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Greed is powerful! It has to be controlled!<\/strong><\/p>

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Greed forces us to look the other way, very much as our budget is directed to other people\u2019s greed.<\/p>\n

Why else would our leaders who hold the golden stool of power, seek to divert the benefits of our state to the Foreign Direct Investment sector while burdening the people of the state with more taxes, and limited respect.<\/p>

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Greed is one of the capital interests which spin off the admitted FDI programs in under-developed small countries like Antigua.<\/p>

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Exactly how much of Antigua does one program to take. Having taken the lion\u2019s share of Hotels on big beach areas, Supermarkets were next, quickly followed by a Wholesale foods operated under a sweetheart Duty Free which distributed (as Duty Paid Wholesale) to all hotels, restaurants and private homes.<\/p>\n

The making of these conglomerates on our 108 sq. ml island, and other \u2018big\u2019 hotel projects operating tax free, are proudly acclaimed in millions and billions of dollars by our government.<\/p>

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But, for Antigua and mostly for Barbuda, this is accompanied by a rash of taxes on its poor local people and businesses all around, plus land deprivation for Barbuda people who are being fenced out of their pastoral and other lands and fishing grounds.<\/p>\n

A kind of creole apartheid is being conceived for Barbuda.<\/p>

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Clearly the quality of tourist planned for the gigantic development in Barbuda, those who would consider living in a secluded community of 450 homes ( which minimum number of 2 homeowners plus 3 staff is 2250) is definitely not that of high-end Jumby Bay Estates or Mill Reef, or for that matter any part of St. Baths.<\/p>

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Two of the new resorts for Barbuda however, reflect the original slow high-end growth planned by the people of Barbuda for their hotels and tourism development, attracting old and real wealth, as did Coco Pointe and K-Club.<\/p>\n

Greed uncontrolled, encourages a great idea to share the beauty and tranquility of Barbuda to wind out of control, into a get-rich quick plan to wholesale beauty & tranquility.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, nobody has bothered to consider the psychological fallout in the life and culture of a people living without borders, suddenly fenced out of their lands.<\/p>\n

This is bound to erupt negatively sometime in the future, as greed demands all,or nothing at all, and the people of Barbuda (mostly less than 3000 in Barbuda at any given time) are known to demand their land culture of common ownership be respected.<\/p>\n

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Greed is powerful! It has to be controlled! Greed forces us to look the other way, very much as our budget is directed to other people\u2019s greed. Why else would our leaders who hold the golden stool of power, seek to divert the benefits of our state to the Foreign Direct Investment sector while burdening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nOBSERVATION: Greed is powerful! 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