27 June 2014
Imagine a place so serene, so exotic and so inviting that its welcome mat stretches for more than 40 acres, offering breath taking panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and its morning greeting is a warm kiss of freshly baked pastries. You’re there. This blissful seclusion is the newly built Ocean Dream Beach Resort located […]
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27 June 2014
Chervita Khadine Campbell was voted in as the new Chief Councillor for the City of Freeport District Council on Monday and Nevar Lionel Smith, a 27-year-old radio personality from Mix 102.1 FM is the new deputy chief councillor. The nine-member Council was sworn into office, June 25, in the meeting room of the National Insurance […]
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26 June 2014
Police officials reportedly shot an armed suspect yesterday but his accomplice was able to escape after officials foiled a mid afternoon home invasion in the Stapleton Gardens area. According to eye witnesses on the scene the man who was shot was outfitted with an ankle monitoring bracelet. It was just after 3:00 p.m. Wednesday when […]
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26 June 2014
Members of the Free National Movement (FNM) on Wednesday claimed that the lights were cut off to all public schools in Grand Bahama after the government allegedly did not pay the bills. According to a press statement issued by FNM Member of Parliament for Central Grand Bahama and Shadow Minister of Public Works Neko Grant […]
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26 June 2014
The Bahamas Medical Association recently announced that they have added 24 new Bahamian doctors to its 301-member body this past weekend. Some 24 Bahamian students were inducted as new doctors during the University of the West Indies School of Clinical Medicine and Research Awards ceremony on Sunday. The graduates were reminded by post graduate-education coordinator, […]
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26 June 2014
Chevanese Sasha Gaye-Hall, the Jamaican national who is the first person to be tried and convicted for human trafficking in The Bahamas, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. During her sentencing before Senior Supreme Court Justice Jon Isaacs on Wednesday, Gaye-Hall was initially sentenced to 15 years at Her Majesty’s Prisons, but Justice […]
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26 June 2014
Opposition Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis is calling on the Church to protect Bahamians against a tax policy that he is convinced with further burden them and remove the hope of a better life. Dr. Minnis was referring to the government’s proposed Value Added Tax (VAT) that will be introduced at a rate of 7.5 per […]
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26 June 2014
Business vendors operating on Cabbage Beach at Paradise Island took to Rawson Square with placards and posters Wednesday morning and claimed that Senior Vice President of Public Relations at Atlantis Ed Fields is “violating the rights of local business owners in The Bahamas.” According to Monique Taylor, president of the Cabbage Beach Business Owners Association, […]
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13 June 2014
The 2014 Labour Week kicked off over the weekend and over the next few days officials of the National Congress of Trade Unions of The Bahamas (NCTUB) have planned a number of activities to commemorate this year’s event As customary, the NCTUB will pay tribute to two trade union leaders. This year’s honorees are David […]
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13 June 2014
A 17-year-old boy, believed to be the son of well-known convicted drug traffickers became the country’s latest murder victim after he was brutally stabbed to death Sunday night. According to Journal sources the victim is Enrico Major, the son of Dwight and Keva Major. Police did not immediately confirm the victim’s identity last night but […]
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