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A DAMNING INDICTMENT FROM SKERRETT!
The Aride Island Nature Reserve is now in the hands of the Island Conservation Society (ICS). This news was announced this week, Monday, by the State media after the signing of the agreement between Island Development Company (IDC) and the Island Conservation Society.
The agreement was signed by the chief executive officer of IDC, Glenny Savy, and the chairman of ICS, Adrian Skerrett. It is to be noted that both men sit on the Board of Directors of Corvina. The agreement was signed at the Botanical Gardens with the full backing of the Minister for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr. Ronny Jumeau.
According to Skerrett, “Much of the indigenous vegetation is already gone, but we will be rehabilitating the environment, we will be eradicating rats, reintroduce native birds, and we will have people to monitor and guard against poaching etc.” This is a damning indictment for IDC coming from Skerret. We need to ask ourselves -What has IDC and Glenny Savy been doing all these years? Not that IDC is short of a dime or two – an allocation of ten million rupees annually of the taxpayers’ money for the past twenty years or so, more than 200 million in total, from the government has gone to IDC. This is in addition to funds that IDC has been generating through other dealings.
According to Savy, this association with ICS will open all kind of doors previously out of the reach of IDC. “So all together for us it will be a win-win situation,” Savy said. You can say that again Mr Savy. We agree entirely with you. It is a win-win situation!
ROCHE CAIMAN DEVELOPMENT ANOTHER BAD SPPF PLANNING!
I do not know who is responsible for this little beauty, but whoever it is, that person must surely be the guy that puts the wheel on the deal. A wheeler-dealer the Chinese will call it. Firstly, came the reclaimed land from the sea, believe me it is not easy to create land out of nothing. This they did using up an awful lot of hard currency borrowings which we are still trying to pay back. A square yard of this thing in real money will send you on an appointment with the Governor of the Central Bank. Ok the guy might have his knots in the wrong place but he knows a thing or two about baskets. The last time I saw him on TV he was talking about another basket. He now has two baskets in which to put us in. “Whatttt! You, me, him in a basket?” – “No-no-no you miss the point - I meant USD not you and me or him.” – “You had me worried for a while” - “What has the Central Bank got to do with the market at Roche Caiman?” – “Nothing really, I thought I’ll just tell you this little story about this other market, the currency market.” – “How is our product, the mighty SR doing on this other market, then?” “Not very well, I am afraid. The last time I looked, last week. It costs an arm and a few legs just to buy one miserable pound sterling from Gordon Brown.” - “Gordon who?” – “Forget about it, you don’t know him, he lives in
Now let us get back to the one million plus rupee - sorry USD 200,000 plus market in question. Somebody got rich building it. Who in his right mind decided to build a market right in the middle of a potentially high quality development? Your deduction is as good as mine is. Did they not know that the development was imminent? Now market and sundry have been given to yacht company. Soon the market will be no more.
They did say. Didn’t they? That the citizens of “Kosovo” will be allowed over the bridge to visit the garden inhabited by the first man and woman without the need for a visa. What is this gate I see across the bridge with a mean kind of guy sitting in a hut asking to see our passport? In the final analysis, it is clear that the SPPF pulled wool over the residents’ eyes by giving them a market only to take it away again, voters at Roche Caiman conned again by the SPPF!
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