(EDITOR’S NOTE: When this proposal was first made by noted attorney Alfred Sears in June of this year, I thought it was an excellent idea and I still do. Thanks to my friend Joseph Darville for sharing this brilliant suggestion on Facebook that was first published in EYEWITNESS NEWS. I am bringing it to the attention of readers of BAHAMAS CHRONICLE with the hope that it is widely read.)
EXCERPT FROM THIS EXCELLENT PROPOSAL: Nassau, the political capital as well as the financial and commercial capital of The Bahamas, lacks the space to build out a modern political capital architecture to meet current and future needs, population growth and sustainable living for the next 50 plus years. This critical infrastructural crisis in the public administration gives The Bahamas a unique opportunity to transform itself.
The Bahamas can use this need as an opportunity to create, for the first time since Independence, an internal stimulus for economic growth, by exercising the Bahamian sovereign imagination and political will, through the construction of a new purpose-built political capital city on the Island of Andros.
Brazil, in 1980, constructed a purpose-built capital city of Brasilia where it relocated its Legislative, Judicial and Executive Branches of the Federal Government from the old coastal capital city of Rio de Janeiro. Brasilia is now Brazil’s third most populous city with the highest GDP per capita. Brasilia, designed by Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Joaquim Cardozo, with the Hotel Sector, Banking Sector and the Embassy Sector, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its modernistic architecture and unique urban planning. It has played an unprecedented role in the development of the interior of Brazil and has been designated as the City of Design by UNESCO in October 2017 and part of the Creative Cities Network since then. Brasilia was built in 41 months. See BAHAMAS CHRONICLE at https://ewnews.com/new-political-capital-city-of-the-bahamas-in-andros?fbclid=IwAR14E2LhS8jFfm9KD4bwY7Ebp5Iymjh5UKjt0y8TqiPyFav-Ohc8ojSurtY
