RESIDENTS of Crooked Island clapped their hands gleefully during a contract signing ceremony to supply potable water for the first time in several settlements on the remote island.

Water and Sewerage Corporation Executive Chairman Adrian Gibson led a small delegation to the island on Tuesday, June 18, and signed a contract totalling $1,911,650.46 with Peter Andrews, chairman of Bahamas Hot Mix, at Ezekiel Thompson Hall in Cabbage Hill.

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