BUILDING A 15-storey hotel in Bridgetown could cause Barbados to lose its UNESCO World Heritage inscription.
President of the Barbados National Trust Peter Stevens warned yesterday the World Heritage listing “could be taken away”, as the proposed hotel would overshoot any other existing building in Bridgetown.
The agreement to start construction of the multimillion-dollar Hyatt Centric Resort on Lower Bay Street was signed by local developers Mark Maloney and James Edghill and Hyatt’s senior vice president and head of corporate development and construction Pat McCudden in the presence of Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy last month.
Stevens told the MIDWEEK NATION yesterday: “We are very concerned that it could ultimately lead to our delisting.
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