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OPTIMISM IN HAITI Govt. defends NIA 2024 amendment bill
 
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OPTIMISM IN HAITI

There is new hope for security in Haiti as countries around the world are pledging more support and funding to bring about peace and security in that Caribbean country.  The new Council there claims that the Haitian people are optimistic about the future.   The U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged another $160 million in […]

Prime Minister Hon. Philip Davis

Govt. defends NIA 2024 amendment bill

By Gerrino J. SaundersJournal Staff Writer The Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe said the NationalIntelligence Agency (NIA) Amendment Bill 2024 by the Davisadministration has breathed new life into the agency which is animportant arm of national security.Some of the major changes to the Bill include a change in name fromthe National Crime Intelligence Agency […]

International Culture Month Proclaimed in Rawson Square

13 October 2015

International Culture Month was proclaimed in Rawson Square on Saturday, October 10, 2015. The National Proclamation also announced the 20th Anniversary of the International Culture Wine and Food Festival, which in October regularly showcases the cultures of different nationalities resident in The Bahamas. The proclamation states that “the International Culture Wine & Food Festival has […]

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GB Traffic Fatality

13 October 2015

Police in Grand Bahama are investigating a traffic accident that has left a 46-year-old man of Freeport dead. Reports are that on Saturday, October 10, 2015 shortly after 5 p.m., a traffic accident occurred on West Grand Bahama Highway involving a black 2001 Ford Explorer that was driven by the deceased. The lone male driver […]

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Baha Mar Liquidators Held Talks with Stakeholders

13 October 2015

Edmund Rahming of KryS Global and Alastair Beveridge and Nick Cropper of AlixPartners, collectively the Joint Provisional Liquidators (JPLs) to the Baha Mar resort development, last week held constructive all party talks with the development’s key stakeholder groups. Chaired by the JPLs last week’s talks brought together representatives from the government of the Commonwealth of […]

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Two Holiday Weekend Murders

13 October 2015

Violent crime continued to saturate the capital this past holiday weekend, as the murder count increased by two. According to police reports, shortly before 2:00 p.m. while a man was standing in the area of Dorsette Street in Fox Hill, two men in a red Sentra approached him and opened fire, fatally shooting the victim. […]

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Wayne Munroe Joins PLP

09 September 2015

The Progressive Liberal Party officially welcomed a new member, Attorney Wayne Munroe, to its organization on Monday. Munroe, who ran unsuccessfully in the 2012 general elections as a DNA candidate in the Mount Moriah constituency, received a warm embrace by the party. Chairman of the PLP Bradley Roberts said in an interview yesterday that Munroe […]

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BCCEC Holds Entrepreneurial & Enterprise Skills Training Workshop

09 September 2015

The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers’ Confederation (BCCEC), the Bahamas Ministry of Finance, along with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), held an Entrepreneurial and Enterprise Skills Training Workshop for 40 participants on September 8 at the Comfort Suites Hotel on Paradise Island to launch their government- funded, Small Business Help Desk. The Small Business […]

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Minister Disappointed Over Disparaging Video

09 September 2015

Minister of Tourism, Obie Wilchcombe said although he is disappointed about a video that went viral showing the country in a lackluster light, it served as a wake-up call for Bahamians. So I think all of us should look at it and every Bahamian should know that we are always on the watch, people are […]

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AG – FNM Lacks Patriotism

09 September 2015

Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson yesterday shot back at criticism from two prominent opposition members who accused the government of interfering in the Baha Mar debacle and ineffectively crippling any chances of progress being made between the parties involved. She told reporters outside Cabinet that those remarks were concerning and demonstrate a “lack of patriotism by […]

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Public/Private Partnership Brings New Computer Lab For EP Roberts Primary School

09 September 2015

EP Roberts Primary School on Lincoln Boulevard and Balfour Avenue is celebrating the gift of a state-of-the-art computer lab equipped with 40 new laptops, the result of a partnership with RBC Royal Bank. Minister of Education Jerome Fitzgerald along with Minister of Transport and Aviation Glenys Hanna Martin, Royal Bank officials and others toured the […]

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COB New Faculty Member Gives Voice to Women Writers

09 September 2015

Sometimes, it is about finding the voice that is not there, hearing the words that have not been recorded and trying to determine why, according to Dr. Brianne Jaquette, assistant professor in the School of English Studies at The College of The Bahamas. Discovering that voice is vital for Dr. Jaquette, who began her faculty […]

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