis said managers and line staff at the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) are concerned over their jobs after the government announced that it is seeking investors to manage two new electricity entities. In a statement released Tuesday night, Prime Minister Perry Christie said the government’s objective […]

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