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Residents of Union island are continuing to voice their opposition to the recent acquisition by Government of 10.75 acres of beach front land at Campbell, saying they will not take it sitting down.
A picket mounted by a group of residents on Union Island last Sunday, December 4, to protest the acquisition by Government of 10.75 acres of beach front property appears to be in vain, because according to the Chief Surveyor, all that remains is for the previous owners to be paid.
A picket mounted by a group of residents on Union Island last Sunday, December 4, to protest the acquisition by Government of 10.75 acres of beach front property appears to be in vain, because according to the Chief Surveyor, all that remains is for the previous owners to be paid.
EDITOR:When our good friend and benefactor OT Mayers passed away earlier this year, he among other things requested that no flowers or funeral service be held for him because he preferred the ‘flowers when he could smell and enjoy them’ (paraphrased). I felt a sense of relief that seven years earlier, during our 20th anniversary as a non-profit, community service organization, OT was our guest of honour at an awards …
EDITOR: When Union Island was surveyed around the year 1910, the colonial authorities at the time ensured that the peasants were apportioned a small plot in the village for housing, and a large plot in the countryside for farming. The intention was that these slave descendants were given the opportunity to live and to make a living. The Anglican and Catholic churches took the lead in teaching the ways of …