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Volume: 122 No. 246, Monday, November 17, 2025
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‘WE LOST EVERYTHING’ Six Arawak Cay restaurants razed in Sunday inferno were not insured By JADE RUSSELL and KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporters HEARTBREAK and disbelief swept through Arawak Cay yesterday as a fast-moving fire tore through a section of the popular food strip, destroying at least six stalls and severely damaging two others. When the smoke cleared, stunned owners confronted the reality that their busiest season, the Christmas rush, had vanished – along with the structures they spent years building. Their livelihoods had literally gone up in flames – none of the destroyed properties were insured as they were all deemed ‘uninsurable.’ The blaze erupted around 8am at Goldie’s Conch House and quickly spread to neighbouring wooden structures. Within minutes, thick smoke blanketed the area as firefighters battled the flames and patrons looked on in shock, some throwing buckets of water in a vain attempt to help. Women who work at Goldie’s clung to one another as the restaurant burned. INFERNO - SEE PAGE FOUR
AERIAL view of the Arawak Cay fire which destroyed six restaurants Sunday. Photo: Marvin Thompson
FIREFIGHTERS battle a massive fire at Arawak Cay’s Fish Fry on November 16, 2025. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
‘There’s no maritime law that TRIBUTES AND TEARS AS FAMILY justifies that kind of tiefing’ AND FRIENDS REMEMBER MADILYN By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net 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.”
Mr Munroe told The Tribune yesterday that the scale of the theft and the number of residents defending it made the ordeal especially disturbing. “There’s no maritime law that justifies that kind of tiefing,” he said. “What is more reprehensible is how widespread it was and how many Bahamians you see online seeking to defend THEFT - SEE PAGE THREE
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net GRIEF hung heavy over St Joseph’s Catholic Parish on Thursday as the mother of 16-year-old Madilyn Thompson described how “alive” and full of joy her daughter had been just hours before her fatal fall in Panama earlier this month. Classmates, teachers and teammates from Saint
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Augustine’s College filled the church with songs, tributes and tears, remembering Madilyn as bright, gentle and fiercely talented. Her family received a jar of handwritten messages from classmates, a keepsake meant to honour a life cut short. “She lived. Madi enjoyed life. In Panama, Madi was alive. She really was the life MADILYN - SEE PAGE SEVEN