The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Fred Mitchell yesterday called for the resignation of Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) Director Bennet Minnis after an audio recording spewing defamatory comments towards members of the party made its rounds on social media.  In his statement, Mr. Mitchell identified Mr. Minnis as the speaker in the viral voice note, […]

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An alleged serial burglar limped into a courtroom this past Friday accused of stealing $12,460 worth of goods from three separate homes on West Bay Street. Twenty-six-year-old Bradley Strachan stood before Magistrate Samuel Mckinney facing six counts of burglary, one count each of stealing and receiving. It is alleged that between 10 p.m. on June […]

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Nygard’s Golden Jubilee Review It’s not an everyday occurrence to discover an individual who has pulled himself up by his bootstraps to achieve phenomenal success with a business that’s still breaking barriers, still achieving firsts, and still innovating fifty years later. What does it take? How did he achieve it all? And how can we […]

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The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture made it clear yesterday that the Bahamas Aquatics Federation (BAF), which represents the Bahamas Water Polo Team, didn’t request additional funding from the government to extend travel expenses while the team competed at the CCCAN Championships in Barbados. The ministry responded to the issue after reports circulated on […]

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Speaker of the House of Assembly Halson Moultrie criticized the gaming industry, as he believes the industry is a major impediment to national development and produced a mindset of success without process. In the House of Assembly on Thursday, he explained that legalizing the Criminal Act in 2014 doesn’t change the mindset of criminals. “We […]

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Former Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe said the tax regime that is set to be imposed on the gaming industry is a penalty tax.  The government’s reasoning behind taxing this industry was to help create revenue for the country. To that, Mr. Wilchombe questioned why not increase taxation for casino operators whose taxes, he said, […]

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The Ministry of Finance announced on Wednesday that the Department of Inland Revenue (DIR) has full responsibility for all tax matters governing realty transactions, now that amendments to the Stamp Act and Value Added Tax Act have taken effect.  Last month, the government announced that realty transactions would no longer attract stamp tax.  Instead, they […]

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Two babies get to share their birthday with the nation as the Princess Margaret Hospital yesterday awarded the first boy and girl born on Independence Day.  The babies were welcomed by the Cookie Collection, a non-profit organization founded by the hospital’s board of directors’ member Sharon Johnson.  Mrs. Johnson said she’s been doing this for […]

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Police are investigating a stabbing incident that occurred on July 10, which left a man dead and another man detained in hospital.  According to police, shortly after 9 p.m., two men were in the parking lot of a business establishment on East Street South and Cox Way, when they got into an altercation, which escalated, […]

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The Free National Movement (FNM) called Opposition Leader Philip Davis a ‘hypocrite’ following his comments, made last week, on the ShotSpotter Technology.  Mr. Davis also labelled the technology as a bad investment by the government.   He added that ShotSpotters did nothing to prevent those 14 individuals from being shot in Montel Heights earlier this […]

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