01 September 2023
By Keile CampbellJournal Staff Writer Uriah McPhee Primary School was expected to reopen on Thursday for the new school yearafter reopening was postponed because of issues with air conditioning and environmentalsanitation, according to Acting Director of Education Dominique McCartney-Russell.“It is expected, I haven’t gotten an update yet, but it is expected that school will open […]
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01 September 2023
BY DESTINY JOHNSONJournal Staff Writer As most children are back in the classroom, the Ministry of Social Services and UrbanDevelopment is continuing to ensure students are ready for the classroom.Minister of State for the Social Services Lisa Rahming said school assistance is a yearlycommitment for the ministry.“As we always do, you know, persons were given […]
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01 September 2023
By Licec BastianJournal Staff Writer A retired corrections officer was granted bail in the sum of $20,000 on Monday afterhis attorney Bjorn Ferguson made an emergency bail application to the SupremeCourt.Sixty-six-year-old Jeffrey Sherman was arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court after heallegedly shot his 62-year-old girlfriend Bridgette Ingraham during a domestic disputelast Thursday.According to police reports, […]
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01 September 2023
By Keile CampbellJournal Staff Writer Though the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, otherwise known as COP28, isa few months away, two of the top performing male and female meteorology trainees of theNiccolo P. Small Meteorology Cadet Programme discovered during the closing ceremony ofthe summer-long program that they will be joining the traveling party from […]
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01 September 2023
BY DESTINY JOHNSONJournal Staff Writer A new study from the University of The Bahamas (UB) has found that married women are morelikely than single women to have experienced non-consensual sexual intercourse.The peer reviewed research paper, led by Associate Professor Dr Niambi Hall Campbell-Dean, isentitled ‘In The Bahamas she must give it up: Sexual abuse of […]
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01 September 2023
BY DESTINY JOHNSONJournal Staff Writer The issue of abortion has been a hot button topic in the country following a 40-year-old motherbeing charged with aborting her 11-year-old daughter’s baby after the child was allegedly rapedby the mother’s 45-year-old boyfriend.Minister of Social Services Obie Wilchcombe weighed in on whether the government is mindedto changing the abortion […]
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01 September 2023
By Licec BasitanJournal Staff Writer During her annual back to school national address on Sunday evening, Education andTechnical and Vocational Training (MOETVT) Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin said“there is a lot of ground to cover and recover” in the 2023/2024 academic school yearand education officials do not intend to just go with the status quo.“Education is a […]
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01 September 2023
By Licec BastianJournal Staff Writer Parents of children with special needs will be happy to know that greater emphasiswill be placed on special education this academic school year, according to EducationMinister Glenys Hanna-Martin.As education officials embark on curriculum reform, which is central to the goals theministry seeks to accomplish, Minister Hanna-Martin said, “I am proud […]
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01 September 2023
BY DESTINY JOHNSONJournal Staff Writer The Ministry of Education and Technical and Vocational Training, in conjunction with the RoyalBahamas Police Force, added 27 new School Resource Officers (SRO) to school campusesfollowing a graduation ceremony last Friday at the Paul Farquharson Conference Center, policeheadquarters.Coordinator of School Policing and Officer in charge of the South-Central Division ChiefSuperintendent […]
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01 September 2023
BY DESTINY JOHNSONJournal Staff Writer The Ministry of Works have acquired new heavy-duty equipment for continued roadmaintenance and flood mitigation for the first time in over 20 years.Minister of Works and Utilities Alfred Sears said the road equipment cost a total of $400,000.“This is the first time in 20 years I’m advised that the ministry […]
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