Happy birthday/anniversary to the Hawksbill Creek Agreement
Yesterday the Hawksbill Creek Agreement was signed 60 years ago in Freeport Grand Bahama and is found in Chapters 261-265 & 30 of Statute Laws of The Bahamas. How is this being celebrated? I guess its not much of a mile stone because there seems to be no big hoopla. I'm told that the Grand Bahama Port Authority which came from the HCA is celebrating with cake and champagne for customers/clients who come in. But 60 years ago the agreement began with the words was, "An act to authorize the entering into of an agreement with a company to be incorporated in the Colony by Wallace Groves for the dredging of a deep water harbour and the establishment of an industrial area at an in the vicinity of Hawksbill Creek, Grand Bahama. It was signed by His Excellency The Right Honourable The Earl of Ranfurly Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over The Bahama Island, and the Grand Bahama Port Authority, a company incorporated under the laws of The Bahama Islands. At that time ...