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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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March 04, 2019
New Water Mains on the way for Crooked Island residents

Some 250 residents in Crooked Island can look forward to the installation of new water mains in several settlements in this far-flung 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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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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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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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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September 12, 2012
But Threatens Sit-In Over Forgotten School

Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) President Belinda Wilson said if the government does not complete repairs on the Colonel Hill High School on Crooked Island by December, the teachers' union will take industrial action.

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The Forgotten School
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September 10, 2012
The Forgotten School

While Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald has boasted of a multimillion-dollar school upgrade around The Bahamas, more than 30 students at Colonel Hill High School on Crooked Island had to crowd into a small guesthouse because their school remains severely damaged from Hurricane Irene more than a year ago.

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