In the early 1980s, the Canadian government contributed six million US dollar for the contraction of the Point Salines International, as today known as the Maurice Bishop International Airport.
He publicly supported the Grenadian revolutionaries, who were constructing a new airport with Cuban support.
It also takes in the Maurice Bishop International Airport in Point Salines, the world famous Grand Anse beach and St. George's University.
In 1982, at the time, Mr Bishop wrote a letter to the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, if it possible to borrowed six million US dollar as a soft loan to complete the runway at Point Salines International Airport, (today known as, Maurice Bishop International Airport).
On 29 May 2009, which would have been his 65th birthday, Grenada's international airport (formerly Point Salines International Airport) was renamed Maurice Bishop International Airport.
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He initiated a number of projects, most significantly, the building of a new international airport on the island's southern tip (that in May 2009 was renamed in his memory).
The seizure of the airfield allowed United States Air Force C-141 transport planes to land and unload paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division.
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The American justification for the invasion was the threat to American medical students at St. George's University, whose campus is a short distance from the airport.
The peninsula at the south-western tip of Saint George is called Point Salines, and Grenada's only active airport, Maurice Bishop International Airport, is located here.
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