From mangroves to razor wire at Mt Hartman

The Planning and Development Authority (PDA) has given planning consent for a boatyard for the storage and maintenance of 150 yachts to be built next to Secret Harbour. A number of local residents and environmentalists are expressing concern that another 5 acres of pristine Mt Hartman mangroves and dry scrub…

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All is not well with
Citizenship by Investment (CBI)

Below we reproduce an article in Now Grenada in case you missed it. Debunking myths about myths   8 November 2022 On 4 November 2022, the Grenada Citizenship by Investment Committee, in collaboration with the Investment Migration Council (IMC), hosted a public symposium entitled ‘Demystifying Investment Migration’. Speakers were Bruno…

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Why has Coral Cove been given CBI status?

This proposed development was given Citizenship By Investment (CBI) Approved Project status under the previous government administration and the developer, Charis Group, is already advertising this hotel as an approved CBI scheme: www.ccgrenada.com  This means that non-Grenadians can purchase a stake in the development (plus pay a fee to government) and…

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Coral Cove Turtle Rescue!

Some of this year’s hawksbill hatchlings took a wrong turn to the sea and ended up in the old swimming pool. This is a deep structure with just a little rainwater in the bottom so it’s a mystery how they got in there without falling several feet and damaging themselves.…

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Here’s what it would look like

So now we have an architectural rendering of the hotel planned for Coral Cove. Here is a bird’s eye view taken from the hotel’s marketing website www.ccgrenada.com We made detailed objections to the hotel scheme earlier based on plans submitted http://www.coralcovegrenada.org/2022/03/31/why-planning-consent-should-be-refused/ but this rendering exposes clearly that: It is built…

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Life after “Citizenship by Investment”

What are we going to do with all the half-built hotels when the CBI money stops? And it’s stopping very soon. CBI schemes offer purchasers a second nationality that gives them easy access to countries their native passports would not. Buy a passport from Grenada or one of the other…

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Coral Cove to be CBI funded

According to lawyers Ramdhani & Associates (appointed to represent it at the judicial review hearings), Charis Group expects the Coral Cove hotel "to be a project within the Government of Grenada's Citizenship by Investment Programme" (CBI). This has not been clear previously. So yet another scam is intended here using…

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Not much news to report!

We await the decision by the Planning and Development Authority. We need to plan how we can shift to judicial review quickly if the application is approved. We have pointed out to the Authority a number of discrepancies between the planning application forms and the actual plans submitted. Application Forms…

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Open letter to the
Planning and Development Authority

Mr Carlton Frederick, CEO Planning and Development Authority GNCA Building Kirani James Boulevard St George Date as per email Dear Mr Frederick Application for full planning consent by Charis Group dated 6 January 2022 for land at Coral Cove Further to representations made to you on 21 March 2022 and…

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