Pure political grandstanding.

As a GBPA licensee I can attest that my biggest hurdle in doing business in Freeport is the Government, and its departments and ministries.

Not all licensee's will want to keep the current owners, but I can guarantee that none would prefer government control.

It has long been the feeling that the government cannot allow Freeport to succeed, the optics wouldn't look good for them.

The issue the government now faces is that they have laid their cards on the table. Any forward thinking individual can see their end game. A succesfull legal case means government take over. No private company will buy the port knowing that they face 300 million dollars of expense every 5 years.

This move will force the licensee's to stand behind the port or risk their future to the very same government that has sought to destroy them.

That “Bend or break” speech worked before.
Let the PLP keep The Assembly floor.
The Freeport economy got destroyed,
The foreign investors got annoyed;
But Ping an ‘ Dem won the election,
Promising improved political perfection.
And what worked once should work again,
With an electorate less Abel than Cain.
Stabbing your brother in the back,
Election politics right on track.

"*Davis, who was **addressing a crowd of Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) supporters** at a party branch meeting in Grand Bahama Saturday night*"

That's all we need to know, this is clearly an **election ploy**. Freeport is one small part of Grand Bahama. Why didnt the PM tell these same supporters about why the rest of the island is back in the 1920's?

Exactly.

The man responsible for East End and West End can't even do anything with them.

Sometin' new and excitin' it will trigger divine intervention for **Independents' to mingle 'freely; **Come General Election time ---- Will be seen as the largest democratic exercise since The Colony's introduction of voting by secret ballot. --- Good Day!

Brave must think he's Trump. All over the place picking fights with people.

**'The Merchants of Freeport',** don't have to wait for a Royal Proclamation of 2024 to be issued before tookin' control over their own affairs when Sir Stafford Sands, remarkable legalese, **'written under the table'** into the 1955 :Hawksbill Creek Agreement ---- Precisely provides such. --- Good Day!

It is Hubert Ingraham with his stupid grin that took the bite and the teeth out of Sir Lynden Pindling’s ‘Bend or break’ speech that got Freeport in the quagmire between the government and the GBPA today. Instead of advancing the fundamentals of the bend or break speech? Ingraham jumped in bed wholesale with the Port and joined them is calling the BaHAMAS Government and the Bahamian people the laughing stock. If the Port owes the government, then it should pay. If it doesn’t owe, then it should disqualify the claim legitimately and not brush it aside like it is a joke. And if the GBPA is not living up to its duties and responsibilities it should be given a ‘show cause’ letter and either pull up its socks or ‘push out’ Grand Bahama and , more specifically, Freeport must take advantage of this boom in the global economy to right itself. If it misseds this opportunity then it will have to endure another downturn with out having a recovery. That will make things twice as hard on Freeport Residents

When an agreement is agreed upon by organized crime, how can you expect not to become a victim? Do you all know how much 50,000 acres is with a land option of adding another 50,000 acres? No wonder the U.S. labeled us as a 'Country for Sale'. The Hawksbill Creek Agreement was a facade from its inception; a big organized crime initiative with the gist of 'development' to make it sound good, so good that when it expired in 1985 they renewed it to 2054. Only a sell-out would place a signature on that. And now you expect your chickens to roost in 2024? For too long Bahamians have been waiting on promise of running water, instead they listened to Pindling telling them its okay to use buckets, we coming with toilets for yinna soon:

This is the person/entity that the Hawksbill Creek Agreement was curated for (also remember, Sir Stafford Sands was also this man's lawyer):
Wallace Groves (c. 1901–30 January 1988) was a prominent financier and fraudster, who, after his release from federal prison in 1944, moved to the Bahamas and there founded and operated the free trade zone, resort, and casino development Freeport on Grand Bahama Island. Investigators of U.S. organized crime associate him with the Meyer Lansky syndicate operating offshore casinos from Miami Beach.

The PLP squeezed and robbed Izzy for the Chinese , now they trying to do it to GBPA ,,I wonder what crooked investor they pimping for

We'll just have to check back in another **464** years! --- A man was angered sufficiently to have chopped off a leg of Christopher Columbus statue with a sledgehammer of a man who lived **500** years ago.--- When Freeport Licensees' says they still have fond memories of a Freeport resident-man Wallace Groves.--- Memories best left untouched of a man who lived just **36** years ago. --- **They mean it.** --- Good Day!

The Government strong selling point is the beautiful township of East, West End and the suburbs of Eight Mile Rock.

LOL

"*Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell added: "We have a responsibility as leaders of the country to determine the future of Freeport when there is no longer that agreement and the better time to start thinking about is now."*"

lol. *Apr 6th 2024*, 5 years after Dorian, 3 years after COVID, 3 years after general election, 6 months after Obie's passing, 6 months after by election we ready to do miracles....

they ready to **start** thinking about what to do for Freeport. The Selling Dreams Master, the new kung fu movie coming to theatres near you.

now we know why all the trips to Africa.. getting pointers on how to run your country the Africa way... it will get you votes, but nothimg more.

If GBPA never paid any recoverable to government in SEVENTY years and owe the government $357 million in FIVE years then the GBPA can be owing the government around FOUR BILLION DOLLARS!!! And if you were to add accumulated interest over a SEVENTY-YEAR period, that amount can easily exceed TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS! That can pay off the country’s national debt with comfort.

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And if you take into consideration the thousands of acres of property given to to the Port ( Bahamian people’s Crown Land), what consideration was given to the Bahamian people in return? When the GBPA dredged Grand Bahamia to make canals, it carted off thousands of tons of ‘limestone’ that was sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. Not unlike was done in Sea Breeze and Coral Harbour. Where millions were made. What have the Bahamian people gotten in return?

Sure. Except for the fact that its a BS claim.

I’m sure BS stands for Bahamian Dollar$

What did the Bahamian people get???
Why, they got Majority Rule and the Bahamas Government pimping for Davis, Mitchell and Co. principal shareholders in the New Day Square Deal.

Sounds fishy. Does Brave hsve another investor ready to take over? He seems confident, so someinvestor may be learky in the background, say , maybe the chinese? They will complete 36 million renovation on their stadium. They maybe learking to take over the Grand Bahama investment.

Straight from the political playbook of Robert Mugabe. A proven, surefire method to make your country succeed!

> ....... Davis accused the authority of failing to follow its Hawksbill Creek Agreement obligations to maintain Freeport’s infrastructure and facilitate its growth.

Well ain't dat da pot callin' da kettle black! Davis obviously refuses to acknowedge and accept that the government he leads has not fulfilled its own obligations to maintain Nassau's infrastructure and facilitate its growth.

>He [Davis] said the government had “begun to invoice the Port Authority” to reimburse Bahamian taxpayers’ expenses in providing public infrastructure and services in Freeport.

In other words, corrupt Davis is handing out padded government contracts to his party backers and cronies, and then extorting the Port Authority to pay for the contracted goods and services. Talk about unconstitutional!!

And we all know representatives of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are waiting on the sidelines for Davis to drive down the sale price of the Port Authority to the point where they can pounce on the gifted opportunity to buy it all for pennies on the dollar with minimal commitments to do anything to help improve Freeport's infracture and the quality of life for the vast majority of suffering Grand Bahamians. Watch out Grand Bahamians - corrupt Davis wants to turnover control of Freeport to the CCP, lock, stock and barrel!!

The Ginn project was to be in Freeport bit Christie convinced them to go into West End, The development crashed! Atlantis wanted to be in Freeport but they were convinced by Hubert to go to nassau, seems any and all administrations want Freeport and the island of GB to fail.