The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

A teen boy was killed Saturday after he lost control of the car he was driving and crashed into a boulder, police have said. According to reports, shortly after 11:00 p.m. the 16-year-old male of Government Subdivision was travelling west by himself on Shell Road in Murphy Town when he apparently lost control of the […]

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Police are hoping to escort six men before a court early this week in connection with a major drug bust in western New Providence on Friday. Intelligence led Drug Enforcement Officers (DEU) headed to an area opposite St. Alban’s Drive, commonly referred to as the Sand Track around 6:00pm, where they reportedly spotted the suspects […]

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An injunction from the Privy Council on Friday ordered that the controversial dredging in Bimini to accommodate Resorts World Bimini Bahamas be discontinued immediately. In documents obtained by the Journal on Friday, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council said after consideration of the appellant’s application, who in this case is listed as Bimini Blue […]

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The government of The Bahamas is committed to ensuring that a wider representation of women in parliament is made a reality, according to Prime Minister Perry Christie who pointed to the disproportionate number of women in parliament and politics as an injustice. As keynote speaker for the opening ceremony for the regionalCommonwealth Women Parliamentary Association […]

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A police constable arrested early last week for allegedly beating his girlfriend to a pulp was on Friday arraigned in a Magistrates Court. Police Constable 3218 Cedric Rolle who was stationed in Abaco at the time of the incident appeared before Magistrate Andrew Forbes in Court #8 on one count each of burglary and causing […]

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Authorities intercepted 53 illegal immigrants in The Bahamas on Friday. The U.S. Coast Guard along with officers from Harbour Patrol spotted a 44 foot vessel just off the Great Isaac Bank with 52 Haitians and one Jamaican on board. Two Bahamian males, are believed to have captained the vessel, were also taken into custody. The […]

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Despite claims from both the current and former administrations of having no knowledge that the United States through its National Security Agency has been recording all cell phone calls made to, from and within The Bahamas, a US judge insists that the programme could not have happened without Bahamian intelligence. Andrew Napolitano, a former New […]

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Two men are recovering from gunshot injuries after being wounded in two separate incidents Saturday morning, according to police. The first incident occurred shortly after 1:00a.m., Saturday at a sports bar in Montell Heights. Police said a man was shot after several armed men entered the establishment and shot the man in the foot before […]

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Police are still trying to locate the driver of the vehicle that struck three men as they walked along a Grand Bahama street early Saturday morning, police have said. According to police reports, a group of four men between ages 18 to 19 years, were walking east along East Sunrise Highway in the area of […]

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Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday defended the government’s performance on job creation and maintained that the PLP never promised to create 10,000 jobs within its first year in office. Mr. Roberts, who appeared as a guest on Jones and Company Sunday, said that such a promise never came from the party but […]

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