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Parliament Approves Compulsory Land Acquisition in St. Mary’s South for Housing Project
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The House of Representatives has approved a resolution for the compulsory acquisition of land in St. Mary’s South, paving the way for a new government housing project aimed at empowering young families and residents in the area.
The motion was introduced by Attorney General and St. John’s City South MP Sir Steadroy Benjamin, who said the resolution was brought under Section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act (Cap. 233) to facilitate the construction of 50 homes for young people through a government-funded initiative valued at approximately EC$10 million.
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“This acquisition is for a public purpose,” Sir Steadroy told Parliament. “The government has made a determination that this land is needed for a housing project that will directly benefit the young people of St. Mary’s South.”
The Attorney General explained that the Cabinet had already issued a decision authorizing the declaration, and that all legal steps were being taken in accordance with established procedures to ensure that landowners are fairly compensated.
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“We are following the law to the letter,” he said. “Every property acquired under this Act is subject to due process, fair valuation, and compensation as required.”
Opposition members voiced support for the project in principle but called for greater consultation between the government and constituency representatives to ensure that developments reflect local priorities.
One opposition member argued that parliamentary representatives should always be engaged early in the planning stages for such projects.
Responding, Sir Steadroy welcomed the spirit of cooperation across the aisle, noting that the government’s goal is to ensure all Antiguans and Barbudans benefit from the country’s development.
“We want to see every young person have a chance to own a home,” he said. “This is part of building a fair and inclusive society.”
The resolution was passed without objection, with the Speaker formally declaring, “The ayes have it. The resolution has been passed successfully through this House.”
Officials said the project will be developed in partnership with the Ministry of Housing and Public Works and will focus on providing affordable, climate-resilient homes. Construction is expected to begin following completion of the acquisition and subdivision process.
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The situation in Antigua is lack of vision, the land survey and topography engineer need sit back and allow some real experience people to come in and show them how it’s done, all the flat arable lands a been detrimentally used up for housing, in st Marys south there are hills with scenic views that even sugar ridge is utilizing, but the problem in Antigua is road design on a incline, we continue to have the Scotts hill to potters road descend effect all over this country, so dangerous that vehicle usually gets away and crash into houses fatally. The roads going up hills are suppose to be spirally gradual or zig zag as they will , the cultural milleau of Antigua need to change, I totally believe a lot of our so call academics had political help to go through their educational achievement that is causing so much problems with all our so call engineers and technicians, in st Mary’s south and all in old road village has so much beautiful hillside lands that these roads could create home space for the nation, but instead they lay their untouched. And wait a minute the APUA engineered haven’t figured out how to push water up hill so they will make such project impossible, they haven’t a clue that there are in line booster pumps to push water up hill, and of course that goes hands in hands with a reliable electricity service, and that’s a failure again as far as a electricity manager who can have the electric lines maintenance done without taking off the power.
The potential is their for growth and development in Antigua but the professionals in position lack the creativity to do so, in 1970’s the PLM administration invited people from abroad to modernize APUA, when ALP regain power in 1976 they abandoned all the apparatus installed online and install square pegs to sabotage it, just like it is with the wadadli power plant, an electricity manager had the job to see to it’s functionality. Imagine these ministers from both government to opposition is so short sighted that they went to parliament to pass land acquisition laws as the onliest way, I am sure sugar ridge and all a them getting these hillside lands as not congruent for living meaning cheap price.
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