CABINET NOTES:
The Cabinet invited the Barbuda Council to dialogue on a number of issues on which all could move forward, having identified common solutions. The Parliamentary Representative of Barbuda led the delegation of 7 officials.
He applauded the Prime Minister for improving the engagement with the Council, overcoming an acrimonious relation which had its beginnings many years ago.
In the year 2000, a Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) was established with the help of the Commonwealth; it consisted of three members of the Barbuda Council and three members of the Government.
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That proposal was accepted by the Cabinet and the Prime Minister is to be the chairperson (with a casting vote). An agreement was reached to make payments of back-pay up to $500,000.
The Cabinet also agreed to provide up to ECD$10 million dollars in roadwork.
At present, Palmetto Point is accessible only by the beach or the sea because the road is now within leased property; the Cabinet gave assurances that roadways perpendicular to the sea would create accessibility to the beach, as is the law in Antigua and Barbuda.
The issue of land adjudication is now before the High Court and the Barbuda Council’s attorney was not present; therefore, the issue was not discussed. Constructing a Golf Course on the northern side of Barbuda was also put forward.
Until there was a map of the area intended to be so utilized, the Council members felt that they could not address the issue.
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I am happy to see this and hope that the effort could be enacted in all matters concerning Barbuda. Barbuda, has always been a mixed-feeling kind of thing for me. On one hand, I completely disagree with how Gaston and the ABLP just pushed the Barbuda council aside and do whatever they want. On the other hand, I do not believe that that the Barbuda council is the highest authority concerning Barbuda. I listened to the radio the other day where it was suggested that the council replaced the Barbuda Warden with all of the powers that office held. Ok, but the the Warden was answerable to the British crown, which at election was taken over by the government of Antigua and Barbuda.
There are many things left to work out and I hope a broader committee is set up to try to settle all issues so in the end we all feel like one nation.
Sorry, I meant to post at “Independence”, rather than at “election”.
@Zackie
I understand your points of view.
The issue for me is that the fact that the Hon. Trevor Walker knows the intent of the government, but chooses politically meander the truth as he plays with the people’s trepidation in losing their lands.
If you notice in the discussion, the matter of $500,000.00 backpay is owed for subvention. A $10 million dollar commitment is being made to repair roads, whereas they would have been able to earn their own revenue to take care of those perennial issues with a sustainable development model.
We need to move away from the acrimonious approach to everything proposed for Barbuda.
They only utilized a small communal area on the island. The rest of the island is untouched and needs development by locals and foreign investors.
They need to put an end to the games with this unitary state concept and make it a reality.
The various news portal are reporting different stories about the meeting.
This was really a meeting between two people with others in attendance.
The impetus for the meeting was the land Adjudication issue which was not discussed. Gaston wins again.
Can you imagine if the Government leased land on both sides of the road leading to Royalton Hotel, then declare the road is on leased land; so a new road has to be built to get to the beach. Gaston the soon to be billionaire wins again.
for 10 LONG YEARS Trevor Walker sat next to the Tissue Paper Cooks Pond Water KICKBACK FROM JOHN ASHE Prime Minister and DID NOTHING FOR BARBUDA!!!! Wah he a try now?? looking infamy and honour??? He is on record as saying:
“…and seem to be on a protracted path of
**GAMBLING**
1). IDLENESS
2). SEXUAL PROMISCUITY
3). DRUG ABUSE
4). ALCOHOL ABUSE
5). BADMINDED-NESS
6).COVETUOUS-NESS
7).SELFISHNESS
8).UNPRODUCTIVITY. People don’t want to work
9)DECEITFULNESS
10).People badminded and just covet other people
11).LACK OF RESPECT FOR OTHERS
12).LACK OF RESPECT FOR THOSE IN AUTHORITY
13).Council say work til 4 o’clock or 5 o’clock. You warn go home 10 o’clock
14).LAZINESS
15).THE LOVE FOR MONEY
16).GREEDINESS
And the last one which I find is the most profound for me:
17). OUR TURNING AWAY FROM GODLY THINGS”.
~Member of Parliament Trevor Walker
Suddenly he a try play “hero”? but a cooyah!
Member of Parliament for Barbuda Trevor Walker said, “We want to get an expert in to do a report for us as to the personnel and the job descriptions so that they can produce a report to the Barbuda council.”
WHERE IS THE REPORT? JOAN UNDERWOOD where are you?
time to AUDIT the Barbuda Council
“Member of Parliament (MP) for Barbuda Trevor Walker yesterday LASHED OUT at Barbudans for their DEPENDENCE on the Barbuda Council.
Walker ACCUSED BARBUDANS OF NOT DOING ENOUGH FOR THE SISTER-ISLAND while RELYING TOO HEAVILY ON SUBSIDIES FROM THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN ANTIGUA.
“It’s so amazing to me that 1,500 people cannot get together to try and organise themselves in a way that they can help themselves, and I take blame for that too,” he said.
“All that we do is to go to this broke Barbuda Council that has no money, borrow everything that we want, and the same Barbuda Council depends on the central government every week every month for transfers. It’s just not sustainable.”
“At the end of the day, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot want to live the Antigua life and want to have the Barbuda lifestyle”
@Dr. Ray,
How about informing yourself of the millions PLH is supposed to be paying to Barbuda according to the agreements which is held by the Antigua government. The $10 million road is chicken feed.
If you have ever been to Barbuda beyond Codrington you would know that more that 50 % of Barbuda’s land mass is wetlands. The wetlands feeds the aquifers the provide the well water used by most Barbudans.
You are grossly misinformed in your thinking that Barbudans only uses a small communal area.
You yet again make grossly misunderstood statements concerning road repair sources and uses of funds and subversions.
Barbudans are not against development.
Barbudans are against developments that destroys their environment.
Barbudans are against development where the jobs for Barbudans are back of the house jobs. Dishwashers, beach cleaners and gardeners etc. Most progressive Caribbean countries such as the Bahamas and Anguilla give the developers and resort management company a schedule and a deadline for locals to manage the property.
Aurora Resort which is one of the only 5 star hotels in the Caribbean general manager is a native.
Most of the hotels on Paradise Island senior management are natives.
Barbudans want to be of service not be in servitude.
Certainly the people of Barbuda has been hoodwinked duped and bamboozled by those they have elected to guide them and protect their interest.
@Murbee the Pimp.
PLH pays its fair share to the council on a monthly basis. It also employs the majority of Barbuda’s workforce.
PLH acquires all its fuel for operation from the only local fuel station on the island, owned by whom?
You can offer managerial positions to unqualified people. Please do not compare the developed regional islands where education is at high levels. They are both progressive islands.
Barbuda doesn’t even have a commercial sector, a shopping area, an industrial park.
I was there a few months ago and last year. I used to visit Barbuda quite frequently many years ago in contract.
I still enjoy my time at the Barbuda Cottages as it has sense of tranquility and innocence and security. Uncle Roddy’s Beach Bar & Grill next door is still one of the finest.
Despite all that, you can defend as much as you want, but there’s a reality that we must face if we are going to end this absurd territorial war that brings no progress to either of the islands.
When you write just blatant lies. Whose interest are you serving?
The Central Government gets the lease payments not the Barbuda Council. There are a number of in-kind items in leu of lease payments, such as the cost of building the FBO airport for which Barbudans won a case at the Privy Council.
That Airport by the way was support of open for the Billionaires to jet in last thanksgiving. A case was won against it at the Privy Council. Stay tuned.
I am ashamed to write The Barbuda Council probably employs as many Barbudans as PLH. Thats another issue.
PLH does not obtain its fuel locally. PLH brings in its own fuel. If you really know anything about Barbuda. Stop making assertion and writing them as facts.
With a Doctorate you should something about doing your research. Is your false assertions a reflection of the quality of your research for you PHD.
Your statement about progressive islands misses the point. Yes, Anguilla and The Bahamas are much more progressive than Antigua and Barbuda. The policies and principles that enable them to be considered progressive are what Barbudans who are fighting are aiming to achieve. Progressive in this case is not about left and right politics. They are about policies that uplift the local people. Building more and more hotel room is not progressive. Anguilla just threatens as developer in forfeiting his land for they do not want more gated communities. The reason behind that is based on progressive policy being carried out by the Anguilla people for the betterment of the community.
Industrial Park is lacking in Barbuda. You make me laugh.
Uncle Rody bar and grill… Dr Ray you have no taste in food.
Here I go again and pamper you, because I must have this land sales go through, PLH is in the courts in the USA to provide title deeds for lands they sold to their white compatriots so I got to nice up Trevor walker and the council members to get through, they will forget PLH arrested Barbuda council governing officials for walking on the beach and how I curse them about incest relationship.
And any way concerning lands, the Westminster system of politics is anti-black, each time a black person assume that role as the colonial do, it’s the same outcome, keep the black people in poverty and away from resources, the council could have built small hotels on the beaches and lease to born barbudans since the 60’s to present, by now barbudans would have been billionaires, but when a black man in charge he become a coconut, brown outside and white inside, and keep down their people just like the white slave master, keep them in the township ghetto, and they so loved their slave master as house slaves they want to live on his estates Codrington town, if only the church and government weren’t their to keep down barbudans and they have gotten up and occupy the lands, because their opportunity was better than Antigua, no cash components for lands, so sad. Now Gaston a plunder for he and his white handlers that supervise him as a merchant politician, that guy in barbuda that just curse and say Trevor walker wasting time is so true, his university education let him behave as a white man, it need fighters who is not afraid to come like v.c bird vulcan the fire god and light these foreign land thieves property, long live v c bird.
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