Commoners in the Harbour Island commonage district are hoping to get commonage rules and parts of the Commonage Act changed, but Attorney General Carl Bethel told Guardian Business that any changes that group wants will have to be widely consulted on with commoners throughout The Bahamas.

North Eleuthera commoner and Harbour Island Commonage Committee Assistant Treasurer Ben Simmons said that the attorney general’s office has received his committee’s proposed changes to the Commonage Act and commonage rules, which he said have been ratified by Harbour Island commoners.

Bethel said those requests have not come across his desk as yet.

But Simmons contended that if the government wants to move forward with its proposed changes to the North Eleuthera Airport, it will have to make changes to the Commonage Act and ratify the Harbour Island Commonage Committee’s rules changes in order to use that land.

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