Posted as a comment to the A Legal Challenge to the HYATT HOTEL is Looming by DAVID COMISSIONG
My further reading of the relevant statutory instruments has confirmed that the Chief Town Planner is OBLIGATED to refer an application for planning permission that relates to beachfront property on the coast of Barbados to the relevant Minister of Government— the Prime Minister— for his decision. Thus, even though Maloney”s / Visions Develop Inc’s application may have been addressed to the Chief Town Planner, it is Prime Minister Stuart who has to consider it and make the decision.
The Town and Country Planning Act also stipulates that in so doing, Stuart HAS to refer to the country’s Physical Development Plan and to any other material or relevant circumstance.
The problem is though that the Physical Development Plan was last amended in 2003, and this “new” 2003 Plan was ratified in or about 2008— even though the Town and Country Planning Act stipulates that the Chief Town Planner HAS to carry out a survey of the Island at least once every 5 years, and HAS to submit a Report and any recommendations or proposals for amendment or additions to the Physical Development Plan to the Minister (the Prime Minister). The current and operative Barbados Physical Development Plan is thus a 2003 Plan !
In 2011, some 8 years after the current Physical Development Plan was established, the City of Bridgetown was designated a UNESCO world heritage site!
How is Stuart going to carry out his statutory duty with an outdated Physical Development Plan that has not factored in the UNESCO designation?
I have drafted a letter about all this to Stuart and will be delivering it to him tomorrow.
111 responses to “The Hyatt Hotel Project Requires Prime Minister Stuart’s Approval”
So why is Donville claiming that permission has been given for the Hyatt project, when he is not the Prime Minister…what has Inniss promised Maloney.
None of this would be happening if any of them had RESPECT for the people.
Well done David.
Again one must ask why is this advocacy left mainly to one man. Where are the other lawyers, NGOs, individual citizens. It is our right to demand transparency and to hold our elected officials accountable.
The UNESCO designation would/should be considered a material consideration in determining the application.
What is more David, where are the Advocate and the Nation? Their performance is humiliating.
They need the PM to have approval for a Trespass on Beatrice Henry and Violet Beckles land , A Plantation deed none of them own nor ever paid for, More Cahill fraud games ,They do not have land owners permission,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4N0e-3GPw2A
@Peter
They can do more.
The Nation and Barbados Today have carried DC’s communications, the Nation carried Stevens’ message about UNESCO designation under threat if a 15 story hotel is built in Bridgetown. What is disturbing is Inniss et al communicating to the pubic as if this matter is a done deal. Where is Minister Stephen Lashley on this given his responsibility for managing the UNESCO designation.
Obviously that’s the main reason those involved were trying to work with stealth, they knew the UNESCO designaton is a major issue…and as usual, aided by ministers with their own selfish agendas, Maloney with his penchant for ignoring and breaking the island’s laws, would totally ignore any loss of designation to the island and give the finger to any legal barriers standing in his way.
Let’s see what Frundel does, he can’t pass the responsibility to anyone else, or blame anyone else other than himself and Dumbville for this cockup. …let’s see if they have gotten so callous and corrupt that they would allow Maloney to start the project without permission as well as put the island at risk of losing their designation.
Oh what a tangled web they weaved, because all they practice is to deceive.
Owen Arthur called it right when he referred to this raggamuffin DLP lot as a pack ‘o wild boys.Excluding Sealy,Boyce and Thompson from the pack,one is hard pressed to disagree with Arthur on the remaining 13.
They won by the scruff of their necks in 2013.There is so much discontent with this party for the imposition of taxation every year since 2008 and nothing to show for it other than the hammy-la crossover at the Pine,that they will be hardpressed to get more than 2 seats as occurred in 1999.
I am not sure if it is Lashley or Blackett who is responsible for the UNESCO designation given that Blackett is the Minister who signed the submission to UNESCO
@ David
Where are the other lawyers, NGOs, individual citizens.
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Give it a rest nuh Boss…
What lawyers what?
There are not six of those parasites that could DARE to push their head out …even if they had the balls, or advocacy skills to do so…
Almost to a man or woman, they have too many damn skeletons in their closets to risk public scrutiny – except behind the veil of a political party….
Every damn thing in the place is shabby, mediocre and poor quality – and what almost everything in Barbados have in common, is a damn lawyer somewhere in decision making…
Let us just be thankful for David Come-and-sing-a-song and if anything, let us hope that none of the other damned parasites go and stab him in the back now…
Of course Commissiong has to watch his back, there are asswipes who would sell him out, just because they could and for a promise of crumbs.
This matter, as simple as it seems, is going to be the nail that caused the kingdom to be lost.
It is a matter that, unlike the Hard Rock building at the Flour Mill, CANNOT BE SHIFTED TO THE QUISLING, since it is a national matter of such significance shifting it would mean one outcome only, to enable Maloney.
But, with that action, and the issue of the loss of the designation looming large Fumbles is royally screwed for to have Barbados delisted would be the final nail in his coffin, one that Mugabe will not let pass.
So Hyatt will either have to settle for a 5 storey neoclassic structure with less rooms, and less ROI which is not the square footage to permit their model to work, in which case they pass.
And for fumbles to (1) kowtow to Maloney (2) break the prevailing law? And (3) cause the cuntry to loose the last ting dat it got that he and his effers ent ef up, well as I dun tell he, NOT ONE EFFING SEAT!!!
Froon is not so stupid not to know what is happening here and at this stage he is bent over backwards and can’t do anything with his rebel ministers. It leaves one to wonder if as usual they have even considered a consultation with him. However his political lackies most certainly have told him what is happening here on BU. Fear not, He will do the right thing for the good of the UNESCO designation and especially the country even if it comes to throwing Maloney under the bus so to speak and having a discussion with the rebel ‘pockets’.
@abajanhowe
You mean the same Froon who was the first member of Cabinet to sign a deal with Cahill Energy? The same Froon who watched Mia Amor Mottley rip into the 4 rogue cabinet minister she alleged signed the Cahill MOU and never unpicked his teeth?
There must be a Froon 1 and Froon 2.
We should also stop playing this UNESCO World Heritage Site Designation Card. Very little has been done to upgrade Bridgetown since the departure of Dame Billie Miller,and sod all has been done to improve the shambles which we call the Garrison. The Minister responsible for this department, is only interested in getting his mug in every photograph,and shamefacedly have to gall to talk about “I” or “We.” If we want to object to Hyatt building a cloud scraper in Bridgetown, lets find another reason, other than this UNESCO thing, which we may soon have to say good bye to.
Even as the bloodthirsty mobs close in on the prime minister, the question remains: if you attack the government and end up with the other party in its place, what exactly would change (except that money would have to change hands)? Would the new team turn down a large hotel project?
I think not.
Recall
Anybody who had any respect for Froon lost it when that Cahill letter of 2014,bearing his signature and all the authority vested in his office,was reproduced on BU for us to see.Froon proved that he is worse than Darcy Boyce the big time traitor.Froon is a Judas and will suffer that fate politically in due course.
What does a discredited Marxist who craves attention, a handful of green peace/ national trust elites with lackeys in tow and sheeple who graze in David BU pasture have in common? They wish to deny the urban poor jobs and economic progress. That’s what the shocking rejection of Hyatt is about. Instead of monetizing the island’s sole natural resource its white sand beaches the strange bedfellows demonize foreign investors. The financial returns from the World Heritage site have been invisible.
Odds are the FDI of scorned investors as in the past will find its way to:”“The ‘Pearl of the Caribbean’ in St. Lucia is valued at over USD2.6 billion and occupies a 700-acre site to the south of the island.“The project will comprise a marina, a racecourse, (look out BTC) a resort (Hyatt) and shopping mall complex, casino, Free Trade Zone, extensive entertainment and leisure facilities, eco-tourism as well as architecturally designed villas and apartments.””:
In contrast to Bdos a phone call to a connected politician in a neighbor state and the project starts the next day . There aren’t lobbyists, tree huggers, disgruntled businessmen ,opposition politicos, burdensome red tape or social commentators to obstruct job creation and economic advancement , etc. No wonder territories in the eastern Caribbean rank higher in ease of doing business.
The Stuart administration must take tough decisions to arrest a trend of vilification of investors who arrive with forex and enterprises to create work for citizens. If GOB isn’t firm the island is doomed. Peter Stevens , Henry Fraser , Commsiong et al reside in spacious bungalows the urban poor survive in ramshackle chattel houses. Failure to intervene by central government to enable investment and jobs and the gap between the rich and the poor remains the same. Social unrest will follow as night follows day.
@Passing thru
There is no Foreign Direct Investment. Hyatt is not putting up one thin dime. Maloney is financing it with debt secured by the Hyatt MOU.
A hotel will provide some jobs, but a smaller higher end hotel will provide almost as many. Furthermore, the Hyatt will be vulnerable to economic downturns in ways that a high end hotel like Sandy Lane is not.
Passing thru
You can take your argument to the swooning catholic supporters found in the democratic labour party who believe any crap you clowns write and speak.Your party in the lead up to the 08 election castigated foreign investment like it was leprosy and with your new found source of comfort in political office would malign true patriots of Barbados.There will be no 15 storey Hyatt at that site.We welcome a 15 storey Hyatt but not there.
The hardheaded retards still dont get that the only thing the Maloneys, Bizzys, Bjerkhams etc are rich in is DEBT……they use their fly by night scams, use easily manipulated government ministers, acquire governmeht contracts or in the Hyatt case agreements which can be all taken to the banks, to be used as collateral…..they ALWAYS use someone else’s money, too many times it’s the taxpayer’s get screwed.
What is so hard for the yardfowl parasites to understand.
Gabriel August 24, 2016 at 9:57 PM #
There will be no 15 storey Hyatt at that site
Peter Wickham and you swore on Feb 21st , 2013 there will be no Freundel Stuart government.
you mean this DLP really CURSE? watch yourself Chad99999, its CONTAGIOUS, be careful when trying to defend the DLP, putting on the bloody gloves, look at ACs
Passing thru aka waiting, a BU yardfowl.
Passing thru made some very interesting comments relative to Sam Lord’s Castle, Hyatt and foreign direct investment.
In 2014, the Stuart administration took the decision to compulsorily acquire the abandoned Sam Lord’s Castle property for the development of a branded resort.
On Monday, November 23, 2015, while addressing the groundbreaking ceremony for the restoration of the Castle, Stuart contended that the BDS$450 million (US$275 million) project was a SIGNAL that the CONFIDENCE of the international community in government’s economic development strategy was being RESTORED.
However, according to an article written by Trevor Williams in the December 3, 2015 edition of “Global Atlanta,” Maxine McClean confirmed the Barbados government finalized a US$170M loan (at 2.5% interest over 20 years) from the Chinese Export-Import Bank to finance the restoration/renovation of Sam Lord’s Castle.
Terms of the loan allow for “the Chinese contractor, China National Complete Plant Export-Import Co. Ltd., or Complant, to bring over workers to fill 60% of the project’s construction jobs.
The new property, which is expected to be completed in 2018, will be MANAGED/OPERATED by by Wyndham Hotels and Resorts.
Essentially, since this DLP administration USED TAX REVENUE to PURCHASE Sam Lord’s property; borrowed money from China (which TAX PAYERS will have to REPAY) to finance the property’s refurbishment, and will subsequently give the property Wyndham (who will be ultimately PAID by TAX PAYERS) to operate.
As such, based on the evidence, we could reasonably CONCLUDE that this is a TAX FUNDED project and not one of foreign direct investment.
This is truly one effed up constructs!!
The fact is that neither investors nor international banks and funding agencies have any confidence in this government administration
So, since the inept parties are mindful of their predicament, they have come up with this single option left to them “Pretend FDI” which is a government loan, packaged to look like FDI
One is sure that all one has to do is ask Abundant Lane of the BTIi, what is the source of all the so called FDI under this Bridgetown Careenage Scam and he may, if asked to swear on the veracity of his answer of the Holy Bible, a covenant that went out the door with his appointment to the BTII, explain the true nature of these scams.
That is, if pigs could fly.
One thing that you could be sure of is that the other tribe of monkeys that the nation awaits with baited breath, is going to have their hands full with this mess for at least five years to repair the reputational damage this lot caused.
This is why the “NOT ONE EFFING SEAT” is so important to convey the message to international entities that the country has totally discarded the inept miscreants
“Terms of the loan allow for “the Chinese contractor, China National Complete Plant Export-Import Co. Ltd., or Complant, to bring over workers to fill 60% of the project’s construction jobs.
The new property, which is expected to be completed in 2018, will be MANAGED/OPERATED by by Wyndham Hotels and Resorts.
Essentially, since this DLP administration USED TAX REVENUE to PURCHASE Sam Lord’s property; borrowed money from China (which TAX PAYERS will have to REPAY) to finance the property’s refurbishment, and will subsequently give the property Wyndham (who will be ultimately PAID by TAX PAYERS) to operate.
As such, based on the evidence, we could reasonably CONCLUDE that this is a TAX FUNDED project and not one of foreign direct investment.”
And the lying yardfowls would still like to convince those equally as dumb as themselves that the majority on the island benefit from these arrangements…the Chinese prisoners sent to work will benefit more than the few bajans who will get jobs….and that is only in the event that workers from the other Caribbean islands are not given the remaining construction jobs…to “cut costs”.
Would love to see the signed Hyatt agreement, it would make for good reading how they plan to screw the people, as usual..with the help of the squatters in parliament.
@WW&C
Theoretically, the government is correct when they say, for example, the Sam Lord’s Castle and Sandals’ projects will bring foreign exchange.
It is a known fact Chinese artisans will fill 60% of the Sam Lord’s project construction jobs. Also, JADA Construction brought in artisans from St. Vincent to work on the Sandals’ Couples Resort (previously Almond Casuarina Beach), expansion project.
The foreign exchange comes to the fore when Barbadian artisans were exchanged in favour of foreign artisans from China and St. Vincent.
Art…of course theoretically everything always looks good on paper and to the blind when the politicians/government ministers are telling it, but when the realty is implemented to exclude the bajan worker, it cannot be bajans benefitting, cause that “foreign exchange” leaves the country to feed the foreign workers families….who live abroad.
And since Maloney is the front man for both Bjerkham, Bizzy and obviously a few other scam artists who prefer to remain in the background and let him handle their dirty work, the same methods being applied to the building of Sandals re displacement of the bajan worker, engaging workers from other islands and paying slave wages to cut costs, will also be used for Hyatt….and all sanctioned by the squatters in parliament.
@Artax
Surely you are aware how these types of transactions work? You can’t borrow millions at concessionary rate from China, that you boast about in parliament, and do not expect conditions/strings to be attached. This is what happens when you have little capacity to enter in the capital market on your terms because of junk status credit rating. And to think the prime minister and Sinckler rubbished the downgrades when they occurred.
Lol…..their own desperation landed them in a stew, desperate politicians cannot be trusted.
Rommel Marshall was desperate, he and the Jean-Marie dude with Owen landed the taxpayers with Peter Harris…we now know what a disaster the Transport Board has become because of both government’s incompetence and shady deals with corrupt business people.
Dumbville reminds me of Rommel Marshall….desperate.
Passing thru! you are spot on in your analysis shades of Cuba enters my mind ,,,while Barbadians squabble the rest of the world rushes by ,
The Fact being that if all two hundred and seventy five thousand barbadians piss in the ocean it wouldn/t be enough to make a ripple yet the island now is being treated to a handful of dragon slayers who have nothing to offer the country but doom and gloom. So let them carry on at their own peril as day connects to night they will truly reap what they sow and the comissiongs of this world who favors a socialist regime of goverance would have received their just desserts handed to them by a nation of self serving demagogues
Looking back on the Cahill blog, Bushie has to admit admiration for the kind of low-level jackasses who, having made fools of themselves defending the Government is THAT travesty, can now have the temerity and lack of SHAME – to come on this blog to make even bigger JAs of themselves all over again…
How is it even possible to have such LOW self-esteem and still be considered ‘human’…?
Passing thru August 24, 2016 at 9:30 PM #
In contrast to Bdos a phone call to a connected politician in a neighbor state and the project starts the next day . There aren’t lobbyists, tree huggers, disgruntled businessmen ,opposition politicos, burdensome red tape or social commentators to obstruct job creation and economic advancement , etc. No wonder territories in the eastern Caribbean rank higher in ease of doing business.
You mean like BDS used to be in the 70s and early 80s when this country as we know it was built? Before the snivel service thought it their duty to obstruct progress in every possible manner in the name of bureaucracy? Like when there was enough opportunity for all of us and we didn’t have to steal each others’ business daily just to survive? Like when we were governed by people with vision, ambition, boundless energy and the authority to actually get things done? Before we used the national wealth to employ the legions of unemployables who weren’t even qualified to dig yams to forever become our greatest impediment to progress?
Nostalgia.
@ac
Barbados is already gloomy because of a curse DLP
@ Frustrated Businessman
Do YOU mean like back in the 70’s when we did not have such an array of albino-centric vultures seeking to make their fortunes at ANY cost to the country?
…largely because most of them had run off to Australia and Canada because they expected the new black leaders to behave like THEY had when they were in charge?
…and when people like Barrow and Crawford had the self-confidence to tell both black and white where to get off …when they were doing shiite?
Every ‘advanced’ country in this world have checks and balances that must be weighed before large projects are implemented to ensure that all interests are properly considered. Why the hell should those with money have any right to bulldoze their greed-based projects through without considering the interests of the poor people who have to live with these scams for ever after?
To damn far East is West….
In the same way that Stuart pretend that he did not know anything about Cahill, indirectly, and boldly (knowing that he the deceiver had already sign off on it) declared that they can be no Cahill Project unless he say so. Who is to say that this same deceitful rat has not already given verbal consent to commence phase 1 of the project, and agreed to a phase 2 signing of all prerequisite documents needed for the transparency process. Stuart is not that stupid, or is he, to make another ignoramus mistake that would expose his con a second time. Donville Inniss could only have stated what he stated, if the Hyatt arrangement was not consented.
China’s Ambassador to Barbados, Wang Ke, said the state-owned enterprise China National Complete Plant Import and Export Corporation (COMPLANT), are the contractors for the redevelopment of Wyndham Sam Lord’s Castle Hotel.
The Ambassador also mentioned: “China and Barbados are NEGOTIATING other MAJOR PROJECTS to be FUNDED by China’s preferential loans, such as the RECONSTRUCTION and EXPANSION of Grantley Adams International Airport and Pierhead Marina project in Bridgetown.” [Loop News, November 26, 2015]
Barbados entered a Preferential Buyer Credit Loan Agreement with China, whereby the Export-Import Bank of China will disburse to the government, a loan in the amount of US$170,000,000.
The purpose of the loan is “to finance 85% of the cost of executing the Commercial Contract entered into by the Barbados Tourism Investment Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the End-User) and the China National Complete Plant Import and Export Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Chinese Contractor) on November 13, 2014 for the execution of the Sam Lord’s Castle Hotel Project.”
The tenor of the loan is 20 years and the repayment terms give Barbados a “Moratorium period of 60 months, thereafter principal will be repaid in 31 payments over 180 months, at a fixed interest rate of 2.5% per annum. The Interest will be payable SEMI-ANNUALLY in ARREARS and CALCULATED on the BASIS of an ACTUAL NUMBER of days ELAPSED and a 360 day year.”
Also attached to the loan is a commitment fee of 25% per annum payable semi-annually and a 25% management fee of US$425,000, which was due 30 days after the contract became effective.
Interestingly, the loan will be “governed” under the laws of China.
SSS
True!
I think you meant above “if the Hyatt arrangement WAS consented”
Fruendel the Fraud would consent in stealth and hide behind the wannabe prime minister Inniss, but time longer than twine….and Inniss deservices to be exposed as the liar that he is.
“How is it even possible to have such LOW self-esteem and still be considered ‘human’…?”
The Bushman…….The ACs and Alvin pimps and yardfowls with low intelligence levels and IQs of -negative 01.
If this blog was not hurtling through cyberspace from coast to coast, no one would believe that they are black people in the world that stupid, despite this being the era of enlightenment.
and Inniss deserves to be exposed as the liar that he is….
“Interestingly,the loan will be governed under the laws of China”.Another example that beggars cannot be choosers.So much for the misfortune of the Moody’s and Standard &Poor’s comments on the junk status of Barbados in the world marketplace and the eminence bestowed by the member for St Michael South on the member for St Michael North West….all wild boys together.
@ WW&C
What else can you expect from these same yard-fowl idiots who tried their best to defend Michael Carrington’s illegal act of with-holding a former client’s property for an inordinate period of time?
WWC
Thanks ma girl. Donville Inniss, another jackal that want to play fly like white holy dove, is another fake ass liar. But but but but buttttt, he could not have declared so emphatically if no affirmations to this project were consented. We know that the DLP are still looking to earn what they did not get from the Cahill scam. There ain’t a boy that can convince me otherwise that the DLP are not looking to make some quick bucks. They continue to operate in secrecy and plan in secrecy. As far as they are concern, Barbadians do not deserve transparency.
SSS…..the nigga mentality being displayed by black leaders…is a very ugly thing.
Well the masses sleep the socialist take claim to the nations problems launched on a platform of transparency that would sway and never give cause to question their validity.
A mechanism that has been used in socialist as well as democractic countries. However a sameness that can be bent into many shapes and sizes and distrubted among the masses on a nationalistic plate
Art…yardfowls and pokitical pimps are programmed to defend anything government does, as long as it’s criminal, corrupt and against the msjority black people…that is the reality.
Here we go again! Total chaos! Permission has been granted. Permission hasn’t been granted. Construction will commence shortly. Is this government for real? Don’t they even care how stupid and bungling they appear? Worse than that Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther! No amount of money and position could compensate me for looking so incredibly stupid in front of 270,000 people!
I pity them.