The newly named Lynden Pindling International Airport will become the jewel of the Caribbean and the envy of the region when it undergoes a multimillion-dollar expansion, Minister of Transport and Aviation Glenys Hanna-Martin declared on Thursday at an historic ceremony marking the renaming of Nassau International Airport.

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Could you call it something other than a "gateway"...
Hows about calling it what it is.
:)

Id rather they call it Christie's Intl Airport ....:jawdroop:

or pudgies ///

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/cay.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/bahamas/index.html?s=oldest&



In the late 70s, the Lehder-Jung partnership began to diverge, due to some combination of Lehder's megalomania, Jung's comparative lack of ambition, and Lehder's secret scheming to secure a personal Bahamanian island as a complete all-purpose headquarters for his operations.

That island was Norman's Cay, which at that point consisted of a marina, a yacht club, approximately 100 private homes, and an air strip. In 1978, Lehder began buying up property and harassing and threatening the island's residents. At one point, a yacht was found drifting off the coast with the corpse of one of its owners aboard.

As Lehder chased away the local population and began to assume total control of the island, Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, believed to have taken massive amounts of money in bribes from Lehder and associates, did nothing. Norman's Cay became Lehder's lawless private fiefdom. By this time, George Jung had been forced out of the operation, and international criminal financier Robert Vesco had allegedly become a partner. Jung used his prior connections to take up a more modest line of independent smuggling for Escobar, and stayed out of Lehder's way.

From 1978 through 1982, the Cay was the Caribbean's main drug smuggling hub and a tropical hideaway and playground for Lehder and associates. Cocaine was flown in from Colombia by jet and then reloaded into the small aircraft that then distributed it to locations in Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas.

Lehder built a 3,300-foot runway protected by radar, bodyguards and Doberman attack dogs for the fleet of aircraft under his command. In the glory days of his operation, 300 kilograms of cocaine would arrive on the island every hour of every day, and Lehder's personal wealth mounted into the billions.

I am curious as to why they have not placed sir in front of his name in the naming of the airport, is it because in abbreviation will be SLOPIA pronounced sloppy aye.....:gi: :bigmouth: :D

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/cay.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/bahamas/index.html?s=oldest&
In the late 70s, the Lehder-Jung partnership began to diverge, due to some combination of Lehder's megalomania, Jung's comparative lack of ambition, and Lehder's secret scheming to secure a personal Bahamanian island as a complete all-purpose headquarters for his operations.
That island was Norman's Cay, which at that point consisted of a marina, a yacht club, approximately 100 private homes, and an air strip. In 1978, Lehder began buying up property and harassing and threatening the island's residents. At one point, a yacht was found drifting off the coast with the corpse of one of its owners aboard.
As Lehder chased away the local population and began to assume total control of the island, Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, believed to have taken massive amounts of money in bribes from Lehder and associates, did nothing. Norman's Cay became Lehder's lawless private fiefdom. By this time, George Jung had been forced out of the operation, and international criminal financier Robert Vesco had allegedly become a partner. Jung used his prior connections to take up a more modest line of independent smuggling for Escobar, and stayed out of Lehder's way.
From 1978 through 1982, the Cay was the Caribbean's main drug smuggling hub and a tropical hideaway and playground for Lehder and associates. Cocaine was flown in from Colombia by jet and then reloaded into the small aircraft that then distributed it to locations in Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas.
Lehder built a 3,300-foot runway protected by radar, bodyguards and Doberman attack dogs for the fleet of aircraft under his command. In the glory days of his operation, 300 kilograms of cocaine would arrive on the island every hour of every day, and Lehder's personal wealth mounted into the billions.


:uh:

This is the same reason why I said call this topic something other than "gateway"...
It would have only led to somehting like this.

This is no good....the days are gone, and it only tarnishes what ever good legacy ping had.
jmo.

I am curious as to why they have not placed sir in front of his name in the naming of the airport, is it because in abbreviation will be SLOPIA pronounced sloppy aye.....:gi: :bigmouth: :D

man changing the name of that airport was a bad idea...

fly lopia...flopia!

:uh:


believed in the same context as how we believe we have the best service in the world, or we believe we have decent roads, we believe we have law and order .. LOL .. in any event .. if he didnt take the money, he was still a useless leader .. as then that means he sat back and let the drug dealers go wild on the country, not to mention what the gov employees did to wreck this country under his leadership .. and made us all look like idiots and for sale for any money .. drug dealers said Bahamians were just so easy to buy it made sense to "take over" the Bahamas .. and certainly has been the same since then (PLP-FNM-PLP) ... Hmmmmm .. some legacy // LOL // I lived through his so called "legacy" and it was a bunch of BS ...though the FNM wasnt perfect they "were" the best thing to hit the country in 20 years (ok maybe off a year or 2 but yah get the point i hope) .. .. Isnt it enough that his face was on all the school books ..?? The Drug trade killed many many Bahamians, a couple i know personally who were executed in the late 80's ... thanks King Ping .. yah really looked out foe yoh peeps ..

believed in the same context as how we believe we have the best service in the world, or we believe we have decent roads, we believe we have law and order .. LOL .. in any event .. if he didnt take the money, he was still a useless leader .. as then that means he sat back and let the drug dealers go wild on the country, not to mention what the gov employees did to wreck this country under his leadership .. and made us all look like idiots and for sale for any money .. drug dealers said Bahamians were just so easy to buy it made sense to "take over" the Bahamas .. and certainly has been the same since then (PLP-FNM-PLP) ... Hmmmmm .. some legacy // LOL

preach!!!!!!!!!!!!

let the church say amen!

Its the S.L.O.P intl to bahamians and the rest of the world!

believed in the same context as how we believe we have the best service in the world, or we believe we have decent roads, we believe we have law and order .. LOL .. in any event .. if he didnt take the money, he was still a useless leader .. as then that means he sat back and let the drug dealers go wild on the country, not to mention what the gov employees did to wreck this country under his leadership .. and made us all look like idiots and for sale for any money .. drug dealers said Bahamians were just so easy to buy it made sense to "take over" the Bahamas .. and certainly has been the same since then (PLP-FNM-PLP) ... Hmmmmm .. some legacy // LOL // I lived through his so called "legacy" and it was a bunch of BS ...though the FNM wasnt perfect they "were" the best thing to hit the country in 20 years (ok maybe off a year or 2 but yah get the point i hope) .. .. Isnt it enough that his face was on all the school books ..?? The Drug trade killed many many Bahamians, a couple i know personally who were executed in the late 80's ... thanks King Ping .. yah really looked out foe yoh peeps ..


tell that to frankie wilson! you didnt hear him today hey?

tell that to frankie wilson! you didnt hear him today hey?


maan i dont check for that stuff... today i was too busy sharpening my machete and shining my bat .. :hammer:

I totally agree with this renameing of nassau int'l airport,L.O.P int'l airport.
it is good for the country and the future genration that comes along to remember the Bahamas first Bahamian PM.but it is in need of major repair,so i hope they get it done.

"The issue reached a dramatic crescendo on Black Tuesday—April 27, 1965. On that day, a debate on the redistricting question in the House of Assembly had again ended with white representatives stating that they were unwilling to consider reapportioning the seats fairly. Pindling, by then one of the PLP's assembly members, rose at the end of the debate to state that he did not want to be part of a government that did not represent its people fairly. Declaring that the true authority belonged outside with the people, Pindling took the wooden mace that had been the symbol of parliamentary authority in the Bahamas for 165 years and threw it out the window, where it broke in half in the middle of the crowd that had gathered outside. The act was predictably met with shock and charges of blasphemy by white assembly members, but the drama reflected the changing tide in Bahamian politics. Two years later a new redistricting act was finally approved, and when the PLP finally won a majority in the April 1967 general election, Pindling became the country's first black prime minister. In a general election held in September 1972, Bahamians voted to support a petition for independence, and in May and June 1973 the British House of Commons and House of Lords, respectively, voted to accept it. On July 10, 1973, the Bahamas became an independent country."

Give that man his airport.