Former Las Vegas Sands Corp president Bill Weidner has been chosen to operate a new US$3.5 billion (28 billion patacas) gaming resort in The Bahamas. Baha Mar is being majority-funded by the Export-Import Bank of China–a state-owned Chinese institution–and is due to open in December 2014.

A water-logged course has forced officials at the inaugural Bahamas LPGA Classic to shorten Friday's opening round to 12 holes with hope of finishing 36 holes by Sunday. Workers continued Thursday to try to remove water from drenching rainstorms that has flooded parts of the ninth, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th holes, while organizers plotted a new course route past the Ocean Club's unplayable holes.