The Antigua government will vote on Thursday on another amendment to the Barbuda Land Act to allow them to reap the biggest prize of all – the dividing up of Barbuda Land to their friends. Although years and years of their attempts to destroy our community – withholding basic services such as electricity, health, education and hurricane relief – have failed to move us.
Their constant and tedious mis-representation of our independent, strong, resilient rural community, and their exploitation of our natural resources (millions of tons of sand and leases to anyone who has a bit of cash) have failed to persuade the people of Barbuda that anything that the Antiguan government presents to Barbuda is a) honest or b) in our interests.
We are going to be fighting this through the courts to the end. Barbudans who want to be rich can be rich through leasing to investors and many do. PLH can pay their taxes to us instead of their latest shameful, inappropriate idea of building a ‘Poor House’ and Antiguans can stand up for us, because they have the same problems with this government in Antigua. We have a history, since Africans first fought for their freedom in the Caribbean, we are not a stupid people.
