The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar last week summed up Thursday’s meeting with Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union executives as a good one; a good mechanism for him to hear first-hand the concerns. “They seem very passionate, they seem very resolute, but they also seem to understand that this is a business and the business […]

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The leader of The Global United Fellowship and Senior Pastor of Mount Tabor Church, Bishop Neil C. Ellis says “the middle class in the Bahamas is being eliminated.”  Appearing on the JCN Radio and Television show  Jones and Company yesterday, he said “the timing of the increase of Value Added Tax (VAT) was not good. […]

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If Silver Gates appears to be a bit more crowded this summer, it is the deliberate commitment and efforts of fifteen Bahamian companies who completed the park in a record time of three months. Prime Minister, Dr. The Hon. Hubert Minnis, along with The Hon. Desmond Bannister, Cabinet Members, government officials, residents of Silver Gates […]

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It’s not an everyday occurrence to discover an individual who has pulled himself up by his bootstraps to achieve phenomenal success with a business that’s still breaking barriers, still achieving firsts, and still innovating fifty years later. What does it take? How did he achieve it all? And how can we achieve similar successes? That’s […]

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The  Bahamas  remains at Tier 1 on this year’s U.S Trafficking  In Persons report (TIP) released yesterday. This happened after making serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period.  Those efforts , noted the report, includes “passing a national action plan, increasing funding for victim assistance and anti-trafficking prevention, elevating  national anti-trafficking planning to the […]

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Bridges, roads, buildings and airports throughout The Bahamas are among the 260 infrastructure projects that the Ministry of Public Works has on its schedule for the year.  The Hon. Desmond Bannister, Minister, highlighted some of them during his recent contribution to the 2019-2020 Budget Debate in the House of Assembly. Plans are in the making […]

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Former Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell is of the view that The Bahamas government should take a stronger stance in the investigation into the deaths Alrae Ramsey  and Blair John –the two Bahamians found dead in Turin, Italy earlier this month. “The spokesman for The Bahamas government should have said in  a position like this,  […]

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With just a few weeks left in this fiscal year, the government  maintains that they will meet their deficit target by the end of the year. However, on the expenditure side, Finance Minister Peter Turnquest said the government  is  anticipating that they will come some $400 million below the original revenue target. “We’ve been very […]

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Shadow Minister for Health Senator Dr. Michael Darville yesterday strongly refuted allegations regarding the Princess Margaret Hospital’s Children’s Ward repairs.  The ward received roof damage after Hurricane Matthew barreled through New Providence in 2016.  During his wrap up to the 2019/2020 budget debate in the House Of Assembly this past Wednesday Prime Minister Dr. Hubert […]

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Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis yesterday announced in the House of Assembly that the government is making efforts in ensure that all Bahamians have access to and the opportunity to own land.  He added that efforts are ongoing with respect to the regularization of crown land leases and grants.  In fact, he said, the Land […]

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