Inhabitants of Grand Bahama were caught off guard yesterday (29/03/2010) when a lethal tornado ransacked portions of the island. Three people have been reported dead and several others injured who were employed at the Freeport Container Port. Already plagued by a sluggish economy and two deadly hurricanes further infrastructural damages have occurred, this time causing damages to at least 6 container cranes and a number of buildings. Without a doubt the infrastructural injuries to the container port will operate at a reduced capacity which may also result in reduced wages for its workers. And as the political fingers find their way to find fault, lawyers secretly dabble with words such as ‘foresight’, ‘causation’, ‘remoteness’ and other legal gobbledygook.

Sadly, fortune seems to have walked away from the country’s second major city, with hotel closures, high unemployment levels, and manufacturing companies opening and closing due to the island’s elevated energy costs. Low lying areas of the island have been prone to constant storm surges and flooding, and every year the island’s inhabitants brace themselves for the hurricane season more so than those living in the central and southern islands. Rest assure however, when they figure out how to kick start the island’s industrial engines you will be sure to see a more prosperous report roaring out of the future Caribbean tiger.

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