The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

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 […]

Read the full story

Revelations now coming to light suggest that funds belonging to the Bahamian people [and which were held in trust] have been subject to any number of brazen uses. Whether any of this amounts to criminal wrongdoing is anybody’s guess. But for sure, it is clearly a very sad fact of life that this scandal reveals […]

Read the full story

If ever there was a time when the attentive public is desirous of ‘swift” justice that time is surely now as they get both whiff and smell of some of the corruption-tinged allegations now swirling around the head of this or that person previously working for the National Insurance Board. Today we re-new our call […]

Read the full story

The time is nigh for the current administration to be up and doing with implementing a raft of changes to the Penal Code that would end with rules in place that give magistrates wide latitude in the imposition of fines for any number of life-style related ‘crimes. Such a move would go a long way […]

Read the full story

For as long as we can remember, employers and a host of other interested parties have bemoaned the parlous condition of this nation’s educational systems. We have on occasion lamented the fact that there is a major disconnect in our country as regards schooling and education. As things now stand, we are – as a […]

Read the full story

For quite a while now, the Bahamian people have been obliged to look deeply at not only what is happening world-wide, but have been obliged to understand that what they had blithely described as ‘development’ was no such thing. Step by step, inch by dread inch, more and more Bahamians have been awakened to the […]

Read the full story

As one International Press Institute (IPI) official so ruefully laments: – “…We find it particularly appalling that an island nation as vibrant as the Bahamas, which so fiercely cherishes independence and maintains close ties to the United States and the United Nations, condones the jailing of journalists and disregards the people’s right to know…” Like […]

Read the full story

That matter concerning who did what, who decided who should get what and that matter which concerns money in the care of the National Insurance Board is one that should be decided now. The Hon. Shane Gibson is himself clear enough in his mind as to what should be done. Like us he seems to […]

Read the full story

Something wonderful is now taking place in today’s Bahamas. That something-wonderful-thing has to do with how it now arises that there are so very many Bahamians [especially women] who are braving the elements, brooking no tear and saying that they are sick and tired of the abuse being meted out to some of their children […]

Read the full story

The current administration should be up and doing with bringing to parliament amendments to the statute laws which would guarantee Bahamians rights to gambling, gaming and all other such activities allowed tourists. In this regard, we insist that the so-called ‘debate’ concerning the numbers business had as much to do with righteousness, as it clearly […]

Read the full story