The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

It’s been nearly two months since the Bahamas Public Services Union (BPSU) and the government came to the table to negotiate a new industrial agreement and according to Union President Kimsley Ferguson, the union hasn’t heard anything from the government on the financial aspects of that deal. Take for instance, workers at the Princess Margret […]

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For the first time, the All Bahamas Merit scholars recognized two students at the scholarship’s 25th awards ceremony at Government House on last Thursday. Mahlia Neely, a graduate of Queen’s College High School, and Dehron Smith, a graduate of Nassau Christian Academy, were awarded $140,000 to attend college abroad.  Neely and Smith expressed happiness for […]

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On Saturday, a private aircraft en route from Pompano Beach, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas made an emergency landing at the Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA). According to LPIA officials, the incident happened around 4:32 p.m.  Two persons were onboard the Challenger 60 aircraft, one American and one Bahamian. There were no injuries reported. Immediately upon […]

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Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes, Allied Workers Union negotiator Obie Ferguson and Morton Salt Company executives met last Thursday to discuss the company’s industrial agreement, but concerns over salary increase made it difficult to consent on terms of the agreement. Ferguson, who spoke to Bahama Journal about the outcome of the meeting, said the parties […]

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The unemployment rate took a dive as more people are counted among the workforce, according to the Department of Statistics this past Friday.  Preliminary figures indicated that 4,330 persons were working at the time the most recent labour force survey was conducted in May 2018. Senior Statistician Cynpreanna Winters said, “Two of the three most […]

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As load shedding continues to intensify and Bahamians are finding it unbearable, Bahamas Power and Light CEO Whitney Heastie said the power plant cannot guarantee that load shedding will stop, as there are generators that are failing.  “The challenge we have is with an ageing fleet. Last night, we had four additional units that would […]

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Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Philip Davis wasted no time responding to Bahamas Power and Light’s (BPL) press conference as he believes the corporation failed Bahamians and they should be compensated for enduring the miserable load shedding crisis. “I think at the moment, we are facing a catastrophe where BPL is a failed corporation.  We […]

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Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) CEO Whitney Heastie admitted yesterday that while the company can improve its communication regarding load shedding, there are far more issues at hand as the company didn’t expect such high levels of load shedding this summer.   “It must be noted that the board appointed in 2017 and this current board […]

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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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Amnesty International yesterday followed suit with a number of countries by issuing a travel advisory calling for possible visitors to the United States to exercise extreme caution due to rampant gun violence. The London-based human rights organization reasoned that gun violence has become so prevalent in the U.S. and that amounts to a human rights […]

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