The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

More than a year after her 20 year sentence murder conviction, the Court of Appeal has granted Donna Vasyli a retrial. The Australian native was found responsible for the March 2015 murder of her husband, podiatrist Philip Vasyli. Appearing yesterday morning before Court of Appeal President Dame Anita Allen, Justices Stephen Isaacs and Maureen Crane-Scott, […]

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The Government of The Bahamas has begun piloting free Wi-Fi zones at certain parks in the Fox Hill, Gambier Village and Bain and Grants Town communities.   The Free Wi-Fi zones will allow residents of those areas – particularly school-aged children — access to the worldwide web.  Controls have been implemented to block certain content. […]

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Repairs at the Rand Memorial Hospital will cost over $100,000 this according to Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands. This in large part to remediation, temporary housing, overtime and repairs after patients and staff were evacuated from the Rand Memorial Hospital on Friday as a result of a fire in the kitchen. According to the […]

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Former Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Senator Frank Smith is expected back in the Magistrate’s Court today following his adjourned arraignment. Mr. Smith appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon only to find out that he would spend another night behind bars. This was due to the prosecution not being ready to proceed. As part of […]

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Forty-one-year-old Sherran Burrows was yesterday charged in the Magistrate’s Court on 12 counts of child pornography. Appearing before Chief Magistrate Joyanne Ferguson-Pratt, Burrows, who told the magistrate that his attorney was out of town, faced five of possession of video recordings of an underaged girl or what appeared to be an underaged girl and seven […]

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Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis said his only concern regarding the Baha Mar project is that the deadline for its complete opening is met in late October, in an effort to boost the economy and afford thousands of Bahamians jobs. These sentiments came immediately after Dr. Minnis, along with the members of his Cabinet, toured […]

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It is the kind of news no one wants to hear, the kind of news an inconsolable defence force officer had to process yesterday after a shooting on Quarry Mission Road left one man dead and another man hospitalized in critical condition. Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Stephen Dean told reporters at yesterday’s murder scene that […]

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The Government of The Bahamas will assist wherever possible to ensure that the opportunities that lay within the shipping industry at the global level are taken advantage of.   Addressing members of the media following a tour of the LJM Maritime Academy on Monday, Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis said the global shipping industry is a […]

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Sixty-four Haitian migrants were apprehended in the southern Bahamas during a joint exercise by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and the Department of Immigration. Shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, a Haitian sloop arrived offshore at Ragged Island. Defence Force and immigration officials along with community members engaged in a joint exercise to take into […]

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An overflowing St. Agnes Anglican Church listened intently last Friday morning as a shaken up Brian Bernard Nottage, son of the late Dr. Bernard Johnathan Nottage reminisced on the life of his father, a husband, political figure, athlete and hero. At times choked with emotion, young Nottage admitted that although his father was not always […]

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