19 May 2014
The Links Safe House for Women in Crisis is force to house up to 50 battered and abused mothers seeking refuge from domestic violence in their homes each year. Chairman of the facility Sharon Wilson said the amount of cases recorded each year is alarming. “The Nassau chapter of Links has operated a safe house […]
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16 May 2014
Leading unionists may not have a problem with parliamentarians getting a salary increase, but considering the fiscal constraints the country is still wrestling and the outstanding needs of their members, “now is not the time.” In an interview with the Bahama Journal yesterday, Bahamas Public Services Union (BPSU) President, John Pinder said it is the […]
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16 May 2014
More than 20 young men have completed the first phase of a three-day Shock Treatment Programme, the first of its kind in The Bahamas. Exposure to Her Majesty’s Prisons (HMP), former offenders and visits to the Central Police Station, the morgue and graveyards were some of the components of the programme that 22 young men […]
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16 May 2014
The government is expected to spend $15 million to complete the construction of a new Approach Control Centre and purchase of a modern radar system as it moves to modernise the local aviation sector. According to Transport and Aviation Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin, of this figure, the radar totalled more than $11.8 million. It was chosen, […]
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16 May 2014
Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader Branville McCartney yesterday called it insensitive that a Parliamentary select committee has recommended that the salaries of Members of Parliament (MPs) be increased and a new building be erected to house the upper and lower legislative bodies. “This is an embarrassment to our country yet again,” Mr. McCartney said at […]
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16 May 2014
The Grand Bahama businessman shot and killed has been identified as Sedrick Hepburn. According to authorities, the 47-year-old Lincoln Green resident was walking alongside his girlfriend shortly before 6:00pm in the Fortune Bay Drive area shortly before 6:00p.m. when he was shot multiple times about the body. Hepburn’s companion was unharmed. Police are again appealing […]
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16 May 2014
If the Opposition has evidence to support its claims that the government is illegally spying on Bahamians through the controversial National Intelligence Agency (NIA), it should produce the proof, Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader Branville McCartney charged yesterday. Mr. McCartney raised concern about the operation of the agency and like the Free National Movement (FNM), […]
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16 May 2014
A business that began over 70 years ago with a hotdog cart in California has made its way to The Bahamas, only the third Caribbean country to boast the taste of Carl’s Jr. There are nearly 3,500 such charbroiled burger joints around the world in 30 other countries. Boasting a reputation as America’s leading burger […]
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16 May 2014
The Bahamas Agricultural Marine and Science Research Institute (BAMSI) is being hailed as one of the Christie Administration’s most groundbreaking achievements and with the new school expected to open in September, government officials said they are happy with the progress being made so far. During a tour of the still growing facility earlier this week […]
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16 May 2014
Police officials in Abaco uncovered more than 2,000 marijuana plants in a cultivation field early Tuesday morning. According to police reports the marijuana field was found in Crossing Rock, Abaco around 9:30 that morning. It was reported that officers of the Marsh Harbour, Abaco District acting on information went to an area in Crossing Rock, […]
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