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December 13, 2017
Cat Island Students Compete to Assist Community Projects

The Hon. Frankie Campbell and a delegation from the Ministry of Transport and Local Government visited Cat Island recently. While there, Junior Councilors from Arthur?s Town High School and Old Bight High School participated in a District Local Government Junior...

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October 13, 2016
Cat Island in darkness as high, gusty winds strike

AT Islanders will have to sit through category 3 Hurricane Matthew in darkness as Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) has shut down the electricity supply to the entire island, according to island administrator Jackson McIntosh on Wednesday night.

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August 30, 2011
Couple Rallying Friends, Family to Assist Cat Island

As the dust settles after Hurricane Irene, images out of the hardest hit southern islands of The Bahamas are sobering -- communities are facing weeks and months without water, clean food, electricity and even shelter.

To those on islands which were spared the full force of the major hurricane, the images spawn a sense of helplessness and a desire to assist those in these far-off communities in ...

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September 23, 2021
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning In Effect For Cat Island

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CAT ISLAND AND ITS ADJACENT WATERS.

AT 12:40 AM, OBSERVATION, LIGHTNING DETECTION, RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY DEPICTED A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH TROUGHING INTERACTING WITH TROPICAL MOISTURE, MOVING NORTHWESTWARDS ACROSS THE WARNING AREA.

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July 19, 2021
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning In Effect For Cat Island

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CAT ISLAND ALONG WITH ITS ADJACENT WATERS.

A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EXUMAS ALONG WITH THEIR ADJACENT WATERS.

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October 22, 2019
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Hurricane Dorian has been a wakeup call for our country. I was present at one of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) situation report meetings immediately after Dorian, where I gained a true understanding of the scale and magnitude of this climate disaster...

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May 01, 2019
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning In Effect for Cat Island

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CAT ISLAND AND ITS ADJACENT WATERS.

AT 10:25PM LIGHTNING DETECTION, RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY DEPICTED A CLUSTER OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING ACROSS AND TOWARDS THE WARNING AREAS.

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