The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

A former Cabinet minister and the attorney for several web shop operators is going head to head with a leading clergyman who recently condemned the government’s decision to regularise the local web shop industry. President of Bahamas Faith Ministries International (BFMI) Dr. Myles Munroe is convinced that moving ahead with such a plan will lead […]

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The Bahamas Postal Service has released a set of stamps celebrating the christening of Prince George. Born July 22, 2013 and christened October 23, of that same year, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge is the first child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Prince George is also third in […]

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A part from opening three mew murder investigations from the weekend, police are also probing a number shooting and stabbing incidents that have occurred. According to reports, just after 10:00 p.m. on Saturday a 21-year-old Nassau Village man was shot while in the Florida Court Area. Police arrived at the scene and met the man […]

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Free National Movement (FNM) Senator John Bostwick was arrested in Freeport on Saturday after he attempted to board a domestic flight with 10 rounds of ammunition in his possession. According to police, the senator was arrested following a routine search of his bag while at the Grand Bahama International Airport (GBIA) when authorities spotted the […]

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The Links Safe House for Women in Crisis is force to house up to 50 battered and abused mothers seeking refuge from domestic violence in their homes each year. Chairman of the facility Sharon Wilson said the amount of cases recorded each year is alarming. “The Nassau chapter of Links has operated a safe house […]

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Leading unionists may not have a problem with parliamentarians getting a salary increase, but considering the fiscal constraints the country is still wrestling and the outstanding needs of their members, “now is not the time.” In an interview with the Bahama Journal yesterday, Bahamas Public Services Union (BPSU) President, John Pinder said it is the […]

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More than 20 young men have completed the first phase of a three-day Shock Treatment Programme, the first of its kind in The Bahamas. Exposure to Her Majesty’s Prisons (HMP), former offenders and visits to the Central Police Station, the morgue and graveyards were some of the components of the programme that 22 young men […]

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The government is expected to spend $15 million to complete the construction of a new Approach Control Centre and purchase of a modern radar system as it moves to modernise the local aviation sector. According to Transport and Aviation Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin, of this figure, the radar totalled more than $11.8 million. It was chosen, […]

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Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader Branville McCartney yesterday called it insensitive that a Parliamentary select committee has recommended that the salaries of Members of Parliament (MPs) be increased and a new building be erected to house the upper and lower legislative bodies. “This is an embarrassment to our country yet again,” Mr. McCartney said at […]

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The Grand Bahama businessman shot and killed has been identified as Sedrick Hepburn. According to authorities, the 47-year-old Lincoln Green resident was walking alongside his girlfriend shortly before 6:00pm in the Fortune Bay Drive area shortly before 6:00p.m. when he was shot multiple times about the body. Hepburn’s companion was unharmed. Police are again appealing […]

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