Good thinking Proudtobefnm.

First you must pull up satellite images or flood zone risk map, googlemaps, and look at the coastline to see possible route to put dam or embankment or rubble wall or reinforced elevated dam. Nassau Harbour was dredged years ago and fill funnelled to enlarge Kelly Island or Bahamas Customs Area. Bimini created dock space. Numbers of maps ariel view in Nassau have ocean shores dig up for fill. Nygard Cay was built uo into acreage from other areas.
Looking at iariel sland maps gives other vantage points to consider for options.
What seems to be in the mix are experts one political party has their solution, another has another.They all have limited budgets and each wants to have the stop and review of the other. Quality or half baked, or irregularities exist in projects like half mountain graded down and no clinic, huge hospital clinic for Cat Island cancelled by present side, huge baseball stadium built without key functional parts started around 9M now going on some 50M, subdivision works now in litigation, waste treatment plant Gladstone Rd some 2x costs, further down road old former Supermarket bought and then discovered not suitable for post office, sea walls not up to standatds contractor dismissed, school built inferior too expensive to redone, airport built reeded longer runway and structure needing more works..all hired and done by qualified experts costing hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars and less benefit in cases to population and on and on...I believe a govt member recently has some acquiring the Airport and I believe shoring up areas to minimize flooding.
Grand Bahama has one of the designed cities in the Caribbean and should be fully supported in works to keep the engine Freeport employing people. Regretably over the years dozens of businesses closed, thousands of residents left, hundreds thousands pf jobs no more. Many of us were the innovators, employers, created hundreds of jobs but no longer exists in GB.

Proudfnm, should have the GB experts have a look at Holland and its success in surviving best flooding. Some of the US areas have some Dutch designers working with them. Thanks Proud fnm for your interest in having vision in improving GB and lives of its residents.

This crossing has been increasing challenged by strong force hurricane currents and creates hardships to residents when roadway is flooded.

For decades the political groups have made it political points dilly dallying over bridge solution to better residents lives. Lots of valuable political governance could have moreso taken place over host of over challenges to better the lives of Bahamian residents and businesses on this island. Right to safe reliable roadways is not politics.

The causeway or bridge joins the vital roadway over a waterway which has been blocked a short distance upstream which just goes nowhere. The bridge is at a bottleneck position and has around some 5 current inlets from the ocean funnelling large volume of water to this bridge point. And from blocked water path just past the bridge water builds up and flooding.

The geography of the area needs to be studied. The bottleneck should be just filled in as the blockage just causes water to pile up until water goes over lowest embankment. Little value if bridge is highest but surrounding land including road is flooded. A possible solution seems to be dredging coastline and creating embankments, dams to protect Airport straight past Queens Cove and further down. Seems the low gradient coast same side needs building enbankment to reduce flooding and danger to businesses in area. Another view would be the open up blocked channel by bridge and build up banks of channel to have water flushed out from one side of island to other side vise versa reducing water build up at bridge point.

True, true. But those in the First Class Cabins with occupants wearing both colours always get the seats in the few available lifeboats.

Another Bahamian delegation to visit to see King Leopold ll grand Palaces and Africa Congo Museum and Art depiction statues??? Totally disgusting to have official Bahamian running back and forth last 20 years to negotiate in King Leopold ll built surroundings to the dictates and questions on EU Blacklisting.

The good Minister refers to "parents" and "guardians" plural. In reality many children are brought up by single parent generally young women or basically children having babies. Many children cannot manners lil children when they themselves cannot impart what they don't know.

"A lot of people are in extended status and are getting NIB benefits. We would've been in plenty, plenty, plenty trouble."

Largest ever workers have not been working at their jobs with their Employers a
Eriod ago where the Employment deemed ended and govt artifically changed.

The govt guy fails to understand who is signing the cheques that the jobless workers arereceiving and which entity has been signing these benefit cheques ....and...further artifically extended the extended NIB payments to workers no longer going to their 9 to 5 jobs.

Mr. Pinder as so many other govt officials should not miss up with the Nations people money as contributers in NIB in getting unemployment benefits bearing NIB signature and not the workers Company 9 to 5 job etc and bearing Company cheque name for renumeration for work done.

......and thds.....affects interactions with other businesses. Jitney owners have to repay loans at banks.....pays govt vehicle inspections and tax.....jitneys deal with mechanics...uses diesel on which Govt gets a chunk of taxes....and all other businesses operating have to operating at volumes to break even pay rent to premises owners ...and on and on....

Remember years ago Porcupine, on photo of old Chamberlain house, little house by the Ferry, Green Turtle Cay later owned by Dr. Kendrick. The Andros connection is the Chamberlain failed Sisal Plantation seems Mastic Point lost a lot of money. There are other stories probably questionable of some investment in Mayaguana.

Thank you Porcupine for your better views on the location of Harbour.

The Nation has been within one of the top 10 most expensive countries in the world to live in the last years and there must be some means to find ways to cut these costs charged and being such a short distance away from the main importer of goods.

There must be ways forward for a better future for the nation to survive.

Developing Harbour and Airport towards western coast of Andros lessens transportation route of lifeline of Goods from Miami to Nassau by some 50 miles going anf 50 miles coming back.

The shorter transportation route between Miani and western Andros coast gains synergies in less transportation costs fuel, manhours, shipping costs, refrigeration costs, perishable goods lifespan. Given the shorter transportation route likely have more cargo and transport vessels in competition lowering prices. Businesses can also develop with suitable tax incentives offered and supporting those will axcilliary businesses supporting those. Somewhere along the future could even be the moving of the Capitol of the nation and roadway from Nicholls to Mars point and ferry stations to other ferry stations to eastern islands across Tongue of the ocean. Lots of possibilities.