Lead Editor of the Investigative Desk Mark Bassant and Senior cameraman Timothy Chasteau spent a week in the Bahamas. During that time, they captured some compelling images of the devastation on the island of Abacos and The Grand Bahama.
Amongst the devastation, desperation and hopelessness lies the resilience of the Bahamian people.
Three weeks ago to this date, they were pummelled by Hurricane Dorian which left nothing but death and mayhem behind. Thousands on the islands of the Abacos and The Grand Bahama faced a trail of destruction incomprehensible to many.
After Providence, Abacos is The Bahamas second-largest economy followed by the Grand Bahama.
Homeless and hungry, many were taken into makeshift shelters in the country's capital of Nassau, located on the island of Providence, where they still remain. They are faced with another challenge of living conditions and trying to pick up the pieces as they seek employment.
But in spite of the devastation, the Bahamian people show they are resolute and optimistic.
"Abacos will rise again and so will Grand Bahama," businessman Vado Bootle said as he surveyed the damage in Abacos's capital of Marsh Harbour.
His sentiment was echoed by another man rummaging the ruins a short distance down the road. "It will take us some time but I know we'll be back again," he said with a broad smile.
An old lady portrays stoicism as she surveys her flattened home for the first time in almost two weeks in the village of Pelican Point in Grand Bahama. "What can I do? I guess I'm going to rebuild. I have lived here for 50 years and this is the only place I know as home."
In the village—High Rock in Grand Bahama—a faded Bahamian flag on a steel square is still firmly bolted to the wall of a house with its roof blown off.
A villager in High Rock pedals his bicycle slowly along the road near the seafront. He is wearing one of the few items of clothing he was able to salvage—a white vest with the Bahamian flag plastered proudly on the front.
Most of the damage was not only brought about by the gale-force winds and driving rain but by brutal mini-tornadoes that tossed Sealand containers like feathers more than a mile inland from the Abacos seaport.