The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

Minister of Social Services Frankie Campbell and Parliamentary Secretary Michael Foulkes announced on Thursday that they are on their third draft of a bill to protect senior citizens’ rights. In his remarks at the Department of Social Services’ Elder Abuse Awareness Symposium, Minister Campbell admitted that he witnessed first-hand dealing with elder abuse while working […]

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The Royal Bahamas Police warned the public to be careful on the road as public schools reopen on September 2. At a press conference on Thursday at the Police Headquarters, the police listed a number of traffic offenses they will be monitoring on the first day of school and all divisions of the force will […]

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The Ministry of Finance and Bahamas Customs on Wednesday held another press conference reminding the public of the implementation of Click2Clear on September 1. The portal has already been implemented in phases and the next phase is for businesses to register to collect any items from the New Providence seaport as of September 1, 2019. […]

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The Department of Meteorology warned on Wednesday that Hurricane Dorian is making a turn towards the Northwest Bahamas after just missing the southern islands.   The department has been tracking the storm’s path and said the storm will affect mostly North Eleuthera, Abaco and Grand Bahama.  On Wednesday morning the alert for Southeast Bahamas was […]

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The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed an appeal to set aside the judgement of acquittal on the no case to answer submission for former Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Senator Frank Smith’s extortion and bribery case.  The grounds of appeal were that the “learned magistrate took extraneous matters into consideration, evidence was wrongly rejected or inadmissible […]

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Opposition Leader Philip Davis yesterday called for the government “to go” following the Court of Appeal’s decision to dismiss the Crown’s appeal against former Progressive Liberal Party Senator Frank Smith.  He also renewed the call for the ministers of health and national security to resign for their involvement in the case. Mr. Davis expressed that […]

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Although the Supreme Court granted an injunction ordering striking junior doctors to return to work, the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) announced yesterday that members of the Bahamas Doctors Union (BDU) decided to continue with their industrial action. “As a result, services at the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH), Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre (SRC), Rand Memorial Hospital and […]

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Suicide in the country is a major concern for the Ministry of Health, after the STEPS Survey 2019, revealed that 6.3 percent of Bahamians have considered suicide.  Revealing the preliminary results of that survey, Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands, on Tuesday, said that percentage accounted for 17,000 Bahamians.  “In this study that 6.3 percent […]

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Under Deportation Order, 112 Haitian nationals were deported to Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday. A joint team of law enforcement officers accompanied the Haitian nationals as they departed the Lynden Pindling International Airport at 7:30 a.m. onboard a Bahamasair flight. The group of Haitian nationals included 93 males and 19 females.  The exercise was led by […]

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Eight Haitian nationals were rescued during a combined effort by members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and OPBAT on Wednesday morning after their vessel ran aground in the southern Bahamas. The 57-feet wooden cargo freighter ‘Shamu Too’ was enoute to Haiti when the vessel experienced mechanical failure. As a result, it ran aground near […]

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