FORMER Prime Minister Perry Christie said the Minnis administration would make a “fundamental error” if it leases crown land in the Colonial Beach area of Paradise Island to Royal Caribbean International. RCI wants to lease the ten eastern-most acres of the 17-acre crown land tract as part of its Royal Beach Club destination which it wants up and running by late 2022. Mr Christie told reporters yesterday that giving the cruise line what it wants would push against decades of policy and prompt anger from Bay Street businesses, resorts like Atlantis, The Pointe, Baha Mar and other cruise lines. Philip “Brave” Davis, leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, said over the weekend that a PLP government would cancel the deal if it comes to power.

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