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China Vice Premier Meets with Bahamas

Above: Foreign Minister and Deputy PM Brent Symonette greets Wang Qishan, vice premier of China’s State Council in Nassau yesterday. (BIS Photo/Kris Ingraham) The Bahamas and China signed an economic-technical cooperation agreement at Paradise Island’s Atlantis resort the same day, […]

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Bahamas Swears in Supreme Court Justice

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamas has sworn in new Supreme Court Justice Milton Evans. Evans, who received his LLB from the University of the West Indies in 1986 and his certificate of legal education from the Norman Manley […]

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Bahamas Uses New Tools in Crime Fight

Above: Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest addressing the conference (BIS Photo/Patrick Hanna) The Bahamian government is implementing a series of new programmes aimed at addressing crime and criminality, according to Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest. Yesterday, in similar […]

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Bahamas to Add Police Reservists

Police and National Security officials in the Bahamas are expected to increase the ranks of the Police reserves in the next year, according to Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest. The decision is the result of what Turnquest called the […]

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China's Hu Visits Grand Bahama

Above: Ambassador Hu Shan, Bradley Armbrister, Island Administrator for the Bahamas’ East End District and Madame Liu Ping (BIS Photo/Vandyke Hepburn) Chinese Ambassador to the Bahamas Hu Shan made his first official visit to Grand Bahama Wednesday, looking at the […]


Baha Mar Signs Morgans, Hyatt, Rosewood

By the Caribbean Journal staff The massive Baha Mar resort project in Nassau has signed agreements with Hyatt Hotels, Rosewood and the Morgans Hotel Group to manage hotels at the project. Hyatt will manage the planned 700-room Grand Hyatt convention […]


Tropical Storm Watch for Bahamas, Turks

The Bahamian government has issued a tropical storm watch for the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands. As of 5PM yesterday, Tropical Storm Emily was located about 185 south-southeast of Puerto Rico, and 650 miles southeast of Great Inagua. […]

Sloop with 100 Haitian Migrants Lands on Shores of New Providence

More than 100 Haitian migrants traveling in a sloop ran aground in the waters off of southeastern New Providence in the Bahamas this morning, according to Ismella Davis of the Royal Bahamas Police Force. A mother and her baby were […]


Bahamas Keeps Up Infrastructure Push

Above: The massive road works project in New Providence (File Photo/BIS) The Bahamas is continuing its infrastructure push beyond New Providence with the announcement of $3.5 million in construction contracts to make upgrades in Abaco. The government signed three contracts, […]


Bahamas' Turnquest to Commonwealth: Help Small Democracies in Crime Fight

Above: Bahamas Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest (BIS Photo/Patrick Hanna) Bahamian Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest called for the world’s larger democracies to help island democracies like the Bahamas in the battle against piracy, illegal drug trafficking and […]

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Bahamas, Japan Meet on Tax Agreement

Above: Tadahito Yamaguchi, first secretary, Embassy of Japan in Jamaica and Ambassador Joshua Sears, director-general at the Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BIS Photo/Kris Ingraham) The governments of the Bahamas and Japan exchanged their notes yesterday on the two countries’ […]


Report: Billions of Barrels of Bahamian Oil

By the Caribbean Journal staff A report by Ryder Scott commissioned by the Bahamas Petroleum Company has found potentially significant oil resources offshore. According to Ryder Scott’s “Competent Persons Report,” which examined newly-acquired seismic data and previous information, even low-end […]


Bahamas Giving Pineapples a Boost

Above: Arnold Dorsett, Edison Key, Lucayan Tropical Manager Tim Hauber and BAIC GM Benjamin Rahming (BIS Photo/Derek Smith) By Gladstone Thurston In an effort to boost its pineapple industry, the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation has begun distributing 5,000 tissue-cultured […]