The Bahama Journal – Jones Communications Network

Taking another step towards expanding access to preschool education, the government, this past Tuesday, inked a deal for the Private Preschool Partnership.  The partnership is designed to place public school preschoolers in approved private preschools.  With this agreement, participating private preschools will accommodate preschoolers, who government preschools cannot accommodate.  Minister of Education Jeffrey Lloyd said, […]

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The status hearing for the injunction filed against the Bahamas Doctors Union (BDU) forcing members to return to work was heard before Justice Ian Winder yesterday.  Representing the BDU, Attorney Obie Ferguson requested an extension date for the trial, considering doctors had returned to work. Further, he informed the court that he had just finished […]

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Addressing the growing issue of fraud in The Bahamas, the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) yesterday highlighted fraud trends that police have been investigating over the past several years. One of the trends discussed was third party transfers.  Police indicated that they received reports from both members of the public and several commercial banks where […]

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Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Fred Mitchell is calling on the prime minister to address the nation on what should be done to adequately prepare for Hurricane Dorian. According to Mitchell, PLP supporters have called in to complain that no one from the government has distributed sufficient notices about the Hurricane.  “It appears that what […]

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Minister of Social Services Frankie Campbell and Parliamentary Secretary Michael Foulkes announced on Thursday that they are on their third draft of a bill to protect senior citizens’ rights. In his remarks at the Department of Social Services’ Elder Abuse Awareness Symposium, Minister Campbell admitted that he witnessed first-hand dealing with elder abuse while working […]

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The Royal Bahamas Police warned the public to be careful on the road as public schools reopen on September 2. At a press conference on Thursday at the Police Headquarters, the police listed a number of traffic offenses they will be monitoring on the first day of school and all divisions of the force will […]

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The Ministry of Finance and Bahamas Customs on Wednesday held another press conference reminding the public of the implementation of Click2Clear on September 1. The portal has already been implemented in phases and the next phase is for businesses to register to collect any items from the New Providence seaport as of September 1, 2019. […]

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The Department of Meteorology warned on Wednesday that Hurricane Dorian is making a turn towards the Northwest Bahamas after just missing the southern islands.   The department has been tracking the storm’s path and said the storm will affect mostly North Eleuthera, Abaco and Grand Bahama.  On Wednesday morning the alert for Southeast Bahamas was […]

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The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed an appeal to set aside the judgement of acquittal on the no case to answer submission for former Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Senator Frank Smith’s extortion and bribery case.  The grounds of appeal were that the “learned magistrate took extraneous matters into consideration, evidence was wrongly rejected or inadmissible […]

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Opposition Leader Philip Davis yesterday called for the government “to go” following the Court of Appeal’s decision to dismiss the Crown’s appeal against former Progressive Liberal Party Senator Frank Smith.  He also renewed the call for the ministers of health and national security to resign for their involvement in the case. Mr. Davis expressed that […]

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