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Government signs contract that will give Crooked Island settlements potable water for first time
Government signs contract that will give Crooked Island settlements potable water for first time
CROOKED ISLAND, The Bahamas – Residents of Crooked Island clapped their hands gleefully and burst forth exclamations of praise during the contract signing ceremony...
Cabbage Hill School Re-Naming (Crooked Island) - Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham
It is so wonderful to be with you on this special occasion and I am pleased to be accompanied by my wife Delores, a public school senior high school Principal who is making her very first visit to Crooked Island.
Government is committed to safe, reliable water in the Family Islands, says WSC Executive Chairman
Government is committed to safe, reliable water in the Family Islands, says WSC Executive Chairman
Executive Chairman of Water & Sewerage Corporation (WSC) Adrian Gibson assured residents of Crooked Island that the government is “keenly” aware of the water needs in the Family Islands, and is currently formulating plans to address these needs and committed to safe and reliable water supply...
Resident: Gray sleeps while our island burns
Resident: Gray sleeps while our island burns
A disgruntled Crooked Island resident yesterday criticised MICAL MP V. Alfred Gray for the government's poor reaction to massive fires on the island, as he lamented his family being subjected to inhaling "billows of thick black smoke" for the past three weeks.
Crooked Islanders complain hurricane repairs 'too slow'
THE pace of reconstruction in Crooked Island is moving "too slow," according to a former resident, who has urged the government to quicken its efforts to restore the hurricane-impacted island to normalcy.
'Crooked Island will bounce back'
Some Crooked Is. residents feel abandoned
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.
For Crooked Islanders, a new way of life sets in
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.
For some storm victims, reality only now setting in
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.
Homeless in Nassau
Homeless in Nassau
Shekiesha Delancy and Tonya Roberts, like many, lost everything on Crooked Island.