The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

DESTINY JOHNSONJournal Staff Writer Just three weeks following the proroguing of parliament, Prime Minister Philip Davis announcedmajor changes in the Davis administration.During his national address on Sunday evening, he announced new portfolios as Cabinet wasreshuffled.He said the goal in shifting Cabinet ministers is to strengthen policy execution with freshperspectives.He began with promoting Jomo Campbell to […]

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The desecration of Saint Cecilia’s Catholic Church in Coconut Grove  has sent shock waves throughout  the Bahamas.  Whoever is responsible for this dastardly act, in our opinion,  is either possessed with legions of demons or is extremely mentally ill.  There is another opinion held, which is that the level of deviance in the country among […]

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We  applaud the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for issuing a statement condemning  the recent carnage in the United States of America  in which  some nine  persons were killed in  a popular nightlife district  in Dayton, Ohio and  22 killed in a shopping mall in  El Paso, Texas. The level of violence in America should be […]

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Throughout the Caribbean  Newspaper Editorials are commenting on the meeting between  U.S. President Donald Trump and five  Caribbean leaders. The meeting really came about due to the support of these countries, including the Bahamas, of the  initiative of the American government to support  the installation of the Opposition leader in Venezuela to lead that south […]

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In the book The Growth of the Modern West Indies, the author  Gordon K. Lewis wrote: “ From the earliest beginnings after 1620,  the Bahamian development  departed radically from those of the islands properly West Indian. The productive system, after a false start in tobacco growing, was essentially mercantile. The genesis of the New Providence […]

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The New Year 2019 started with a shooting incident where a young man was shot in the head.  Mercifully, he  is still alive.   In a matter  of days,  we believe,  we will start counting the  dead bodies again of young people  who are being slaughtered on our streets and in  our heartland communities. Sadly, […]

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The dread story is always the same: —–Police officers in fear of their lives; police officers [due to the power inherent in said fair] return fire; a man is felled and as a direct consequence of said return fire, the man dies! And thus on this blessed Monday, July 23rd. 2018, we report that: —A […]

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We insist that –as a people united in service and love- we should be up and doing far more for ourselves; with especial attention given to the food we consume. Evidently, the time is nigh and now for those who lead to provide assistance to each and every Bahamian interested in pioneering this kind of […]

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Human rights do matter; and so does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Clearly, then, the right to life should be considered and described as the world’s number one right thing owed by every human person; regardless of gender, age, social condition, faith, creed, race or disability. This is why – and here closer to […]

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A very recent IDB study confirms something most Bahamians already know:- we have managed – by crass neglect -to nix this nation’s development; and so, we now learn that the Inter-American Development Bank has found that The Bahamas is now wallowing in a situation where youth unemployment is perniciously and persistently high and where there […]

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