GRAND BAHAMA, The Bahamas — While the Ministry of Education and Technical and Vocational Training is focused on the improvement to, and in some cases the redevelopment of, schools across the nation, officials are taking a moment to savour the excitement and pride of the students and faculty at the newly reopened McLean’s Town Primary School located at the far east end of Grand Bahama Island.
Decimated in September 2019 when monster Hurricane Dorian unleashed its full wrath on the northern Bahamas, the quaint campus and school building now has a fresh, new look complete with metal roofing, hurricane impact windows and a reinforced seawall.
An added feature is the locale of the Met Office’s weather station on the school’s grounds.
In the five years since Dorian’s onslaught, students from East End had to be bussed to Freeport in …