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A two-day downtown power outage crippled key court operations in the Bahamas, sparking a clash between officials downplaying it as a minor glitch and legal advocates warning it seriously disrupted justice. While the Director of Public Prosecutions called it an inconvenience — noting the Supreme Court stayed online — the Bahamas Bar Association slammed the shutdown for materially harming access to justice, citing postponed cases, turned-away litigants, and rescheduled hearings. The outage stemmed from backup generator failures after prolonged power loss, with one unit’s damaged seals causing repeated breakdowns. Even the Industrial Tribunal was affected. BPL blamed a cable fault near Rawson Square, promising repairs by early Wednesday — amid a broader pattern of island-wide power woes attributed to aging infrastructure and high demand.

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