PM addresses issue of land scarcity for potential buyers
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has commented on the decades old problem with scarcity of public sector lands for sale in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Speaking on the Browne and Browne radio show last Saturday, the Prime Minister shed some light on the issue for prospective buyers.
“The public sector and the public entities, they don’t have a lot of lots available”, he said. “For every lot that they cut, there are at least ten applications.”
As an alternative, the Prime Minister encouraged residents to go after private sector land, which are located in better areas even though it might be a little bit more expensive.
“There are lots available in the private sector…but what seems to be happening with a number of people is that they are waiting to get the cheaper government land.”
Prime Minister Browne admitted that there doesn’t seem to be an easy fix to this issue, and hints at the problem becoming more compounded as time goes on.
“I can’t tell you that there’s going to be any overnight solution to this problem”, the PM stated. “This is not gonna get any better because, more and more you have a situation in which government land is becoming extremely scarce.”
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Luka Johnson April 29, 2025, 12:26 PM
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If them buy up land like it going out of style what do they expect.
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