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April 21, 2016
Gray 'not sleeping while island burns' as fire trucks head to scene

MICAL MP V. Alfred Gray yesterday defended his handling of the fires in Crooked Island, rejecting assertions that he "sleeps while Crooked Island burns" as "utter rubbish".

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April 18, 2016
Crooked Island residents see no end to fire turmoil

DESPITE pleas, long-suffering residents of Crooked Island say they see "no end to the turmoil" of the last two weeks as fires continue to burn in and around four of the island's major settlements.

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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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April 20, 2016
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.

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News Article
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 18, 2015
Miller calms concerns over Crooked Island water supply

BAHAMAS Electricity Corporation Executive Chairman Leslie Miller yesterday quelled concerns that the quality of Crooked Island's ground water supply could be contaminated by the corporation's diesel tanks that were dislodged by Hurricane Joaquin...

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News Article
October 20, 2015
No answer yet on how much fuel leaked from tanks on Crooked Island

BAHAMAS Electricity Corporation Executive Chairman Leslie Miller yesterday confirmed that there was "some leakage" when fuel tanks were dislodged in Crooked Island during Hurricane Joaquin, however he said a full analysis had not yet been completed to determine how much fuel was lost...

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News Article
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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