Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, owner of Silver Sands, has acquired 20 acres for a hotel on Barbuda and requested an additional 50 acres for an expanded property, as confirmed by Finance Minister and Prime Minister Gaston Browne, emphasizing the positive impact on residents.
Browne foresees a prosperous future for Barbuda, envisioning it as one of the Caribbean’s most diversified destinations.
Ongoing discussions with Saudi Arabia also indicate a potential $80-100 million investment in a high-end resort.
Adding to the island’s allure, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts is expanding to Barbuda with the upcoming 2028 opening of Rosewood Barbuda.
Developed by Murbee Resorts, the property will feature 50 suites and 35 residences on 85 acres, embodying Rosewood’s “A Sense of Place philosophy.”
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Where are the seafood processing plants and research facilities?
These are more likely, to employ engineers, scientists, botanists etc.
Not everyone is inclined, to drive a taxi, cook in a kitchen, make beds, mow lawns, or be a minstrel, begging for crumbs from the tables of the rich and famous!
The Barbudans MUST take a page out of, the Japanese Cultural playbook, and demand better use of all those resources around them.
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De ‘ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿Garrat_Bastard
Vere C. Edwards
There is not enough fish around Barbuda to warrant a processing plant and why would anyone pay to put a research facility there
With all these acres of lands being taken over my foreigners, what will be left for future Antiguans and Barbudans. Is there a limit on the number of acreage one hotel should have? Also where will the people come from to work in these hotels? Certainly not Barbuda and Antigua. Meaning we will have to import workers. As to lobsters, none will be available for locals. We know how much certain people like crustaceans. These resorts will be fishing for their own.
Sad day for Barbuda and Barbudans….it is sad enough to take away centuries of land communal culture…to now turn the lands over to hotel developers…
We have fought hard to abolished Chattel Slavery to a greater implementation of “TOURISM SLAVERY”. Is thats the best our politicians and political party can do in terms of developments….Hotel..Hotel Hotels.
No agronomy… no Agro-processing… not modern fishing techniques for local people.. on the twin island….with all these hotels on Barbuda 🇦🇬 who will be the modernized slaves…the waiters..bed makers and bathroom- toilet cleaners…the landscapers…the chefs and cooks etc.
From henceforth come these workers …. what are we telling our youths…that mandatory tourism slavery is the modern vehicle for your university degrees. Can you imaging the impact that thousands of workers would have an Barbuda….housing…cars…air traffic POLLUTION…whatever you can imagine..
THAT’S THE END OF OUR ISLAND 🏝 PARADISE….and nobody but the Barbudans…trying to preserve the way of live…nobody cares..not UPP…not ABLP…not the investors or developers…
FOR A FIST FULL OF DOLLARS!
Again, Gaston Browne is showing total disrespect to the Barbudan’s by allowing another billionaire development for the hospitality sector.
Like Ras Smood I already mentioned that the Prime Minister should be concentrating on other fiscal and finances through other sectors like manufacturing and development through ‘Green’ initiatives.
BARBUDAN’S ARE MORE THAN BED MAKERS AND SERVERS FOR THE RICH AND INFAMOUS!
Gaston Browne continues to sell us down the river for a quick dollar 💵
No wonder Barbudan’s do not vote for the ABLP.
Furthermore, because of this, Gaston Browne has taken it upon himself to gradually destroy and de-construct Barbuda – what a wilful man when you stand up to him!
VIVA BARBUDA … 🇦🇬
Dexter – entirely agree with your sentiments. As an English tourist who went to Barbuda last Saturday, our tour guide told us that only Barbudan folk were allowed to buy land on the island. So how comes wealthy foreign investors are able to buy up large chunks of land. Something seems wrong there. Also the current infrastructure hardly supports luxury hotels. My view is too many eggs in the tourism basket. Look for alternatives.
Lands were not sold in Barbuda…the Barbudans used to have a communal rights to the lands…until the Barbuda land Act was amended in Parliament…where all lands in the twin island state falls under the central government….rightly so.
But selective development for the sister island Barbuda should be environmentally friendly to maintain the the island paradise…
This large scale leasing and selling to hotel developers will only change the natural beauty of the island. I sure won’t want to see Barbuda in twenty years from now.
Correction: nobody, not even barbudans, can BUY land in Barbuda, the land is communal.
Perfect opportunity for the Prime Minister to line his pockets, while the sheep are left to wonder what happened. Time to vote this guy out!!
We should have ALREADY voted him out last January!!!!
All we can offer for employment is hotels?
Where is the vision?
Hotel,hotel,???
Not everyone wants to find a job making bed, and cleaning room!
This government still has not been able to diversify and expand our people portfolio!!
Without vision the people perish!!
We certainly need change!!!
…”developed by Murbee Resorts”….!!!!
Murbee is the company that was formed by Maria Bird and her father for the development of Dulcina…..that company has never developed anything and now they will be the “developers” of this gigantic eyesore??? Guess we know who else is lining their pockets!
Radio chatters and making social media comments serves Gaston Brown purposes. They distract from the end-game.
The silence from the Barbuda MP and the Barbuda Council is defending.
Soon at the Budget Speech we will hear from the Barbuda MP with his righteous indignation performance; long after the horse is out the Barn, and he may have assisted in unlocking the gate.
It is obvious those two entitles the Council and the MP who are supposed to be advocating and protecting The Barbuda peoples interest, have either given these two projects their blessing or they are totally bought.
These hotels will be built; and the construction work will go to non-Antiguans and non- Barbudans.
The staffing will be the same demographics once the hotels are built.
Currently 20% of the residents of Codrington and surrounding areas are non-Barbudans and non-Antiguans
Should all of these hotels go into operations, the so called “Caribbean brothers” on Barbuda will be three times The Barbudan and Antiguans population living and working in Barbuda.
This changing demographics will also drastically change the voting pattern and results since our so called “Caribbean brothers and sisters” are one party voters.
It was the same MP and The Chairman of the Barbuda Council who took a case all the way to the Privy Council which they lost on “lack of standing”.
If the case had been brought in the name of the Barbuda people collectively, and not by two individuals; the case may have been won at the Privy Council.
This all begs the question of where are the MP and the Barbuda Council ?
Should the case which is awaiting a Privy Council decision be won by the two Barbudans who has waged the case against environmentally damaging projects and waste; it will change the paradigm.
Should they loose at the Privy Council Gaston will achieve all his goals.
How did Murbee acquire the additional lands beyond the original lands they were given years ago and never performed?
Whose Barbudan land is now been taken away and handed over to Murbee, Gaston, the two Eastern Europeans and Roosewood?
Raise that question to Trevor Walker and the Barbuda Council.
Could these two entities be playing the people as fools?
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