Tag Archives: sustainability

Barbuda Ocean Festival

Taken from Barbudango facebook page – the organisers of our annual Barbuda Ocean Festival, this year held on December 4th. It was kindly sponsored by Barbuda Belle hotel, Blue Halo, Deborah Brosnan and others. ‘If you missed Ocean Festival 2021, you missed one whale of a time! We are all still recovering from the fun […]

Council meet with APUA to discuss energy infrastructure

Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) have met with the Barbuda Council to discuss ways it will improve our energy resources, and give better resilience for future energy requirements for the island. Hurricane Irma destroyed 95% of the existing (inadequate and under-resourced) electricity and water supply on Barbuda, including the out-dated and unreliable diesel-generator power plant […]

Barbuda Green Energy

The Government of Antigua and Barbuda Press Release states: ‘…it is collaborating with the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other partners in implementing an innovative green energy electricity hybrid solution for Barbuda. The project will see the installation of a completely new electricity power station, a 720 kWp solar photovoltaic facility, and […]

Another lease approved – 1000 acres at Gravesnor Landing

This Stanhope Shepherd proposal to take up land at Gravenor Bay and Spanish Point (which is a National Park and as such cannot be developed) has been on the cards since 2011 when it came before the UPP government and was rejected as not having the necessary capital to proceed. The same group then informed […]