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By Orville Williams orville.williams@antiguaobserver.com The much-anticipated upgrades to the Barbuda River Dock are in limbo, several months after a new ferry fee was established to raise money to fund them. The Barbuda Council had long called for improvements to the dock facilities, including work on the dock structure itself and…

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…