November 17, 2025
Royal Bahamas Defence Force officers stand guard aboard the container barge "The Brooklyn Bridge" on November 14, 2025.
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Pastors help residents return looted barge items
NORTH Abaco pastors are helping residents voluntarily return items taken from the Brooklyn Bridge barge that ran aground last month, as pressure mounts over repeated ship groundings in Abaco and what critics call inadequate penalties for reef damage.
‘There’s no maritime law that justifies that kind of tiefing’
WHAT began on Thursday as a jubilant rush to loot a grounded barge off Abaco became a criminal scandal over the weekend, with at least two arrested and National Security Minister Wayne Munroe denouncing the mass theft as “criminal behaviour” that “gave Abaco a black eye.”
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