The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

Police officials could not confirm the official murder count up to press time but two more were recorded Saturday night after two men were killed and two others shot in separate incidents; one in a deadly shootout on East Street and the other stabbed to death in the Bain Town area. According to The Bahama […]

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The traffic fatality victim who died last Thursday after being struck on a major thoroughfare has been identified as an international recording artist and popular Bahamian entertainer. He is 75-year-old Brad Lundy of Stapledon Gardens. Mr. Lundy was born and raised in Calabash Bay, Andros, a settlement with a population of approximately six hundred, according […]

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Bahamas Red Cross Society officials dubbed the 73rd annual Red Cross Fair, held this past Saturday, a success. Bahamas Red Cross Director General Caroline Turnquest told the Bahama Journal that everything went off without a hitch for the event as well as for the 77 vendors who occupied stalls providing the games, food and excitement. […]

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Prime Minister Perry Christie left the country for Trinidad and Tobago yesterday where he will participate in the continuing Distinguish Lecture Series at one of the Caribbean’s premier tertiary institutions. There, Prime Minister Christie is scheduled to deliver a lecture on the role of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas in CARICOM and the future policy […]

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Two men spent the weekend in jail after they were arrested for possession of dangerous drugs amounting to $20,000. According to reports on Friday around 6:30 p.m., officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) acting on information went to the Lucayan Harbour and searched two men with luggage. Police found six clear plastic bags each […]

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One of three men arrested in connection with that nearly million dollar drug bust in waters near Andros last week pleaded guilty to drug charges while his co-accused maintained their innocence in court Friday. Pedro Brown, 45, Raymond Bain, 40, and Jacob Curtis 34, are charged with possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply, […]

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The attorney for the man accused of the fatal stabbing of a man last Saturday in Yellow Elder claimed her client acted in self defense during his arraignment Friday. Laquinton Dean, 29, is accused for the March 29 incident. It is alleged that he stabbed to death Jermaine Black aka ‘Blacks’ during an altercation along […]

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A 34-year-old man was arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court on Friday for the shooting death of 15- year-old Alexis Smith of Holmes Rock, Grand Bahama. Basil Black of Pinedale, Eight Mile Rock stood before Magistrate Gwendolyn Claude and was not required to enter a plea to the murder charge. Black was also arraigned on two […]

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The decomposed and badly burnt bodies of three males and one female, presumed to be Haitian nationals, were found on Anguilla Cay in the Cay Sal Bank near the coast of Cuba Thursday morning. According to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) Lieutenant Commander Raymond King, the bodies were burnt on the Cay some two […]

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The Department of Marine Resources has advised that the closed season for capturing crawfish, which started on April 1 and will run through to July 31, is in full effect. In a statement released over the weekend, the department said that during this period it is an offense for anyone to take, capture or have […]

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