In delivering the 2018 Speech from the Thorne today, Governor General Sir Rodney Williams gave a number of updates on promised investments meant to create jobs.
Below is what he said about the hotels and other project which have started and expected to start in 2018.
“The Hodges Bay Club is likely to throw open its doors in a few months. The abandoned Sunsail Club Colonna is coming back on stream this year; repair work is on-going.
The Rex Halcyon is to be expanded and upgraded. The Royal Antiguan is being completely refurbished by the Sunwing Group.
A350-room Royalton Hotel will also spring to life across from the Royal Antiguan, on the north side of the lagoon.
More than 200 new rooms will be added to the stock when the Hyatt is built on the site where the Yeptons Villas once stood.
The Valley Church Beach Hotel will be under construction in a few months. The Tamarind Hills 48 villa-expansion project is underway, with all villas pre-sold.
The Callaloo Quay construction site, to become the home of the Waldorf Hotel, has already begun just outside Old Road. The NonSuch Bay expansion is beyond the planning stages.
The Verandah Hotel is expanding; the Pineapple Beach is under construction, attesting to the faith of the current hotelier in the viability of the Antigua and Barbuda tourism product.
The old Half Moon Bay Hotel, in contention since 1995, or for 22 years, is being demolished; the Replay Group has purchased the derelict property for US$23 million dollars.
My Government still owes interest payments of US$20 million dollars. The YIDA project at Crabbes is under construction, despite the unhelpful claims made by his detractors.
On Barbuda, the Paradise Found project by Robert DiNero is moving forward, as is the PLH Hotel Project by John Paul DeJoria. The destruction of the hotels on Barbuda by Hurricane Irma, including the 50 year-old Coco Point Lodge, presents an opportunity for realizing economic benefit by those who can calculate risks.
The new runway, finger pier and seaport, and other infrastructural projects which Barbuda will realize this year, represent a calculated risk taken by my Government.
My Government is betting that a new Barbuda will rise like a phoenix from Irma’s ashes. Creating new hotel projects by more foreign direct investment is the mandate given to my Government by the people of Antigua and Barbuda. The mantra is jobs, jobs, jobs!”
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Wow no one has anything to say poor Antigua you people are sick more hotels. Question one where is the work force is going to come from to build all of them in 2018, (2) since so much investment where’s the money,(3) you Antigua have no shame look the government still going a head with projects in Barbuda when the people them say no. To show that all Antigua is go for it to talk people business and put there tail between they legs. DISGRACEFUL SET OF PEOPLE
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