The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

The students of C.C. Sweeting Senior High School held a Road to Peace Rally at the school this past Friday. The Rotary Club of Nassau started Road to Peace, a peer mediation training program four years ago. Rotary Road to Peace has been, for the past year, been training 10 teen mediators at the school […]

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Rights Bahamas yesterday announced that it has been granted a hearing  before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to shine light on the abuse  of migrants in the Bahamas. The hearing will take place in Kingston, Jamaica on May 10th this year.  It said  Special emphasis was placed on the new immigration policy launched in […]

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A Corrections Officer is now behind bars, 36-year- old Bernard Hinsey awaiting trial  after  being arrested last week in connection with  drugs.  He was searched and  allegedly  found  with six packages of marijuana taped to his body. The drugs amounted to one pound and 11 ounces;  carrying a street value of $1,000. Deputy  Chief  Magistrate […]

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Health Minister Dr. Duane Sands  has confirmed that the Public Hospitals Authority’s (PHA) institutions were experiencing a cyber attack last week. In a release last week, the PHA advised the general public of the attack as of Saturday March 30th.  The disruption,  said the Authority, is primarily centered on the internal email system, resulting in […]

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President of the Water and Sewerage Management Union, Ednell Rolle has  expressed grave concern, particularly about the privacy of employees as union members allege that they are secretly being recorded. Mr. Rolle is now calling for an investigation into these allegations. However, he told reporters that the Executive Chairman of the Water and Sewerage Corporation, […]

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The  Water and Sewage Corporation is  set to take legal action against BUSAWU President Dwayne Woods for his defamatory comments against Executive Chairman Adrian Gibson. Mr. Gibson said,“myself and the General Manager have instructed Mr. Bethel to take out suit  against Mr. Woods for defamation of character,  given his statements that are farfetched, entirely untrue […]

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Irate Water and Sewerage workers last night upped the ante on their industrial action, engaging in what the Corporation’s Executive Chairman Adrian Gibson castigated as sabotage. As Mr. Gibson explained in the House of Assembly  yesterday  morning, following Tuesday’s “illegal strike action” there was a shutdown of water supply throughout New Providence. “Throughout the night, […]

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Despite the threat of dismissal of members of the  Bahamas Utilities Services and Allied Workers Union (BUSAWU)  for  participating in what Water and Sewerage Chairman calls an “illegal strike”, BUSAWU’S President Dwayne Woods insists that what its members are doing is not a strike.  However the water supply in several areas of New Providence was […]

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 Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis says  the government will add $100,000 to the new budget for the construction of a facility for children with Autism in the future. April is being recognized as Autism Awareness Month and a group from REACH  (Resources and Education for Autism and Related Challenges) were special guests during yesterday’s sitting […]

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Finance Minister Peter Turnquest yesterday announced in the House of Assembly that The Securities Commission of The Bahamas completed the cryptocurrency draft legislation for public consultation.  This, he said, gives The Bahamas “a clear, competitive advantage with respect to digital asset solutions as financial technologies continue to drive growth in the financial services sector”.  He […]

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