Who will solve the riddle of Grand Freeport's future ... Can only be answered **by the natives rising up answering a call to reverse how 67 years ago** ... How their lands were tiefed ... Satisfying Sir Stafford and Wallace Groves greedy pockets ― Yes?

Take a history course!! Population prior to Hawksbill Agreement was minimal.

It is the ghost of Sir Lynden Pindling in action. He put a curse on Freeport and it will never come back!!

Pindlings bend or break, not Stafford
Sands

@ComradeTrueTrue, I'm coming back at you, ... So was/remains fall in lap Lynden Oscar Pindling for all years of void and lies that to this day fills Grand Freeport ... August 26, 2022, **marks 22 years** anniversary since English trained barrister LOP the barrister left us too early passing **with a net worth but approximately $1.5 Million** ― Yes?

@Tal,
"August 26, 2022, marks 22 years anniversary since English trained barrister LOP the barrister left us too early passing with a net worth but approximately $1.5 Million ― Yes?"

And if you believe that, I have some prime swamp land in West End you can have at a bargain - Yes?

The Island is flat, not suitable for development. If your buildings get destroyed all the time you cant make a stable economy/industry. Abaco, Andros, Eleuthera, Exuma, and even Inagua have a clearer direction.

The only thing the island looks suitable for is logging and marine farming.

Doesn’t Nassau have roughly the same topography?

Should be branded as the last (non)functioning example of a Colonial Plantation.
Seriously though, Sir Lynden was a young lawyer who helped Sir Stafford take land from the Natives, few they may have been. (Williams Town for a start)
Bend or Break was for the consumption of the masses, Obviously still works.
Like the supposed gate to EMR myth, which was actually a Customs checkpoint, to prevent all the tax free materials exiting Freeport. It did well for riling everyone up at the time though.
Want more interesting facts? I will warn you though, it may undermine your heroes.

The present Hayward & St.George inheritors of the GBPA are as greedy, myopic and selfish as the Bahamian stooges who they have "running" the GBPA. The vision of Freeport died with the fathers & Ingraham. The HW monster just hastened the demise of GBPA.

The present GBPA owners are not interested in major long term investment, just sucking whatever little profit is left in Freeport and sending it overseas.

@CcomradeSheepRunner12. most Grand Freeporters' living today popoulaces are not in sync how back 67 years a recently released jailed conman's named Wallace Groves, was granted by Sir Stafford, 50,000 acres of the natives land with an option of adding additional 50,000 acres be administered under agreement with The Grand Freeport Plantation Authority (GFPA). The GFPA was created to birth and administer the plantation's free lands and thus the City of Grand Freeport was conceived. To encourage investment, the agreement allowed the plantation authority not to pay taxes on income, capital gains, real estate, and private property until 1985 — a provision that extended the agreement a further 49 years. This has since been extended to the year 2054 ...Of which in the year 2022 ... **Some sixty+ percent GFPA  granted vast acreages lands for a modest payment of but $1 Sand Dollar** ... To this very day the acreages turned and sold as individual lots, remain either unsold or not deeded due failure of payments - Yes?

Ingraham had his hooks in the Families as much as any other, and they had theirs in him also.
Once Wallace Groves was ousted the writing was on the wall.
Took a long time to circle the drain as there was much to pillage and re-structure.