Baptists: We're ready to help in any way possible
LEADERS of the Baptist community say they are ready to assist storm victims “in any way possible”. Yesterday, the Bahamas Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention’s president, Rev Dr Lloyd Smith, expressed sadness and offered the assistance of
Cut off - residents unable to reach East End through flood waters
GRAND Bahama residents were desperate to get to East End yesterday to check on relatives and loved ones who they have not seen or heard from since Hurricane Dorian landed on the island.Scores of Grand Bahama residents could not get through flood wate
Haitian official: Evacuate island - there's no place to live on Abaco
HAITIAN Chargé D’Affaires Dorval Darlier has urged the Minnis administration to evacuate as many people as possible to New Providence as there is no place for them to live in Abaco. While he said the Haitian government has given him the green light
$2m from Carnival Cruise Line - and $1m from Bacardi
CARNIVAL Cruise Line’s corporate parent and its chairman have pledged a multi-million-dollar donation toward hurricane-relief for storm affected islands.The corporation’s philanthropic arm, Carnival Foundation, and its nine global cruise line brands
'Hurricane victims told to leave clinic'
SOME Hurricane Dorian victims have been pushed out of the Marsh Harbour Clinic and are being told they cannot sleep at the government complex, two of the few buildings sheltering residents in the aftermath of the storm. These were the claims of Rich
Mother and baby forced to ride out storm in car
A MOTHER and her one-year-old daughter were forced to seek refuge in their car after Dorian’s furious gusts blew off the roof of their Spring City, Abaco, home and the walls caved in all around them. Ostina Dean, who spoke with The Tribune after bein
Man blasted hole with shotgun for family to escape
A MAN had to resort to blasting the window of his home with a shotgun in order for his family to escape rising flood waters caused by Hurricane Dorian. Celeste Stubbs, an Abaco evacuee, fought back her tears yesterday as she told reporters, “We have
'All I have left is a photo of my grandson'
THE only thing Patricia Darville took with her when she was rescued from decimated Man-o-War Cay on Wednesday afternoon was a photo of her one-year-old grandson. The 74-year-old pridefully shared the photo as she recounted how she, infant Logan Thom
Aid effort picks up momentum as some Bahamians seek way out
ABACO, Bahamas (AP) — A few meager possessions stuffed in plastic bags, some of the haggard Bahamians who lost homes to the ravages of Hurricane Dorian are waiting at a small airport hoping to catch planes out of the disaster zone as an international humanitarian effort to help the Caribbean country gains momentum and the death toll has risen to 30.
Death toll may be 'staggering'
HEALTH Minister Dr Duane Sands has expressed fears that the official death toll from Hurricane Dorian could reach “staggering” proportions.
‘We witnessed Dorian from start to finish. The devastation, the bodies, the looting.’
They went in thinking they were well prepared for Hurricane Dorian - but it turned into a week of hell for the reporting team from The Tribune, trapped inside Abaco first through the passage of the deadly storm itself and then trying to find a way out of an island cut off from the outside world. Reporter RASHAD ROLLE relives his experience inside an island affected by death, destruction, looting and people trying to find a way to get through the storm.
Police sergeant saves family, six others from flood water
POLICE Sergeant Dominique McKenzie was not on duty when he sprung into rescue mode, saving not only his family, but six others from an apartment building that was overcome by rising flood water on Monday.
A rescue, a reunion and a rush to help in Dorian's aftermath
ABACO, Bahamas (AP) — When Hurricane Dorian hit Sylvia Cottis' home at a beach club in the Bahamas, the fearsome Category 5 storm blew out the supposedly hurricane-proof windows, turning the glass into razor-sharp shrapnel that opened a wide gash on her knee.
PM: 20 confirmed dead
TWENTY people have been confirmed dead as a result of Hurricane Dorian’s fury, according to Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis last night.
