NASSAU, Bahamas – Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has said he is thankful that no one had been killed when Hurricane Irene swept through The Bahamas earlier this week, causing widespread damage.
“As we assess the damage caused by the storm and move to provide assistance and restore our damaged homes, businesses, churches and public infrastructure, we can all say, ‘to God be the glory for the great things He has done,’” Ingraham said in a radio and television broadcast last night.
The Prime Minister said that 1, 016 people had sought refuse at hurricane shelters and that most of them had returned to their homes.
“The Ministry of Health has given every assurance that all community health clinics around the country have adequate supplies of medications and that they will continue to be properly and adequately supplied in the weeks and months ahead.”
Ingraham said the various essential services were undertaking the tasks of repairing the damages done by Hurricane Irene which he described as “a big and dangerous storm and we are especially fortunate to have sustained damage primarily to vegetation and to structures”.
The Prime Minister said preliminary indications are that serious structural damage was sustained by government offices, clinics, schools, police stations, and other infrastructure facilities including public docks in Coopers Town and Moores Island, Abaco and in George Town Exuma as well as to private dwellings and businesses. (CMC)
