Arawak Homes, FOCOL and now this company jack`s Bay. Tommy Turnquest represents only the interest of his father and his family in this company. It was the late Sir Lynden Pindling who proposed this partnership, I was told. This is not the first agreement signed for this project. The media should ask itself what was the first agreement. What are the new conditions and concessions of this new agreement? Seeing this image gives me hope. Minnis is as cynical as anyone else, so the heads of the deal must be bulletproof. I like the fact that they`re not trying to create a hotel that employs a few hundred people for a year or two, just to close when people move permanently. “With the Jack`s Bay project, the Disney project and other developments on the horizon, Eleuthera, including South Eleuthera, is on the verge of an economic renaissance,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said at the signing ceremony at the cabinet office. “This project, along with others, will contribute to the recovery of our national economy from the COVID-19 pandemic.
This project has been underway for a long time and is a unique Bahamian experience, including Bahamian owners and a team of predominantly Bahamian leaders. “Given the economic situation of The Greater Bahama, we could not, in good conscience, allow the total closure of the land. As we said at the time, our intention was to privatize the property as soon as possible. NASSAU, Bahamas, September 4, 2020 – The Government of the Bahamas today entered into an agreement with Eleuthera Properties Ltd. on the development of the Jack`s Bay resort, the golf course and the South Eleuthera marina project. Sir Franklyn Wilson and M. O.A. T. `Tommy` Turnquest represented Eleuthera Properties Ltd. Minnis found that Royal Caribbean Cruise Line and ITM Group, which call themselves Bahamas Ports International, share the government`s vision and have decided to invest in the future and long-term sustainability of Grand Bahama. There is no document in the world that is less valuable than a Bahamian “Heads of Agreement”.
There are dozens of heads of agreements for projects on Eleuthera that were never built. Dozens. Each of them came with the same windy, glorious promises, empty of promises from politicians and developers. This is just another. I`d love to see some evidence of how Amazon invested in this property with Franklyn Wilson. Bullshyte. Sir Orville Turnquest and Sir Franklyn Wilson have been partners since the mid-70s. They were together in many cases….