Response by others to speech
After reading the "Bend or Break" Speech I have had two responses that made me really wonder. The first said that Mr. Pindling was wrong to give such a speech. "But that is not what destroyed Freeport. The Hawksbill Creek Agreement is the finest development agreement every written, in my view. However, after Wallace Groves, a lack of imagination and skills, together with a relatively low bar of the concept of "success" the owners of the Port concession set about milking the local population. "If the Hawksbill Creek Agreement was being run right, Freeporters would pay nothing for Business License Fees; the profits from utilities would have been used to promote Freeport. Look at what Andrew Young Jr. did for Atlanta, that what Freeport lost with the aid of both political parties!" Very interesting concept, especially considering that to this day the Grand Bahama Port Authority says the stagnation of Freeport came because of the speech. Anothe