07 August 2019
Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) is investigating the causes of this past weekend’s power outages which resulted in intermittent load shedding throughout New Providence. Yesterday, BPL Director of Public Relations K. Quincy Parker confirmed information revealed earlier this week by Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU) President Paul Maynard that three of the corporation’s generation assets […]
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07 August 2019
Police shot a man dead in Fox Hill on Tuesday. According to police, shortly after 2 a.m. on Tuesday they responded to reports of gunshots on Grant Street, Fox Hill where they encountered a male acting in a suspicious manner. Police said as they approached the suspect, he produced a firearm, pointed it in the […]
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07 August 2019
With at least 31 killed in the U.S. this past weekend 1,300 miles apart, 22 in El Paso, Texas and nine in Dayton, Ohio, in mass shootings, the question is now being brought to the fore again, and that’s – is it time for The Bahamas to issue travel advisories to Bahamians traveling to the […]
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06 August 2019
After touring schools in his constituency, Exuma and Ragged Island Member of Parliament Chester Cooper said he is “shocked and dismayed” that school repairs have yet to begin. This past weekend, Cooper toured public schools in Exuma to determine their readiness for the upcoming school year, but he believes they are being neglected. “I visited […]
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06 August 2019
A less than satisfactory rental facility coupled with long term renovations to its current location has left health officials with little choice but to relocate the clinic in Mangrove Cay, Andros. According to Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands, the plan is to follow through with that before the end of the year. “We have […]
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06 August 2019
Tests to the fire extinguishers and sprinkler system at the General Post Office at the Town Centre Mall led to what’s known as a water incursion in the mail sorting area on Friday morning. Minister responsible, Renward Wells explained in a release that prior to the Post Office occupying the premises, the sprinkler system was […]
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06 August 2019
An early morning drive in Abaco, on Sunday, resulted in the death of an adult female, bringing the total number of traffic fatalities for the country to 23, according to The Journal records. Police in the Northern Bahamas are investigating the circumstances surrounding a two car collision on Don McKay Boulevard that claimed the life […]
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06 August 2019
The Emancipation holiday weekend was marred by two murders in less than 24 hours in the capital. Police are investigating and looking for the triggermen responsible for the fatal shootings that happened only nine hours a part. The latest homicide occurred shortly after 1 p.m. on Sunday, when a male was sitting behind his home […]
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06 August 2019
Minister of Health Dr. Sands said chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD) in The Bahamas are “too serious of a matter and should not be trivialized by petty political gamesmanship”. Dr. Sand’s comment was in response to Englerston Member of Parliament Glenys Hanna-Martin’s statement that called for the minster and the Ministry of Health to respond to […]
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06 August 2019
Following the country’s latest homicide, New Covenant Baptist Church Pastor Emeritus Simeon Hall warned Bahamians that they should not “cower” the spirit of murder and accept is as the “new normal”. “A demonic culture of deadly violence increases not merely because some are set on criminality, but because of the comfortable, so-called ‘good people’ who […]
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