The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

Even as some of this nation’s elite classes now bemoan the fact that things are not as good as they once were, there are very many other Bahamians who are – for the first time in their lives – being introduced to poverty’s harsh lash. There are those among us who could be categorized as […]

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Very many of the men and women who run things in this country are – relatively speaking – some of this land’s most distinguished, lettered and publicly unknown folks. They owe their power to the positions they hold in this nation’s permanent and pensionable establishment. Unlike politicians who come and go, these men and women […]

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Having forgotten that there was once a time when Bahamians did own thriving businesses Over-The-Hill, today’s bewildered Bahamian is now convinced that no new thing can ever again come out of these heart-land communities. Indeed, one of the more unfortunate facts of life in today’s Bahamas has to do with what happens to a people […]

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We are collectively in need of far more than laws, policies and programs and personnel which are only concerned with tinkering here or tinkering there; and whose vision is limited to the day to day work of merely keeping things from dropping to pieces. It is also quite evident, that we live in a culture […]

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Confusion unleashed routinely breeds mistakes; and – confusion-tinged motivation can also lead to hurt and death on either side of any socially constructed divide. One of the sadder facts of our shared social life in today’s Bahamas has to do with that vast difference which separates rich from poor; and which also differentiates the working […]

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For as long as we can remember, Bahamians have been waiting and waiting for this or that foreign investor to come to their rescue; provide them with jobs and in the meantime, reap for themselves huge profits. This model of development takes it for granted that this is the best way of developing this country. […]

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We shall – in short order – celebrate this fledgling nation’s fortieth Independence anniversary. And so, we are today conveniently urged to remember that this nation of ours did some four decades ago have leaders who did dream that this nation of ours would or could be under-girded by a fervent desire for the building […]

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As we look in on some of the debate between Democrats and Republicans in the United States, we are constrained to point out the obvious; similar debates are also taking place in our country and around the world. The core of the problem being addressed relates to competing philosophies of both government, economics and about […]

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Some of this nation’s youth – through no fault of their own – are fated to be failed by any number of this nation’s social institutions inclusive of both Church and State. Most of us seem to have forgotten that there was once a time when our people [fathers, mothers and other extended family] did […]

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Today we reference yesterday’s expected remembrance services which took place in the United States to mark the eleventh anniversary of that day in September 11, 2001 when enemies of the Union killed 3000 innocent men and women in New York. Not only do we take note of that event; but also of events that were […]

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