30 May 2025
BY GERRINO SAUNDERSJournal Staff Writer If you were hoping to get a student visa for the United States, you’re going to haveto wait for a while. How long is uncertain. On Tuesday, U.S. President DonaldTrump’s Administration ordered U.S. Embassies around the world to stopscheduling appointments for student visas as it prepares to expand social mediavetting […]
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30 May 2025
As The Bahamas celebrates another Randol Fawkes Labour Day with low levels of unemployment, Bahamians should take notice of the relative calm in the ranks of the Trade Union movement in the country. While there are grievances and unresolved issues, to be sure, it is commendable that the Minister of Labour and the Public Service, […]
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30 May 2025
The Bahamas has lost roughly twelve hundred young black men in the last ten years due to black-on-black violence. It is that type of crime through violence, or when a homicide occurs often at the point of a gun or a knife, when one black man kills another of the same colour. There is a […]
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30 May 2025
By Julian Reid Bahama Journal Editor Prime Minister Philip Davis said an $827 million deal to develop the New Grand Lucayan Resort that was executed in Freeport, Grand Bahama yesterday “will long be remembered as pivotal for the people of Grand Bahama.” “It’s time to turn the page on hardship, to leave heartbreak behind. It’s […]
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30 May 2025
By Gerrino J. SaundersBahama Journal News Editor The government is proud of the work it has done that has resulted in The Bahamasbeing removed from the European and French financial services blacklist for noncooperative countries.In its most recent sitting Members of Parliament debated and passed acompendium of nine financial service related bills the government hopes […]
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30 May 2025
By Gerrino J. SaundersBahama Journal News Editor The United States is one of our closest neighbors and by far the most powerful, andthere is no secret that they have been at odds with both China and Cuba fordecades, and now The Bahamas seems to be caught in the middle, something thegovernment says it wants no […]
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30 May 2025
By Gerrino J. SaundersBahama Journal News Editor There will be no Free National Movement (FNM) victory in the 2026 generalelections if the party does not unify itself, according to former FNM leader andPrime Minister Hubert Ingraham.During his tribute to the late John Henry Bostwick at the memorial held at theFNM headquarters Mr. Ingraham encouraged members […]
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30 May 2025
We live in a world of duplicitous politicians and some who have the audacity to lecture where they do not have the moral authority to do so. This week the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited seven Prime Ministers of Caribbean Countries to the State Department, including Prime Minister Philip Davis of The […]
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30 May 2025
By Gerrino J. Saunders Bahama Journal News Editor With ruthless gangs continuing to wreak havoc in Haiti the situation remains a severe threat to regional security on any number of levels including gang members infiltrating Caribbean countries trying to escape retaliation or exact revenge killings, this in addition to large numbers of Haitian citizens risking […]
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30 May 2025
As Bahamians begin to think of general elections which must be held by October next year, and as political parties seek out suitable candidates, the demands grow in the various constituencies for government services. In addition, there are requests which abound for personal political favours. So a tremendous amount of pressure comes to bear on […]
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