The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

The Hong Kong-based firm, Hutchison Whampoa, has opened a container port in Freeport.

Snow has been reported to have mixed with rain in Freeport in January 1977, the same time that it snowed in the Miami area.

This includes the Junction 32 Outlet village ( formerly known as Freeport ) and Xscape leisure complex, Europe's largest indoor real snow slope, which has turned the periphery of the town in to one of the most popular destinations for UK skiing and snowboarding.

For instance, International Falls, Minnesota markets itself as a site for sub-zero temperature experiments, Ottawa, Illinois has attracted three Japanese firms, Freeport, Maine has become a center for mail-order companies such as L. L. Bean, and Mobile, Arizona has become the home of a number of solid-waste landfills.

Two-thirds of the 300, 000 Bahamians live on New Providence, although this proportion has fallen somewhat with the development of Freeport on Grand Bahama.

Although no clear connection has ever been asserted, Holman's title and character name also could have been a nod toward the ubiquitous stationary engine manufactured by the Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company of Freeport, Illinois.

Since 1973, Freeport has operated the world's largest gold mine, located in Indonesia's Papua province.

The large Freeport gold / copper mining operation has been active for decades to the west and north of the park but is not active inside the park boundaries.

Construction has been completed just north of Freeport that re-routes US 331 around the eastern edge of the town and connecting with the current US 331 again at the intersection of State Road 20 just east of Freeport.

With the decline in the size of the fleet, most of the dock complex has subsequently been converted to a marina and the adjacent " Freeport " shopping village.

While a freeze has never been reported in the Bahamas, snow was reported to have mixed with rain in Freeport in January 1977, the same time that it snowed in the Miami area.

The real writer of the poems is widely believed to be Kent Johnson, professor of Highland Community College in Freeport, Illinois, though he has never claimed authorship.

Blade's hunt for Manero leads him to new locations of Freeport City that were not included in the original game, features new enemies and weapons, and has such interesting story / gameplay elements as the kidnapping of a scientist's daughter and day / night scenarios of the same levels, depending on the player's choice.

98. 5 ( KTJM ) based in Houston, broadcasts to Spanish-speaking audiences in Houston, Port Arthur and has a translator station on ( KJOJ ) 103. 3 for the Freeport area.

He has also served in the News Departments of radio stations WGBB ( Freeport, New York ), WHN ( New York ), WINS ( New York ) and WKJY ( Hempstead, New York ).

However, by 1929, that population had grown to 3, 500, and to 4, 100 by 1939, influencing a steady increase of economic expansion in Freeport.

The city of Freeport emerged from a land grant comprising of swamp and scrub to become a cosmopolitan centre.

Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama, was established as a free trade zone in the 1950s and became the country's second city.

To the North is the island of Grand Bahama, home to the second largest city in the country, Freeport.

His second wife was Anna Hostetter Haldeman, the widow of a miller in Freeport.

The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois.

While at Freeport High School Rupp started William " Mose " Mosely, the first African-American to play basketball at Freeport and the second to graduate from the school.

As of June 2009, the only remaining Cub Foods stores in Illinois which are still owned by SuperValu are one store in Peoria ( a second store in Midtown Plaza in Peoria closed in March 2009 after just six-and-a-half years of operation ) and one store in Freeport.

The Bahamian Parliament approved legislation in 1993 that extended most Freeport tax and duty exemptions through 2054.

Original inhabitants of the area between Parsonage Creek near Oceanside and Milburn Creek near Freeport were Native Americans known as Merokes, or Merrick, an Algonquian tribe indigenous to most of the South Shore of Long Island, who lived in two villages along Milburn Creek.

It is most well known, though, from Nassau and Freeport.

Through downtown Sacramento, SR 16 followed U. S. 40 ( Legislative Route 6 ) and U. S. 50 ( Legislative Route 11 ), mostly on Capitol Avenue, while Legislative Route 50 continued south on 5th Street ( later a one-way pair of 3rd and 5th Streets ) and turned east on Broadway, carrying Sign Route 24 most of the way to Freeport Boulevard.

The Hawksbill Creek Agreement established a duty-free zone in Freeport, The Bahamas ' second-largest city, with a nearby industrial park to encourage foreign industrial investment.

The city of Freeport, located inside the Triangle, operates a major shipyard and an airport that handles 50, 000 flights annually and is visited by over a million tourists a year.

The protagonist of the game, colonel John R. Blade, is the commander of one of the largest security forces in the city of Freeport, HardCorps.

The player reprises the role of John Blade, and the story picks up after the conclusion of the main game, pitting the player against Gianni Manero, a notorious crime boss looking to take over Freeport city.

Freeport is a city in Walton County, Florida, United States.

High Street, which runs through the historic downtown is the primary east – west route through the village and Main Street, which intersects High Street at its highest point, becomes Freeport Road and leads to the city of Freeport.

Freeport is a city in Harper County, Kansas, United States.

Freeport is a city in Brazoria County, Texas within the Houston – Sugar Land – Baytown metropolitan area and is situated in Southeast Texas.

The Dow Chemical Company is the major employer in Freeport, and the city is home to the company's largest integrated site.

It began when Texan insurgents attacked Fort Velasco, located in what was then Velasco and what is now the present day city of Freeport.

The former naval base adjacent to the city became the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in 1992.

As Delia dissipated another depression formed in the same region, eventually making landfall in the same city as Delia, Freeport, Texas.

About a mile ( 1. 5 km ) beyond the Freeport Bridge, SR 160 leaves the levee, enters the city of Sacramento ( where state maintenance and control ends ), passes under I-5, and farms give way to suburbs.

The Bazaar, a trading zone which in essence allowed player characters to act as NPC merchants, is also credited with causing massive " mudflation " and damage to both the in-game economy and to the social networking and role-playing that often occurred in player-run bazaar areas such as the North Freeport Bank or the East Commonlands tunnel, where characters had previously congregated to buy and sell goods with all the efficiency of a third-world city market.

However the island finally gained a stable source of income when in 1955 a Virginian financier named Wallace Groves began redevelopment with the Bahamian government to build the city of Freeport under the Hawksbill Creek Agreement and create the Grand Bahama Port Authority Soon after, the ambitious Edward St. George, with the financial help of Sir Jack Hayward, took the company to new frontiers.

* Freeport is the major city of Grand Bahama.

Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone located on the island of Grand Bahama of the North-west Bahamas.

The city is often promoted as " Freeport / Lucaya ".

The Overlord of Freeport, Lucan D ' Lere, a centuries-old fallen paladin, ( who was oddly enough a warrior trainer as well as Leader of the city in EQ1 ) rules the evil races in his plans of conquest.