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February 14, 2020
Salina Point Primary Project aims to preserve environment, while assisting student who ‘loves to help others’

School officials and students at the Salina Point Primary School in Salina Point, Acklins, have become great examples of how schools can effect positive change within their communities while also helping to preserve the environment with the launch of a Tyre Recycling/Refurbishment Project...

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March 04, 2019
Water and Sewerage Corporation assesses work in Acklins Island

Improved water quality, the installation of generators and a new reverse osmosis (RO) plant are among the new initiatives the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) has planned for the island of Acklins...

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January 27, 2016
The Governor General takes a look at Acklins

Her Excellency Dame Marguerite Pindling, Governor General, visited Acklins on Monday, January 25, 2016 as part of a review of islands impacted by Hurricane Joaquin last October.

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October 08, 2015
Acklins storm survivors share their stories

Henry Rolle has lived on Acklins for over 20 years, and the passage of Hurricane Joaquin last week marks the third time he lost a home to a cyclone on the island in the southern Bahamas.

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February 12, 2016
NEMA awards two contracts for Acklins reconstruction

Two building contractors were awarded contracts to construct homes on Acklins, one of the islands severely impacted by the Category 4 Hurricane Joaquin in October 2015.

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November 18, 2015
Man who rode out Joaquin on Samana Cay tells harrowing tale

Six weeks after Hurricane Joaquin devastated The Bahamas, the story of what it was like to be on Samana Cay at the time of the storm is finally being told.

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April 11, 2014
Criticism for Gray after cascarilla plants removed

THE Chief Councillor of the Acklins' district council yesterday criticised MICAL MP and Minister of Agriculture V Alfred Gray for defending the government's decision to ship cascarilla plants from that island to Andros...

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