WE NEED TO REPAIR THE EXISTING FREEPORT AIRPORT

Two and a half years into the Government’s 2021 term, the Grand Bahama International Airport remains largely in a state of disrepair.  Rex Rolle of Western Air has a brand new terminal in Freeport but the government is still seeking a builder and designer of a new airport to replace the terminals damaged by the Hurricane Dorian in 2019.  The FNM was in power when it allowed the fateful decision to  have the Grand Bahama Port Authority relieved of its responsibility to build and run an international airport.  They sold it to the government for a dollar but the government then took on the obligation to provide the airport which was and is the responsibility of the Grand Bahama Port Authority.  Now as elections come nearer and there is no new airport, the suggestion is the  Government ought to do what it did with the old domestic terminal in Freeport to allow Canadian flights to come back to Grand Bahama.  They should simply repair the old Freeport US arrivals and departure terminal.  The FNM made a mistake by not repairing it.  The result is we lost the US  pre-clearance and now we are stuck without a proper airport for US arrivals.  Perhaps we ought to simply repair the existing one and move on.