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June 19, 2019
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...

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February 03, 2012
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.

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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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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 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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February 18, 2015
Crooked Island High School students lauded

Crooked Island High School principal, Maegan Colebrooke, is a believer in students always striving to improve themselves, which she says is always a move in the right direction.

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November 26, 2012
Crooked Island School Still In Limbo

Repairs to Colonel Hill High School on Crooked Island, often called forgotten by residents, will have to wait as all bids to reconstruct the facility have been rejected by the Tenders Board, according to Minister of Education, Science and Technology Jerome Fitzgerald.

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September 12, 2012
Lack Of Concern By The Central Govt In Crooked Island

Many Family Islanders are of the view that the central government in New Providence cares less about the people of the Family Islands that it does for them.

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December 13, 2011
Chinese Embassy Donates 10,000 To Rebuild Crooked Island High School

Chinese Ambassador, His Excellency Hu Shan presented Minister of Education, The Honourable T. Desmond Bannister with a cheque for $10,000 towards the rebuilding of the Crooked Island High School....

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News Article
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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