The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

KFC Nassau began its annual quest toward alleviating hunger and poverty in The Bahamas with the launch of KFC parent company Yum! Brands World Hunger Relief (WHR) campaign. This global charitable cause, which helps raise awareness and funds to aid the growing hunger crisis, helps to feed more than 90 million people in more than […]

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More Family Islands are hoping to strike gold in the near future. The Governor General Youth Award (GGYA) programme, which gives young Bahamians the opportunity to achieve personal excellence and build self-esteem, has brought four new units on stream in places where it’s needed the most – less populated Family Islands. First-time units got off […]

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A former female police officer arrested on suspicion of trying to export drugs earlier this year appeared in the Supreme Court seeking bail for a second time Monday. Former Police Constable Toni Sweeting was arrested back in April after she and two others were found with more than three pounds of cocaine at the Lynden […]

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Deputy Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) workers are not the only ones double dipping in the National Insurance Board (NIB) fund. According to Deputy Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis, the entire public service is guilty of it and that this is an issue the government has been closely watching for […]

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Members of the Royal Bahamas Defence and Police Forces yesterday paid tribute to the veterans of World War I and II as part of Remembrance Day . (Photo: Lamond Johnson)

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With tensions rising and threats of industrial action imminent, Prime Minister Perry Christie stepped him in the fray a bid to stave off any possible action. Mr. Christie met with several union heads on Friday to discuss a number of outstanding issues that have been plaguing the civil servants from customs and immigration officers’ medical […]

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Police yesterday arrested a male suspect in connection with one of the country’s most recent murders. According to Head of the Central Detective Unit, Superintendent Paul Rolle, the Chippingham resident was picked up around 4:oop.m. Sunday, only two days after the shooting death of 21-year-old Timothy Rolle. Detectives found the Rockcrusher resident with a single […]

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A 77-year-old Canadian visitor is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a shark in Eleuthera yesterday. According to reports, around 11:00a.m., the victim was fishing with friends aboard a boat off Cape Eleuthera, when he was attacked by a shark, injuring him in both the leg and arm. The victim, whose identity has […]

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The recommendations submitted by the public on how best to tackle the country’s crime woes have yielded some positive results, according to the national security minister. Dr. Bernard Nottage even went a step further to say he has “seen success” from the suggestions. The first public crime forum, “Operation Ceasefire” was held in August. Practical […]

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Supreme Court Justice Bernard Turner has ordered a new trial in the case of two alleged armed robbers after one of the accused was killed last Monday. Justice Turner discharged the jury in the armed robbery trial of Theophilus Lloyd and Lamar Roberts on Friday, only days after the latter was killed in Pinewood Gardens. […]

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