12 December 2017
Rights Bahamas has commended Minister of Immigration Brent Symonette for publicly recognizing that there was never any lawful basis for deporting missing detainee Jean Rony Jean-Charles to Haiti. Rights Bahamas said they consider the minister’s statements to represent a huge step forward in terms of migrants rights in The Bahamas. “We ask him to go […]
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12 December 2017
Despite a number of layoffs in the private and public sectors leading up to the holiday season, Director of Labour Robert Farquharson said he is hopeful that new jobs will be created in the new year. The Bank of the Bahamas, The Gaming Board, The Ministry of Tourism, Resorts World Bimini and The Department Of […]
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11 December 2017
A major announcement in the tourism and aviation sector, as Tourism Minister Dionisio D’aguilar revealed he has signed three (3) Air Service Agreements (ASAs) on behalf of The Bahamas with Qatar, Australia and Finland. This brings a total of eleven ASAs agreed between the Bahamas and other countries. Agreements were previously signed with the Netherlands, Curaçao, Singapore, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, […]
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11 December 2017
Former Free National Movement MP and financial analyst, Lester Turnquest says The Bahamas has not truly escaped the confines of the European Union’s daunted blacklist, but its absence is only brief peace offering for what’s to come. The Bahamas was spared from being blacklisted as a tax haven in the European Union’s (EU) December 2017 […]
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11 December 2017
The human rights group, Amnesty International has issued an “Urgent Action Bulletin” on behalf of Jean Rony Jean-Charles, after his family claimed that they did not know his whereabouts after being deported from the Bahamas. An urgent call has been made to hundreds of amnesty associates, according to a press statement by Rights Bahamas. “An […]
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11 December 2017
As a society we suffer generally from a basic failure of Social Studies in our understanding of the Constitutional Order . This is the view of the President of the Bahamas Bar Association Kahlil Parker. He made the statement during his address to a room filled with eager law students from the Eugene Dupuch […]
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08 December 2017
A major drug seizure in Andros yesterday, leaving over 10,000 pounds of marijuana in the hands of police officials. According to police reports, around 1pm on Wednesday Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) officers, along with US Drug Enforcement Agents (DEA), were on routine patrol in the North Andros area when they discovered a marijuana field […]
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08 December 2017
With one day left before the registration process ends for the Citizen Security and Justice Programme Employability Survey, the Bahamas Department of Labour along with the Ministry of National Security are making efforts to ensure that as many at-risk, unemployed youths between the ages of 16-29 years of age are able to embrace this opportunity […]
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08 December 2017
Launched in January of this year, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the new Polycarbonate E-Passport supersedes the electronic passport introduced in 2007, making room for a quick turnaround time, according to Chief Passport Officer, Clarence Russell. Speaking at a Rotary Club Of Southeast Nassau meeting, Mr. Russell said that long gone are the days […]
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08 December 2017
Supreme Court Justice Mr. Gregory Hilton yesterday granted application for a writ of Habeas Corpus in a case brought by Queen’s Counsel Fred Smith against The Carmichael Detention Center and the Immigration Department. Mr. Smith was escorted off the property of The Carmichael Detention Center on Monday after attempting to see his client, Jean […]
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