The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

A 35-year-old Jubilee Gardens who was allegedly busted with more than 400 marijuana plants is in police custody. Officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) arrested the man at10:40 a.m. Wednesday after searching his property. The plants range from one foot to three feet tall. Meanwhile, four people – two men and two women –spent […]

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The police officer who hit Aaron Rolle with a baton a day before he was found dead in a Southern Police Station cell last month denies that he used excessive force on the suspect and says his strikes could not have caused his death. A coroner’s inquest is being held to determine just how the […]

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The trial involving a contractor who allegedly dismembered his lover’s body two years ago won’t be wrapping up anytime soon as more witnesses are expected to testify next week. Prince Hepburn is on trial for the April 2011 murder of Nellie Mae Brown-Cox. Lead prosecutor and Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Franklyn Williams told the […]

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Cuban nationals detained at the Detention Centre have ended their hunger strike. The Ministry Of Foreign Affairs And Immigration confirmed Thursday that the Cuban detainees began accepting meals yesterday and also ate breakfast yesterday morning. However, online news from the Havana Times noted that the four Cuban women remain on that hunger strike, which started […]

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More than 100 students graduated from the “JA Our City” and “JA Our Community” programmes this week. JA Our City allows students to study careers and hone the skills they will need to work in specific careers. “JA Bahamas decided to offer programmes at the elementary level as we saw the need for students to […]

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Meet the “First Family of Education” in England . They are black. Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London , are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain education. The two youngest siblings are about to make British history as the youngest students to ever […]

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The C. R. Walker High School family celebrated their accomplishments yesterday in grand style as they took to the streets of New Providence in a motorcade. The Knights, according to their Principal Tina McKay are simply celebrating the excellence that the school has been exuding over the past year. “I’m so proud of my Knights. […]

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There are times in life when you can become so submerged and immersed in one’s own problems and challenges that you lose track of some of the good and some of the truly remarkable taking place elsewhere in the neighborhood. Today we break with our accustomed focus on the challenges we face in our country […]

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The leader of the fastest growing religious denomination in The Bahamas has claimed that the constitution doesn’t outline enough measures that protect the fundamental rights of all Bahamians. Pastor Leonard Johnson, leader of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in The Bahamas addressing the Constitutional Commission this past Friday, expressed his disappointment in the way some […]

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Twenty-four officers attached to the Central Detective Unit (CDU) graduated from a terrorist crime scene investigation course on Friday. The officers, who participated, were from CDU here in New Providence as well as Abaco, Grand Bahama, Exuma, Eleuthera among others. The Terrorist Crime Scene Investigation Training was a two-week course that provided the officers with […]

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