Dominica National Park boundaries sacrificed for hotel development
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Dominica National Park boundaries sacrificed for hotel development

By TDN Wire Staff
February 24, 2015 10:50 A.M



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Part of the Cabrits National Park.
Roseau, Dominica (TDN) The Dominica government has pushed through legislation in Parliament that will allow it to reduce on Dominica’s National Parks boundaries for the purpose of constructing a luxury hotel.

On Friday February 20, 2015 the government of Dominica passed ‘An Act to Amend the National Parks and Protected Areas Act, Chap 42:02.’ All 21 government members of parliament voted for the measure while the ten opposition United Workers Party (UWP) representatives in voted against.

The passage of the Act allows free reins to Range Development to construct a luxury 100 room hotel on the Cabrits National Park in Portsmouth on the Northern tip of the Island. Financing for the project will come from the government of Dominica allowing the developers to sell Dominican passports. It is expected to cost EC $100 million.

Members for Parliament of the opposition UWP strenuously resisted passage of the legislation arguing that the National Parks of Dominica are crucial to the country’s image as the nature Isle of the World and that this image should not be compromised in the interest of a few investors.

However, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit argued that it was important for the country to do whatever it could to bring development, even if it meant taking away 15 acres of the country’s over 1000 acres of national parks.

No date has been set for commencement of the hotel project.

Range Developments is currently developing the Park Hyatt project in St Kitts which will comprise 200 hotel rooms and 50 branded residential condominiums.

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