Activists warn over Blackbeard's Cay

Mon, Nov 23rd 2015, 01:15 PM

 

A LOCAL environmental group yesterday warned Prime Minister Perry Christie that it would notify the cruise ship industry of the continued and illegal operation of Blackbeard’s Cay should his administration not take immediate action to shut down the controversial tourism project. 
Save The Bays (STB) CEO Vanessa Haley-Benjamin, in an open letter to Mr Christie, said Mr Christie’s failure to personally see to the “immediate closure” at Blackbeard’s Cay as directed by a previous Supreme Court order would no doubt cause the cruise ship industry “to be considerably alarmed to learn that they may be contributing to a facility that has been deemed unlawful by the courts”...

A LOCAL environmental group yesterday warned Prime Minister Perry Christie that it would notify the cruise ship industry of the continued and illegal operation of Blackbeard’s Cay should his administration not take immediate action to shut down the controversial tourism project. 

Save The Bays (STB) CEO Vanessa Haley-Benjamin, in an open letter to Mr Christie, said Mr Christie’s failure to personally see to the “immediate closure” at Blackbeard’s Cay as directed by a previous Supreme Court order would no doubt cause the cruise ship industry “to be considerably alarmed to learn that they may be contributing to a facility that has been deemed unlawful by the courts”...

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