The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

Life as it is experienced at street-corner level in today’s highly urban-Bahamas conjures up a medley of competing images. At one extreme, there is that widely held assumption that daily life in most of our heartland communities is all about crime, hustling and other such acts of deviance. At another remove, there is that other […]

Read the full story

There is no calumny so sorry and so very wrong as those so-called ‘explanations’ that would have this society’s victims blame themselves or cruel fate for the ills and wrongs they experience day in and day out. Indeed, there are times in life when people who benefit directly from other people’s addictions; who make big […]

Read the full story

Despite the fact that chronic non-communicable diseases are costing the Bahamian people so very much, it remains a sad fact of life that precious little is being done to counteract the damage done. It is also sadder yet that we know that such diseases can be fought and can be prevented if only people were […]

Read the full story

This weekend past, we met and spoke to a number of young men living and working in one of our now-historic heart land communities located in that area of this town known as Over-The-Hill. The cruel fact of the matter is that Over-The-Hill remains scarred and blighted not only by its slave and colonial past; […]

Read the full story

An expectant throng of Bahamians awaits that long-anticipated moment when this nation’s former Leader the Right Honourable Hubert Ingraham makes good on his promise to resign his seat in the House of Assembly. Today must be a bitter-sweet one for a man who has served so long and so well. As in the case of […]

Read the full story

As we move through some of our heartland areas – whether by day or by night and whether on foot or by car – we are bombarded by evidence that tells us that a new species of community is being birthed – a type where bands of feral youth do what they must in order […]

Read the full story

Now that the deed is done, we congratulate Rev. Cynthia “Mother” Pratt and the Hon. Algernon S. Allen as they take up their roles as Co-Chairmen of the Urban Renewal Commission. We wish both of these fine citizens well as they embark on this aspect of their life’s work on behalf of the Bahamian people. […]

Read the full story

That this nation’s Minister of National Security has his hands full is clear to all to see; and [evidently] Dr. Bernard J. Nottage must also know by now that things are never as they seem in today’s crime-ridden Bahamas. Here we today insist that there is a clutch of matters that cry out for the […]

Read the full story

The current government should by now have announced the names of the men and women who would head-up this or that law-mandated Corporation or Board. Now at the midpoint of the first 100 days, Prime Minister Perry Christie has yet to appoint Chairmen to head the Boards of three important Public Corporations: The Bahamas Electricity […]

Read the full story

“…Praise God; justice has been served…” There it goes: With these poignant words strewn among very many others quite like this heart-cry a grieving Bahamian grand-mother and obviously a praying woman [Veronica Bastian] thanked God when she heard that Donovan Gardiner who had killed her grandson [Desmond Key] would spend the next decade behind bars. […]

Read the full story