Eighteenth-century governors tried to tackle the island's problems by planting trees, improving fortifications, eliminating corruption, building a hospital, tackling the neglect of crops and livestock, controlling the consumption of alcohol and introducing legal reforms.
Os gobernadores do século XVIII trataron de abordar os problemas da illa mediante a introdución de plantación de árbores, a mellora das fortificacións, a eliminación da corrupción, a construción dun hospital, a loita contra o abandono dos cultivos e o gando, o control do consumo de alcohol e a introdución de reformas legais.