Sing-a-song, I thought that was the type of “lovely urban development” you were talking about. Throwing a marina and a couple hotels in the mix probably had the land developers salivating. Don’t forget condos and a golf course. When you sell them to the foreigners that is a lot more profitable than hotels. But I don’t think I had to tell you that.

Wait a minute. Are you one of the developers that influenced the land use change at Graeme Hall from a public open green space in the previous Physical Development Plan to urban/residential in the most recent Physical Development Plan? You and your people been planning this all along?

Man you got vision! Port St. Graeme Hall! With people like you we going be “first wurl” in no time at all. Shhhhhh! Don’t let the locals know that when the public lands developed they won’t be able to go near the marina, gated community or golf course unless they employed there.

Quality of life won’t be great but we could say we arrived. Meanwhile real so called developed countries moving in the opposite direction to us making sure they increase, even create and or protect their public parks and green spaces. But what do they know?

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10431689

@Sing-a-song
The mantra now is Climate Change my friend – more snow and colder winters, hotter summers and more droughts, rising sea levels, an increase in extremes of weather etc etc.

“As to this “the locals won’t be welcomed” I have no idea where that is coming from.” Well, it’s from our current experience. You see the average local Barbadian frequenting Port St. Charles or the gated communities? What happened to the beach that locals used to be able to access where Port St. Charles is constructed? I remember picnicking on that beach. Is that the type of empowerment of the Black Barbadian you are talking about? By their nature the type of “stimulus” and “development” you are proposing is exclusionary and definitely not sustainable.

Is your so called “Black Barbadian” going to be empowered when the public lands at Graeme Hall are sold to foreign investors and become private lands? Is it worth the jobs in construction that are only temporary? Meanwhile you have lost your birthright forever. Is it really a win-win situation? Who wins the developer and the foreign investor? What did the Barbadian win? Do you think Barbadians are going to allow this model of so called unsustainable “development” to continue?

I believe that over 6000 Barbadian citizens have signed a petition in support of preserving the green space at Graeme Hall. I suspect that any developer or government that wants to challenge that with your vision of development will do so at their own peril. Ask the Caribbean Splash water park developer. Let’s see the developer that will dare to bring a proposal to develop the public lands at Graeme Hall.

The point is this: I support GHNS don get me wrong. I heard David Thompson argue on TV that the government will protect jobs at GHNS but that it was not bankrupt.

So closing it just because you don’t get what you want is the Stanford philosophy. I oppose that. That’s why Spencer ran him out of Antigua!

Nostradamus, I have no line to Owen Arthur. I called David Thompson at his home which is listed in the phone directory at Mapps, St. Philip. Is Owen’s? Check it.

I agree that David Thompson is a nationalist. You can hear it in every word he utters. In the debate on Clico he was careful to point out that our small island BARBADOS has a reputation of its own. That is why he can’t adopt theTrinidad “brek for yourself” in the Clico matter.

Sorry for his detractors but I have to agree with him on GHNS and Clico. I am trying to be fair even though I must say I like the man. And I like his thinking. I am an unrepentent nationalist.

@Sing-a-song

“Graeme Hall is mainly a piece of unused rab land with a small portion as man made swamp. The egrets can go somewhere else. There is a need for new tourist attractions.”

The Ministry of Agriculture may beg to differ with you on it being “rab land”. Last time I passed it was being cultivated. I am afraid that you may be a bit out of touch and misinformed.

If your vision of comprehensive development stretching from the ABC highway to the coast is actually proposed we shall wait and see if Bajans will docilely accept it or challenge it as they did the water park.

Ok Wuh? I get it. Owen told a former Cabinet Minister in a rum shop and the former Cabinet Minister told you . The equivalent of “pillow talk” in a rum shop after a few ESAF!

So basically you got it third hand from a reported conversation between two men who had been drinking in a rum shop.

Hope you told the current PM how you came about this shocking revelation.

No Wuh?, he should bring the evidence and make it public in the appropriate place like Parliament or a press conference. You don’t conduct the people’s business in a rum shop.

Giving PUBLIC money to a private entity without clear reasoning as to how the public is interest is served and without clear accounting guidelines and controls is not only unwise, it is corrupt. What is to stop Allard from taking the money, keeping the Sanctuary shut (or reopening for short period and then shutting down again) and selling the place? According to the statements attributed to the PM as reported in the Nation newspaper, there is nothing to stop this from happening.