FWD: CARIBBEAN/ANTIGUA: Antiguan Farmers Won't Lose Land to Tourist Project

Jayne Musumba wrote:
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> Antiguan farmers won't lose land to tourist project
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> 19 April, 2001
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> St. John's, Antigua, CANA - The Antigua and Barbuda government
> has told villagers living near the expanding Carlisle Bay Hotel
> they will not be forced to give up residential or farm land
> because of a multi-million dollar development project. However,
> yesterday some villagers were continuing a protest outside the
> 40-unit hotel on the southern coast of Antigua, pressing for a
> meeting with Prime Minister Lester Bird, witnesses reported.
> People living near the hotel have expressed fears that a road it
> is building will cut across lands they have been farming for
> generations; that they will also have to move, making way for a
> golf course the hotel wants to build; and that in the expansion
> of the hotel an important mangrove swamp will be destroyed,
> damaging the area's fishing potential.
>
> SOURCE: Caribbean News Agency (CANA)
>
Received on Sat Apr 21 22:16:58 2001