The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

The man police believe is responsible for last month’s murder of 33-year-old Jermaine Russell alias ‘Timer’ was arraigned yesterday in the Magistrate’s Court. Twenty-seven-year-old Mark Augustine appeared in Court Number 11 before Magistrate Sabu Swain to answer to the murder charge. Russell was shot several times shortly after 3:00 a.m. on July 27 through Apple […]

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Staff from the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism offices around the world underwent three weeks of intense training to complete a Sales and Marketing Certificate Programme designed especially for the ministry in conjunction with Nova Southeastern University. The programme was created to achieve Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe’s vision for tourism employees; to be prepared to […]

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Only months after the government regained two per cent of its shares in the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) from Cable and Wireless (CWC), Prime Minister Perry Christie announced that the government was able to secure an additional two per cent worth in shares from CWC. Prime Minister Perry Christie briefly made the announcement during the […]

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Homicide detectives found themselves scrambling from one bloody scene to the next after a spree of shootings between Sunday night and Monday morning claimed the lives four people within a matter of hours, prompting authorities to again urge Bahamians to stop taking matters into their own hands. In the most recent incident, it was around […]

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Former Free National Movement (FNM) Senator Roston H. Miller passed away on Saturday in the United States, his family has announced. Miller was the first Free PLP candidate to run in an election after the “Dissident Eight” left the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in 1970 and formed the Free Progressive Liberal Party. He ran unsuccessfully […]

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President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Obie Ferguson recently foreshadowed the end of his union’s major labour rival – The Bahamas Public Services Union (BPSU) and noted that the once largest labour representative has lost focus of its primary agenda. Mr. Ferguson who appeared Sunday as a guest on Jones and Company, said in […]

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The 25-year-old man who police said is the victim of suicide after he was found hanging on Saturday has been identified as Kelvin Strachan of Eden Street. According to reports Strachan’s lifeless body was found around 2:30 a.m. Saturday hanging by a cord tied to a tree at Baldwin Avenue off Farrington Road. Reports indicate […]

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Despite a push from the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organisations (CANTO) to it member states to reduce tariffs on smart phones, Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) CEO Leon Williams advised yesterday that this reduction is unlikely to happen here in The Bahamas until there is a major tax reform. The reason, Mr. Williams said, is […]

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The construction industry performed well in the first quarter of 2014, according to the Central Bank’s latest Quarterly Economic Review. “Construction sector activity continued to be dominated by large-scale foreign investment projects in the hotel sector, as the government’s public sector infrastructure programme tapered,” the report said. “Data from domestic banks, insurance companies and the […]

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A man was left nursing serious wounds after being shot in broad daylight on Wednesday. According to reports, the victim was sitting in front of his Nicholl’s Court, Yellow Elder Gardens Home shortly before 4:00 p.m. Wednesday when the occupants of a white four door Honda Civic pulled up and fired several shots before speeding […]

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