A quick update on the proposed boatyard Many of you have expressed disgust at the proposal to put an industrial boatyard in the mangroves at the top of Mt Hartman Bay. Mangroves will be destroyed, the seabed dredged and piled, the marine environment of the whole Bay will be devastated…
We are preparing a submission to the new Board of the Planning and Development Authority. A draft follows below. If you can provide any insights or suggestions to improve our draft recommendations, please let us have them. If you are any other relevant group (like LAE Association, environmental or conservation…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Tourism and hotel development We need an urgent, objective review of all the major tourism developments: at least Kawana Bay, Levera, La Sagesse, Mt Hartman and Coral Cove. They are all in court for one reason or another: Kawana Bay is subject to a contractual dispute between the last government…
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…
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…
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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