Mac: Not ‘bout hey!
Rudolph "Corky" Inniss making a point at last night's town hall meeting. (Ricardo Leacock)
By Mike King | Fri, February 10, 2012 - 12:05 AM
St Philip residents, with the irrepressible Mac Fingall and nine-time Calypso monarch Red Plastic Bag, gave the thumbs down to a proposed multi-million dollar tourism development resort at White Haven and Skeete’s Bay they feel will have a social impact on those communities.
Bag (Stedson Wiltshire) and Fingall were part of a standing room only audience at the St Catherine Sports & Social Club at Bayfield, that gave a disapproving nod to a proposal from businessman Paul Doyle to build 91 units across 50 acres on the stretch along White Haven that will have impact on that area and its environs.
Part of the access that leads to the proposed Beach House at Culpepper project is on family land owned by Fingall’s family and the former schoolteacher had no hesitation in refusing to sell the lot.
“I have rejected their offer because it is family land, my uncle used to own it, my brother used to own it, now we own it. They are not getting it. I don’t know how they are going to get in, but from what I gather is that they plan to go down Skeete’s Bay and come around. However they do it, is going to disrupt what we are accustomed to.
“Rich for these means money. Rich for we means the way we live . . . giving each other a breadfruit. We still live rich, we always used to live a rich life, but we didn’t know, we thought we were poor,” Fingall said.
Doyle, who is also the owner of the nearby Crane Beach Hotel, told an audience that included Member of Parliament (MP) Michael Lashley and Olympic bronze medallist Jim Wedderburn, that he had bought the land at Skeete’s Bay about four years ago and had been developing and designing a single storey resort there that is intended to have 62 residences, two restaurants, with 160 feet set back from the cliff edge.
He said that every unit will have a swimming pool and a sea view, there will be preservation of existing trees and plans are in store to restore the Wiltshire Plantation House.
The application for the resort is now before Town & Country Planning and so too is an application to turn the fish market at Skeete’s Bay into a restaurant.
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Clear case of power to the “little” people?? Just asking, just asking.
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Comment LinkOK, Mac, keep your land; no-one can force you to sell. BTW, The Crane Resort (which a union tried to stall by black-listing incoming building materials at the Port) has transformed St. Phillip; employs several hundred folks, full-time and part-time; and pulls in Foreign Exchange, which I use every day to enjoy a nice slice of Fibre 6 bread. If anyone can please discover how to make omelets without breaking eggs, please head for CBC-TV immediately; I’ll look for it on the “news”. Alternatively, ask a 25 year-old out-of-work Phillipian if they would consider a full-time, long-term job with a solid company that has shown bajans how to creatively maximise our resources ; market them effectively; and to keep that FX coming in…the youngsters just might have a different point-of-view.
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Comment LinkWhen landowners recognize the real value of their birthright, it is heartening. I am able to remember the pleasant changes in the early ‘60s when all Barbadians were finally able to have access to beaches up to the high water mark. Subsequent improvement the country was not seen as such by all and there was significant migration by one Barbadian sector. The ability to view the sea from some areas of our the coast road presents for periodic discussion. Prevention is still better than cure and all genuine efforts to preserve access such as that described need to be supported. In another place, this time is referred to as Black History Month. Thank you, Mr Fingall.
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Comment LinkHe already bought the land..so what can you do but keep noise?
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Comment LinkPower usually boils down to MONEY and POLITICAL CLOUT! Which side has more of these two commodities?? *That* will determine the outcome.
Suggest locals hold on to their land.
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Comment Linkits a great feeling to see some Bajans are willling to stand up an try to save some of our ways of life and not selling out. Growth is good but i not believe these resorts provide much benefits for the the local people. Just take a look at most areas where these many resorts pop-up, there are always issues of access by the LOCAL people the beaches and views of the oceans. Barbados is simply being over-developed mostly for the benefit of people who are not even from here!
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Comment Link@ Ricky Yami: Bajans have been trying their best to fight for the longest time, but who takes them seriously and who supports them? Surely not the ones who should matter, the very ones who sniff around with sweet talk and promises trying to solicit an X.
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