http://www.bimre.com/is-barbados-forfeiting-its-environment-in-the-name-of-property-development/ News, announcements and other fine ramblings about the Barbados real estate market. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.bimre.com/is-barbados-forfeiting-its-environment-in-the-name-of-property-development/comment-page-1/#comment-576 Ronald Brooks Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:39:11 +0000 http://www.bimre.com/?p=745#comment-576 As with anything else there has to be a balance - it is kind of a chicken and egg situation. If there is no beautiful coastline, then there is no incentive for investors, whether local or from outside of Barbados, to build properties, villas, hotels etc. The relevant experts (technocrats) who have the responsibility to ensure that Barbados' coastlines are not abused will have to do their jobs to ensure that that "reasonable" development can take place without the coastline being compromised, whether onshore or offshore. As with anything else there has to be a balance – it is kind of a chicken and egg situation. If there is no beautiful coastline, then there is no incentive for investors, whether local or from outside of Barbados, to build properties, villas, hotels etc.
The relevant experts (technocrats) who have the responsibility to ensure that Barbados’ coastlines are not abused will have to do their jobs to ensure that that “reasonable” development can take place without the coastline being compromised, whether onshore or offshore.

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