25 February 2014
The Valley Boys will remain the victors of the 2013 Boxing Day and the 2014 New Year’s Day junkanoo parades as according to the official 2013/2014 junkanoo results. After protests by four A-category groups, the official results were released yesterday morning by Parade Management Team Chairman Douglas Hanna. In the Boxing Day parade, the Valley […]
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25 February 2014
Abaco police have released an all points bulletin for the pilot who they believe attempted to fly a group of illegal immigrants out of the country. Officers said they are actively looking for 30-year-old Owen George Johnson. Police said officers were acting on information when they headed to the Sandy Point Airport and spotted an […]
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25 February 2014
More than 300 retired police officers are preparing to sue the government for over $100 million in owed gratuity. In fact, attorney Glendon Rolle said a writ will be filed in the Supreme Court sometime this week. He explained that gratuity is paid to police officers as compensation for their “due diligence” over the years. […]
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25 February 2014
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose body was found on a jitney Monday afternoon, Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson said last evening. ACP Ferguson said the driver of a route No. 1 jitney alerted officers at the Southern Police Station on Quakoo Street sometime after 6:00 p.m. about […]
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25 February 2014
The war of words between a local bishop and the chief magistrate has now been forwarded to the Attorney General’s Office and the chief justice after the bishop lodged a formal complaint against the judge. Earlier this month Bishop Walter Hanchell and Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt got into a bitter spat after she arraigned youth […]
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25 February 2014
Five years after insurance company CLICO went belly-up leaving more than 30,000 customers in limbo, Pastor Emeritus of New Covenant Baptist Church Bishop Simeon Hall who initially went to bat for the policyholders is now calling on the government to offer financial assistance. In fact, Bishop Hall warned that if the Christie Administration wants to […]
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03 February 2014
Sandals executives say they remain “astonished” by what they said are the Bahamas Hotel and Maintenance Workers Union’s (BHMAWU) “ongoing efforts to destabilise the resort’s 720-strong workforce and undermine the resort’s efforts to drive tourism to The Bahamas.” On Thursday, 187 unionised workers voted to strike against the Cable Beach resort claiming that executives refused […]
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03 February 2014
Helen Brown said she does not need police confirmation nor DNA tests to prove that the man’s body found shot and burnt beyond recognition is that of her son 30-year-old Nekos Kemp. She told The Bahama Journal Friday that Kemp left their Malcolm Road home around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and never returned home. She said […]
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03 February 2014
The march against crime, dubbed the “Freedom March,” was a success, according to the march’s organisers. Anti-crime activist, Rodney Moncur told reporters that he was pleased with the turnout on Saturday and that he hopes that the government took note of it. “Today you see a coalition of Bahamians who will march and continue to […]
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03 February 2014
Greater diligence is needed when carrying out judicial duties, according to Court of Appeal President Justice Anita Allen. Justice Allen said as much during the opening of the High Court last week. “It is incumbent on us, to do more to ensure that the negative perception which hangs over us does not continue, by showing […]
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