Tag Archives: De Niro

The real De Niro story emerges – and Happy New Year!

After Telegraph journalist Gordon Rayner visited Barbuda to cover Prince Harry’s visit here, he heard the facts of the De Niro story from local people and decided to cover it. Now the real story of Gaston Brownes’ intentions for his Economic Envoy are making headlines round the world – to turn this wildlife paradise into […]

Casino Confirmed

This Australian online gambling site reports that the Packer/De Niro casino will go ahead on Barbuda despite Ambassador Boufany’s over-reaction to any opposition to it and subsequent uninformed comments on the Forbes article.  All this highlights is that if you have enough money you could ask for a Noah’s Ark full of Albino Animals and […]

BPM challenge the government in Court

BPM have filed a class action in the court to challenge the unconstitutional Paradise Found Act (which was passed in one day to give immediate access to the lands of Barbuda to Robert De Niro and billionaire James Packer for their ‘Paradise Found’ project) The action contests that the government has compulsorily acquired and taken […]

New York Times reports the De Niro story

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The New York Times has reported accurately the news about De Niro and the opposition to his project from Barbudans. Those of us who live here have yet to see any evidence of income from this project being spent on the island – the economic situation on Barbuda continues to worsen.

The international community wakes up to De Niro

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The news that some of the island’s residents are unhappy with the planned Paradise Found project is reaching a wider readership as the UK papers pick up the details of the story. The passage last week of the so-called Paradise Found Bill cleared a major hurdle to the $250m development on the site of the run-down […]

The Paradise Found Bill – a response

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PARADISE FOUND PROJECT BILL 2015 The Bill is a direct circumvention of the proceedings currently before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Justice: MACKENZIE FRANK v ATTORNEY GENERAL AND COUNCIL (Frank represents the supporters of the Barbuda Peoples Movement). The hearing of this case is due in December 2015. People never objected to 251 acre […]

Judicial Review granted in De Niro (Paradise Found) case

A Judicial Review has been granted to the people of Barbuda Peoples Movement (BPM) led by Mackenzie Frank, who opposed the process of offering a further 1000+ acres of land to Robert de Niro and James Packer in addition to their K Club lease, under the title Paradise Found project. The Supreme Court judges set […]

De Niro continues to ignore the land issue

In spite of mounting local concern; anger about their complete disregard and ignorance of the Barbuda Land Act, and the lack of proper consultation with Barbudans according to this Act (we still don’t know the details of the deal) Mr de Niro continues to promote Barbuda as a place ripe for development. Presumably because he […]

Trinidad Guardian values the De Niro proposal – $17 USD per acre

Trinidad Guardian Mark Wilson Published:  Sunday, March 15, 2015 It sounds like the ultimate Caribbean island comedy. There’s Robert De Niro in a starring role and Princess Diana in the back-story; there’s Australian billionaire James Packer, whose father, Kerry, ran World Series Cricket. For the backdrop, there are pink-and-white beaches, clear blue waters, a frigate bird […]