It's your land and you deserve a piece now!
THE FACTS
What can possibly be the reason for our Prime Minister to refuse to tell people how many applications have been made, who have made them and for where?
ABOUT YOUR CROWN LAND
Almost 1400 years ago the first Crown Grant was issued for the Islands of the Bahamas which we know and enjoy today as our home, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
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On November 1st 1670 the Bahama Islands was granted by Charles 1st to the Lord Proprietors of the North Carolinas.
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Although basically left unclaimed it would be the Puritans who were expelled from Bermuda who arrived under the leadership of Captain William Sayle in 1640 to settle the Island of Eleuthera. Disagreement amongst the early settlers would bring Sayle and his loyal crew to the Island of New Providence, once called Sayle’s Island.
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That was in the 17th century…Imagine that.
THE HARD TRUTH
Crown Land for Bahamians (CLB) has been established to systematically address issues relating to crown land in the country for the first time in the nation’s history.
Governments have not formally responded to more than 30,000 crown land grant applications
CLB intends to highlight the perversion of foreign developers being given crown land for nothing whereas there are thousands and thousands of Bahamians who have for decades applied for crown land and have not even had the courtesy of a response.
Fast forward to the 20th century. The ruling and governing forces of this country shared the Crown Land among themselves. Huge parcels of Crown Land were deeded as Gifts to Legislators with the names Symonette, Baker, and Kelly… check the records for yourselves.
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The City we know today as Freeport on the Island of Grand Bahama shared up in the Hawksbill Creek Agreement and the development of the Grand Bahama Port Authority.
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Even with the historic attainment of Majority Rule or our First Black Cabinet Government, the drive to give Crown Grants to the ordinary Bahamian is nonexistent.
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A few or a handful of Crown Grants of small parcels of land of less than Five (acres) to individual farmers with huge and stringent stipulations that they only hold a lease and are restricted from any number of sustainable developmental ideas and programmes.