{"id":6826,"date":"2015-10-01T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2015-11-25T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T23:04:15","slug":"what-sort-of-development-is-tourism-bringing-to-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/10\/what-sort-of-development-is-tourism-bringing-to-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"What sort of development is tourism bringing to the Caribbean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bahamas“We often talk about having development that will provide jobs and give us access to a better life. However, these days, it seems that this is merely a pipe dream”, writes Ian Betthell Bennett in the Nassau Guardian.<\/p>\n

“The Bahamas now boasts anchor developments on many of its islands, and everyday we open a new high-end exclusive resort where the rich and famous will come to frolic uninterrupted by commoners.<\/p>\n

Once the resort has purchased all the requisite permissions and paid all its facilitators to allow development unhindered, they are free to exclude as they choose. The creep is on. Yes, they may provide some work, but they provide little else.<\/p>\n

Ian Strachan talks about the resort being the new plantation. But this is a plantation that we have chosen, we have sought after and encouraged, in fact, often begged to come to our shores.”<\/p>\n

In Brief<\/h6>\n