Flipping Grand Bahama

Sixty years after the signing of the Hawksbill Creek Agreement, the original signatories are dead. The man with the vision for Freeport was the first to go and apparently his vision with him. It was a vision for a thriving community based on the Hawksbill Creek and the formation of a harbour. As was the rush for gold there was a rush to this island during 1950s to 70s of people looking for another home that offered an ability to make a new life for their families. This was short lived and many had to return to homes they were hoping to forget or other places where there communities were more welcoming. During the first ten years of the Hawksbill Creek Agreement, the Government of The Bahamas kept a keen eye on what the Grand Bahama Port Authority was doing and made several demands in writing to steer the ship not only for a better Freeport, but a better Bahamas. After 1965, there seems to be a lack to Government involvement in the public arena until 1993 when a new amendment ...

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 ...