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December 14, 2011
Restoring Crooked Island High School

Things are finally looking up for 14-year-old Danesha Daxon and the other 32 students of the Crooked Island High School. It has been more than three months since their school lay in waste in the wake of Hurricane Irene.

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April 22, 2016
HMBS Lawrence Major transports firefighting equipment to Crooked Island

The Royal Bahamas Defence Force's (RBDF) recently acquired landing craft HMBS Lawrence Major, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Milton Munroe, recently departed the John Alfred Wharf en route to Crooked Island to transport the Royal Bahamas Police Force's fire truck and additional firefighting equipment to Crooked Island.

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November 11, 2015
'Crooked Island will bounce back'

Kirkwood McKinney has no plans to leave his home.

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November 09, 2015
Some Crooked Is. residents feel abandoned

Just over a month after Hurricane Joaquin devastated the southeastern Bahamas, Patrick Ferguson said he feels the government has forgotten about the people of Crooked Island.

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October 14, 2015
PM: Crooked Island To Get Self- Contained Camp This Week

As part of its ongoing effort to bring relief to the southern islands devastated by Hurricane Joaquin, Prime Minister Perry Christie announced yesterday that the government expects several self-sustained containers to land on Crooked Island within 48 hours.

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February 21, 2013
Renzo Construction Awarded Contract To Repair Crooked Island high school

The government awarded a $280,000 contract to Renzo Construction yesterday for the repair of Colonel Hill High School on Crooked Island more than a year after Hurricane Irene damaged it.
Work is expected to start in two weeks said Lorenzo Moss, owner of Renzo Construction. It is expected to be completed before the end of June.

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December 19, 2011
CFAL Donates Computer Equipment to Crooked Island High School

When Hurricane Irene touched down on Crooked Island earlier this year it left in its wake a badly damaged Crooked Island High School. Included in that damage was the school's computer lab, which was used by the entire student body and adults in the community.

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November 10, 2015
For Crooked Islanders, a new way of life sets in

Barbara R. Gibson and her husband spend their evenings cleaning out their home in this small fishing community, where finding fish is hard these days because the storm-damaged marina means fishermen have no safe way of launching their boats into the sea.

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November 06, 2015
For some storm victims, reality only now setting in

Not long after Hurricane Joaquin ravaged Crooked Island last month, Don Gibson and his wife, Barbara, left for Nassau.

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October 22, 2015
Defense force establishes effective presence in Crooked Island

Continuing its aggressive efforts to bring relief to the residents of the hard hit southern islands of The Bahamas in the wake of hurricane Joaquin, The Bahamas government through the Royal Bahamas Defence Force has established an effective presence in Crooked Island in the form of a temporary work base.

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