Years later, Spanish authorities built a presidio at the same location.

The authority is building an $800 million terminal that will increase the number of gates from 54 to 84 by 1993.

The authority would build the stadium with a proposed $185 million state bond.

But the authorities, those secretive arms of the state government, have built walls to protect themselves from the public and even the Legislature.

In the 1890s the local authorities built the first sea wall.

After the 1991 coup, the military authorities built a paved highway - the only one in Haiti - between the two points.

It took multiple violent protests to get the authorities to finally build the new schools 3 years after they were promised.

The authority builds new schools and oversees repairing the city's 1,100 public school buildings.

Local authorities build hospitals to boost their own prestige, regardless of whether the decision is really justified.

In 1978 local authorities built 64,500 houses for tenants throughout the country.