The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

Police are looking for four men wanted for various offences ranging from murder to grievous harm. Authorities released all points bulletin for 23-year-old Kirkwood Rolle of Masons Addition is being sought in reference to a recent murder. Rolle is dark brown with a slim build and stands six feet four inched tall. Also on the […]

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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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Labour and National Insurance Minister Shane Gibson said yesterday that elements of the government’s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) will be implemented ahead of the new January 2016 deadline. Mr. Gibson said the government is serious about ensuring that all Bahamians have access to healthcare. Last week, State Minister for Finance Michael Halkitis announced in […]

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Despite police officials beefing up their presence in crime hotspots throughout the capital by sending more of their men on the streets, National Security Minister Dr. Bernard Nottage admitted Friday that there are some crimes that just will slip through the cracks and there is nothing authorities can do about it. Love 97 radio talk […]

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The China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) on Thursday joined efforts with the government to provide relief supplies for more than 100 Abaco residents who were left homeless following a massive fire at one of the island’s shantytown communities.   Staff members were mobilised to shop and deliver the necessary items to officials as a part of […]

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Minister of Social Services Melanie Griffin is calling on the country to pull together to fight the number of child abuse cases which she said is ‘alarming’. Police statistics indicate that over a 13-year period, 2, 746 children under the age of 16-years have been molested. “It’s an appalling situation and an appalling figure over […]

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Bahamian leaders have joined the growing number of people from around the world to condemn the abduction of more than 200 girls in Nigeria and to call for their safe return. Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell on Saturday said The Bahamas government joins with the world in demanding the return of the 200 […]

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Bahamas National Trust park wardens recently joined an international research team to learn more about the rare and endangered Bahamian Rock Iguana. BNT park wardens Shenica Campbell, the new park warden in Nassau and Grand Bahama Deputy Park Warden Ellsworth Weir, participated in the research expedition organised by the Shedd Aquarium for a week-long research […]

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There are no improprieties in the government’s acquisition of 17 acres of land in Central Eleuthera where the government intends to construct a hospital, said State Minister for Legal Affairs Damien Gomez yesterday. Mr. Gomez spoke to the Journal outside the House of Assembly where he responded to a number of concerns expressed by Montagu […]

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