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CAC Games: Judoka Karra Falls in the semi-finals

IT wasn’t the outcome judoka Karra Hanna anticipated at the Central American and Caribbean Games being held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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Carl ‘Flashy King’ Hield wins his opening bout

AGELESS wonder Carl “Flashy King” Hield turned in another credible performance, winning his opening boxing match yesterday at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

Port defends work halt at Port Lucaya Marina

FREEPORT regulators yesterday defended the decision to halt the demolition of the Port Lucaya Marina’s docks, the first phase in a $21.8m redevelopment project, because the new owner has yet to comply with required processes and procedures.

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Total Trump tariff crawfish exemption likely ‘long shot’

A FISHERIES executive yesterday conceded it will be “a long shot” to get Bahamian lobster and stone crab exports totally exempted from Donald Trump’s 12.5 percent tariff but praised the Government’s bid to have the rate lowered as a “more realistic” goal.

Port Lucaya buyer: End work halt over ‘immediate danger’

THE PORT Lucaya Marina’s purchaser yesterday argued that the “immediate danger” posed by the property’s “life-threatening conditions” must take priority over the administrative procedures it says regulators are citing for imposing a ‘stop work’ order on its demolition.

‘Congestion’ fears over 25-slip marina near Potter’s Cay

THE ASSOCIATION of Bahamas Marinas (ABM) president yesterday voiced concern that a new 25-boat slip marina to be located just west of Potter’s Cay will create “over congestion” in both Nassau Harbour and for road-based traffic.

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Fidelity: We won’t join ‘folly’ of risky lending

A BISX-LISTED bank has pledged it will not join the “folly” of its rivals by pursuing unsafe loans with its chief executive yesterday predicting that the Bahamian mortgage market will take another two years to recover to pre-COVID levels.

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Engines from fatal flight sent to US investigators

WRECKAGE from the Independence Day plane crash that killed ten people off Andros has been sent to the United States for detailed examination as investigators continue gathering evidence to determine what caused one of the country’s worst aviation disasters in recent history.