The latest strategy in the attempt to force the unwanted Paradise Found project on the people of Barbuda is unveiled in the Antigua Observer today. The government will fast track a Paradise Found Bill to facilitate it. Barbudans did not give the project the ‘official go-ahead’ in March, but as usual the ignorance of the Antiguan press when it comes to reporting accurate Barbuda current affairs rises to the surface in every article about this project. Even the name Paradise Found smacks of colonialism. As P J Patterson recently said to the UK Prime Minister about his revisionist view of the Atlantic trade in slaves, ‘The ‘resilience and spirit’ of our people is no ground to impair the solemnity of a privileged Parliamentary occasion and allow the memory of our ancestors to be offended once again.’ He could have been talking to de Niro.
