The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

The government is said to still be in consultations with officials of the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) to avoid the country being blacklisted as it seeks to regulate the web shop industry. Prime Minister Perry Christie told reporters Thursday that that he will not attempt to regularise the web shop industry unless he is certain […]

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Officials at The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) said the company will soon embark on a major system upgrade that is expected to cause glitches across the system. In a press statement issued Thursday, BTC officials said they are set to soon begin a cell optimisation exercise for improved network stabilisation in late July. “During this […]

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Imagine a place so serene, so exotic and so inviting that its welcome mat stretches for more than 40 acres, offering breath taking panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and its morning greeting is a warm kiss of freshly baked pastries. You’re there. This blissful seclusion is the newly built Ocean Dream Beach Resort located […]

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Chervita Khadine Campbell was voted in as the new Chief Councillor for the City of Freeport District Council on Monday and Nevar Lionel Smith, a 27-year-old radio personality from Mix 102.1 FM is the new deputy chief councillor. The nine-member Council was sworn into office, June 25, in the meeting room of the National Insurance […]

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Police officials reportedly shot an armed suspect yesterday but his accomplice was able to escape after officials foiled a mid afternoon home invasion in the Stapleton Gardens area. According to eye witnesses on the scene the man who was shot was outfitted with an ankle monitoring bracelet. It was just after 3:00 p.m. Wednesday when […]

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Members of the Free National Movement (FNM) on Wednesday claimed that the lights were cut off to all public schools in Grand Bahama after the government allegedly did not pay the bills. According to a press statement issued by FNM Member of Parliament for Central Grand Bahama and Shadow Minister of Public Works Neko Grant […]

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The Bahamas Medical Association recently announced that they have added 24 new Bahamian doctors to its 301-member body this past weekend. Some 24 Bahamian students were inducted as new doctors during the University of the West Indies School of Clinical Medicine and Research Awards ceremony on Sunday. The graduates were reminded by post graduate-education coordinator, […]

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Chevanese Sasha Gaye-Hall, the Jamaican national who is the first person to be tried and convicted for human trafficking in The Bahamas, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. During her sentencing before Senior Supreme Court Justice Jon Isaacs on Wednesday, Gaye-Hall was initially sentenced to 15 years at Her Majesty’s Prisons, but Justice […]

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Opposition Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis is calling on the Church to protect Bahamians against a tax policy that he is convinced with further burden them and remove the hope of a better life. Dr. Minnis was referring to the government’s proposed Value Added Tax (VAT) that will be introduced at a rate of 7.5 per […]

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Business vendors operating on Cabbage Beach at Paradise Island took to Rawson Square with placards and posters Wednesday morning and claimed that Senior Vice President of Public Relations at Atlantis Ed Fields is “violating the rights of local business owners in The Bahamas.” According to Monique Taylor, president of the Cabbage Beach Business Owners Association, […]

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