The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

The 2019 New Year’s Day Junkanoo Parade has officially come to a close and a Cabinet Minister  is appealing to corporate sponsors to continue supporting one of the country’s biggest events.  Social Services Minister, Frankie Campbell  said government funding is limited, which is why the extra funding is needed.  “I’m impressed with the sacrifice made […]

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The owners of Abaco Neem, Nicholas  and Daphne Miaoulis recently returned from the first annual “World Neem Organization” (WNO) summit and educational trip to Bangalore, India, after impressing  researchers.  At the summit, 21 companies were in attendance from 7 countries outside of India — The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Kenya, Australia, Canada, Paraguay and Portugal.  The  use […]

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Cases of swine flu in  the Bahamas  have  tourism officials in damage control mode. Tourism Director General, Joy Jibrilu, told reporters last  Friday  that they are  monitoring the situation. “We  actively  monitor whenever there’s an outbreak. “I mean if you think about it, it was chikungunya, it was zika, it’s always something that you have […]

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Tourism officials said 2018 has been a very good year for the country as air, sea, and stop over visitor arrivals continue to increase.  Tourism Minister, Dionosio D’Aguilar last Friday gave members of the press an update on the state of the tourism industry for the year ending 2018. The minister acknowledged what he called […]

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Minister of National Security Marvin Dames says  The  Sexual  Offender’s registry is on  schedule  for the first quarter of 2019.  He  said  his ministry is  looking at the regulations for the registry and hopes to take this before cabinet in January. The  Minister pledged back in March of last year  that this would be a […]

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Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) officers stationed at South Beach  Pools apprehend several Haitian nationals attempting to make it to shore in waters east of the area around 1 a.m. yesterday.   Upon further investigation by RBDF, police, and immigration personnel, discovered a wooden sloop in shallow waters about a quarter-mile off shore.  An expanded search of the coastal […]

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The Chairman of Save The Bays, Joseph Darville says, “with much consternation, we are learning that an EIA for the proposed Oban Industries has been completed, but will not at this time be made public for scrutiny.  This, in itself sounds most fishy. Even an idiot, without the least understanding about our marine ecosystems, would […]

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The management of Jones Communications Network has  chosen two clergymen as  the recipients  of the annual Person of The Year Award for  2018. The prestigious award goes jointly to two outstanding Bahamian religious leaders who have been elected to international positions, the Reverend Doctor Timothy Stewart and Doctor  Leonard Johnson. Rev. Dr. Stewart has been […]

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A Canadian man traveling to The Bahamas  from London, was remanded to the Bahamas Department of Corrects for alleged drug possession.  Reginald Merritt’s intended stay in the Bahamas was interrupted  after he was arrested  for possession of dangerous drugs at the Lynden Pindling International Airport last Thursday. Merritt was charged before the Magistrate’s Court on […]

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The New Year 2019 started with a shooting incident where a young man was shot in the head.  Mercifully, he  is still alive.   In a matter  of days,  we believe,  we will start counting the  dead bodies again of young people  who are being slaughtered on our streets and in  our heartland communities. Sadly, […]

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