The Bahamas Journal – Jones Communications Network

Fifty-one-year-old Stephen Serrette was granted $10,000 bail from Supreme Court Justice Vera Watkins on Tuesday. According to court dockets, Serette had sexual intercourse with an 11-year-old that is related to him. Police also say that between 2011 and 2012, Serrette had sexual intercourse with an eight-year-old boy, who is also related to him. In addition, [...]

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Melvin Maycock Sr. along with his son Melvin Jr. and several others will have to wait a bit longer before their extradition hearing gets underway. Prosecutors in the southern district of Florida requested that the 14 men be extradited to the United States to answer several drug charges there. The Bahama Journal understands that request [...]

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Homicide detectives were busy over the weekend and holiday as they had two homicides on their hands which pushed the murder count to 55 for the year. In the latest incident, according to reports, shortly before 1:00 a.m. Sunday, a man was found through Wulff Road, west of Jerome Avenue with multiple times stab wounds [...]

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The first Sir Randol Fawkes Labour Day Parade has been dubbed a success by various union leaders and some of Sir Randol’s family. Sir Randol’s youngest son, David, told the Bahama Journal on Friday that he was pleased by how many people turned up to the parade in support of his father. “If daddy was [...]

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While the decision was not a unanimous one, former police constable Toni Sweeting has once again been denied bail a month after she was arraigned on drug possession charges. Court of Appeal President, Anita Allen told the 27-year-old mother of one that she would not be getting bail for several reasons. Her reasons, supported by [...]

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A pilot will have to remain in prison a few more weeks before having his appeal heard by the appellate court. Forty-eight-year-old Patrick Pyfrom, along with another man, was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of importation of dangerous drugs, conspiracy to import dangerous drugs, possession of dangerous drugs with intent [...]

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Police have arrested a third person in connection with the death of 42-year-old Javon Glinton. Officers from the Central Detective Unit (CDU) arrested the 28-year-old man of Cordeaux Avenue around 5:14 Sunday morning. According to reports, around 9:44 p.m. on Wednesday, Glinton – a resident of Cordeaux Avenue was standing in front of a home [...]

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The homicide count got closer to 50 Saturday after homicide detectives responded to two separate incidents which resulted in the death of three people. This takes the homicide for last week alone to eight. In the first incident, two people were found burnt beyond recognition inside a vehicle off Carmichael Road. According to reports, around [...]

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Nurses working in the Trauma Room at the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) are being commended for their quick response to a small electrical fire that was isolated to an electrical socket in the hospital’s trauma room on Friday. According to a press release sent out by the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA), the fire, which occurred [...]

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There are over 4,000 mortgages in arrears over 90 days in the banking system, according to Chairman of the Clearing Banks Association (CBA), Nathaniel Beneby. Mr. Beneby told The Bahama Journal that as of March 31, those arrears totaled over $500 million across all of the CBA banks, including the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), [...]

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