By Orville Williams orville.williams@antiguaobserver.com “People know and are entitled to their land rights. They will stand and prevent persons from breaking the law and denying them of those land rights.” That’s the response from the Chairman of the Barbuda People’s Movement (BPM) and executive member of the Barbuda Council, John…
[Many thanks to David Auerbach and Maritza Stanchich for bringing this item to our attention.] In their article “Communal Land as Survival: Barbuda’s Decolonial World View,” Line Algoed (PhD researcher at Cosmopolis, the Center for Urban Research, at the Geography Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Belgium) and Antonio Carmona Báez (professor of political…
By Carlena Knight Carlena.knight@antiguaobserver.com Although they have seemingly exhausted all legal avenues to halt the selling of lands in Barbuda, BPM Leader Trevor Walker declared he “will continue to fight”. Walker was one of two who brought a case against the Attorney General arguing that lands on the sister isle…
By Robert A. Emmanuel robert.emmanuel@antiguaobserver.com Barbudan Ricardo Nedd said he was happy to hear of the implementation of a Barbudan land registry, however, he also expressed hope that all parties would work collaboratively to achieve a good outcome for all. Nedd made the comments Observer’s Big Issues programme yesterday, and…
By Latrishka Thomas Latrishka.thomas@antiguaobserver.com Two Barbudans may have to fork out EC$141,000 to pay the government’s legal fees after they lost a case they took to the Privy Council, claiming that Barbudans owned land on the sister isle in common. Member of Parliament for Barbuda, Trevor Walker, and current Chairman…