Posted on 30 May 2025.
By Julian Reid Bahama Journal News Editor Prime Minister Philip Davis told businesspeople in New York on Thursday that The Bahamas offers certainty. “Certainty in our governance. Certainty in our legal framework. Certainty in our business environment. And certainty in our direction as a nation committed to stability, integrity, and sustainable growth”. His comments were […]
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Posted on 30 May 2025.
The budget communication in the House Assembly on Wednesday by Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, the Honourable Philip Davis is receiving high praises across the length and breadth of The Bahamas. It has in it a number of firsts which placed the governing Progressive Liberal Party in an enviable position and must now force […]
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Posted on 30 May 2025.
A balanced budget has been a common phrase tossed around by successivegovernments, but something that has been seemingly unachievable, at least untilnow.During his 2025/2026 budget communication in the House of Assembly PrimeMinister Philip Davis who is also Minister of Finance announced that, in summary,his Government’s expenditure and policy actions in the budget included measuresthat will […]
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Posted on 30 May 2025.
By Arianna NeelyJournal Staff Writer Michael Pintard Leader of the Official Opposition Free National Movementdescribed The Davis administration’s 2025/2026 Budget Communication thatboasts of achieving a balanced budget and a surplus as an “unbalanced reality.”During a press conference from the Minority Room following the Prime Minister’scommunication Mr. Pintard accused the Prime Minister of trying to sell […]
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Posted on 30 May 2025.
BY GERRINO SAUNDERSJournal Staff Writer If you were hoping to get a student visa for the United States, you’re going to haveto wait for a while. How long is uncertain. On Tuesday, U.S. President DonaldTrump’s Administration ordered U.S. Embassies around the world to stopscheduling appointments for student visas as it prepares to expand social mediavetting […]
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Posted on 30 May 2025.
As The Bahamas celebrates another Randol Fawkes Labour Day with low levels of unemployment, Bahamians should take notice of the relative calm in the ranks of the Trade Union movement in the country. While there are grievances and unresolved issues, to be sure, it is commendable that the Minister of Labour and the Public Service, […]
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Posted on 30 May 2025.
The Bahamas has lost roughly twelve hundred young black men in the last ten years due to black-on-black violence. It is that type of crime through violence, or when a homicide occurs often at the point of a gun or a knife, when one black man kills another of the same colour. There is a […]
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Posted on 30 May 2025.
By Julian Reid Bahama Journal Editor Prime Minister Philip Davis said an $827 million deal to develop the New Grand Lucayan Resort that was executed in Freeport, Grand Bahama yesterday “will long be remembered as pivotal for the people of Grand Bahama.” “It’s time to turn the page on hardship, to leave heartbreak behind. It’s […]
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Posted on 30 May 2025.
By Gerrino J. SaundersBahama Journal News Editor The government is proud of the work it has done that has resulted in The Bahamasbeing removed from the European and French financial services blacklist for noncooperative countries.In its most recent sitting Members of Parliament debated and passed acompendium of nine financial service related bills the government hopes […]
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Posted on 30 May 2025.
By Gerrino J. SaundersBahama Journal News Editor The United States is one of our closest neighbors and by far the most powerful, andthere is no secret that they have been at odds with both China and Cuba fordecades, and now The Bahamas seems to be caught in the middle, something thegovernment says it wants no […]
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