{"id":194895,"date":"2024-02-02T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=194895"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:26:54","slug":"barbudans-launch-new-environmental-legal-fight-in-caribbean-against-wealthy-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/barbudans-launch-new-environmental-legal-fight-in-caribbean-against-wealthy-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbudans launch new environmental legal fight in Caribbean against wealthy developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-647072986\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>AP: Construction of two private villas inside a national park in Barbuda has sparked the latest environmental legal fight between angry residents and wealthy foreigners seeking to develop the Caribbean island with support from the government.<\/p><div id=\"antig-589433084\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:169\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:576\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:432\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:864\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>George Jeffery, a local fisherman and tour guide, and the U.K.-based nonprofit Global Legal Action Network filed a lawsuit Thursday against the government of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n<p>The suit seeks to overturn the construction permit because the island\u2019s Development Control Authority approved the high-end development despite the national environmental department rejecting the proposal twice.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1166898186\" class=\"antig-content_4 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, 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height=\"1350\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The legal fight\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/barbuda-airport-court-fight-privy-council-f2c612c172c4b047841431f6976f624d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">comes on the heels of another case<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in which Barbudan residents and Global Legal Action Network are opposing construction of hundreds of luxury residences, an 18-hole golf course, a beach club and a natural gas storage facility on more than 600 acres (240 hectares) of protected wetland in Barbuda.<\/p><div id=\"antig-3447158924\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiguabarbudaculinarymonth.com\/\" aria-label=\"culinary\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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696px\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1124\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"PageListEnhancementGeneric Enhancement\" data-module=\"\" data-module-trackunsubscribe=\"\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"PageList-items\" data-list-loadmore-items=\"\">\n<div class=\"PageList-items-item\">\n<div class=\"PagePromo\" data-gtm-region=\"Two residents of the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda fight the government, seeking to protect land\" data-gtm-topic=\"No Value\" data-align-top=\"\" data-mobile-alt-layout=\"true\">\n<div class=\"PagePromo-media\" data-animate=\"fromBottom\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/barbuda-airport-court-fight-privy-council-f2c612c172c4b047841431f6976f624d\" aria-label=\"Two residents of the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda fight the government, seeking to protect land\"><picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-3x2\"><source 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When Hurricane Irma slammed into the tiny Caribbean island as a powerful Category 5 storm in 2017, the government temporarily evacuated the entire population of some 1,600. Before many of them had trickled back, U.S. developers were allowed in and permitted to build an airport and luxury resort, a project that has angered islanders and that the U.N. warns is a danger to a wetland and other fragile environments. (AP Photo\/Mohammid Walbrook)\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"PagePromo-content\" data-animate=\"fromBottom\">\n<div class=\"PagePromo-title\"><a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/barbuda-airport-court-fight-privy-council-f2c612c172c4b047841431f6976f624d\"><span class=\"PagePromoContentIcons-text\">Two residents of the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda fight the government, seeking to protect land<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the new lawsuit, Gear\u00f3id \u00d3 Cuinn, director of Global Legal Action Network, said, \u201cThis small island nation is under-resourced and faces an enormous fight against wealthy foreign developers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"HTMLModuleEnhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"HTMLModuleEnhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"HTMLModuleEnhancement-embed\">\n<div class=\"HtmlModule\" data-module-tracksubscribe=\"\" data-gtm-topic=\"No Value\" data-module-number=\"2\" data-main-module-number=\"2\">\n<p class=\"embed-caption\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00d3 Cuinn and Jeffery are asking the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in St. Lucia to quash the permit that officials awarded in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with Abercorn Trust Inc., which is building the project, could not be immediately reached for comment about the suit, and the government\u2019s Development Control Authority did not return a message for comment.<\/p><div id=\"antig-4251073649\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"IMG_0783\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 500w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Construction already has started on the project, which envisions two luxury homes of at least 15,000 square feet each along with swimming pools, tennis courts and a helicopter pad at the site in northwestern Barbuda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SovrnAd Advertisement sovrn-story-feed proper-dynamic-insertion\" data-module=\"\" data-class=\"sovrn-story-feed\" data-delayadinsertion=\"\">\n<div class=\"proper-ad-unit\">\n<div class=\"disclosure_box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The site covers 114 acres (46 hectares) on the fringes of Codrington Lagoon National Park, a protected wetland that is home to a frigate bird sanctuary, a turtle nesting site and endangered species including the upside-down jellyfish, the West Indian whistling duck and the Barbudan warbler, according to court documents.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1739448059\" class=\"antig-content_3 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"1000436969\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:240\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:819\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 819w, 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Global Legal Action Network, said in a phone interview that the site contains a nearly 100-acre security buffer to keep people out of the area, which includes part of the lagoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are really sensitive to it because it\u2019s their main source of water, it\u2019s their main source of food,\u201d she said. \u201cUp to this point, it\u2019s been completely undeveloped.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"SovrnAd Advertisement sovrn-story-feed proper-dynamic-insertion\" data-module=\"\" data-class=\"sovrn-story-feed\" data-delayadinsertion=\"\">\n<div class=\"proper-ad-unit\">\n<div class=\"disclosure_box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jeffery, the fisherman and tour guide, noted in his affidavit the lagoon is a \u201ccrucial ecosystem\u201d that serves as a nursery for marine life.<\/p>\n<p>The company that prepared environmental impact statements for Abercorn Trust said that it did not expect \u201cmajor impacts\u201d on the frigate bird colony given its distance from the site and that no activity is proposed in the lagoon.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffery rejected the statement, saying \u201csince construction began, I have noticed the damage and deterioration being caused to the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Malley said a wealthy British investor, Henry Anderson, is the person behind Abercorn Trust. 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