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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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October 06, 2015
HURRICANE JOAQUIN: 46 airlifted to Nassau after plea from Commissioner, 'some time' before power will be restored in stricken areas

o 46 people evacuated from Pitts Town Point, Crooked Island, who were at Colonel Hill Airport, have been airlifted to Nassau after Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade made a plea for help this afternoon.

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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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April 15, 2016
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.

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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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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 17, 2015
Trailer homes sent to Acklins, Crooked Island

The government purchased the first set of trailer homes to provide temporary housing for residents displaced following the passage of Hurricane Joaquin through the Central and Southeast Bahamas last month.

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May 01, 2017
"BTC Team Member Turned Owner"

Over Thirty Bahamians are Now BTC Business Owners...If there is anything worth honoring, it is endurance.? These were the words of Crooked Island native Barbara Gibson, an employee of over thirty-eight years, who changed her status from team member, to owner...

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August 14, 2012
Rededicated Church a 'Place of Great History', says DPM

Old Bight, Cat Island, The Bahamas - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Urban Development the Hon. Philip Davis said, on August 12, 2012, that the Church of St Mary the Virgin, in Old Bight, Cat Island, has been "a place of great history".

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