Flipping Grand Bahama

If you thank we cannot fix it, then I implore you to take a step back and let those who think we can fix it step forward. Even if its just one person who feels it can be fixed can make a fix that will affect all others. Now, how to fix it. Well look at the problem and see where we can make changes. Research on the island took me to a site called Grand Bahama Future blog. It felt like a ghost town left with the wind blowing. It has been abandoned. It takes more people seeing it and making posts. I took at look at what Wikipedia had to say about Grand Bahama's economy and found this snippet, " Tourism is the mainstay of the island's economy. The resort area at Port Lucaya and visits by cruise ships provide the bulk of this activity. Grand Bahama's tourism sector is complemented by the BORCO oil bunkering facility owned by Buckeye , [ 6 ] the South Riding Point oil storage and transhipment terminal owned by Statoil , [ 7 ] and a transshipment / container p...

The old pain of Grand Bahama has been explored and brought up a lot of unpleasantness. What it has not done is made anyone come up with more ideas of how to fix the problems. As I have said before, it's not just about the Government. It's not just a Port issue. It's an everyday people issue. Things change when people change and we are changing all the time.... so let's make an effort to all change for the better! I remember a few years ago I was listening to a speaker at a conference talking about a country to exemplify as it spoke of Singapore. The speaker (whom unfortunately I cannot recall at this time) spoke of how the country decided what sort of jobs and professions that they would need in the future and through the education system steering the students in those directions. With a concerted effort they changed their country for the best. I heard this speech and was inspired because I was thinking here is the answer to a perplexing question posed every year ...