BARBADOS IS BEING advised to build three offshore islands as part of efforts to transform the economy.
Businessman Ralph “Bizzy” Williams and a group of his partners, including his brother, construction magnate Sir Charles Williams, are formulating a plan that includes the establishment of two islands to complement a proposed major hotel project using “the last 80 acres of land in the north that is owned by the people of Barbados”.
He said if pursued it could create a “tourism venue that would be second to none in the Caribbean”.
Additionally, University of the West Indies economics lecturer Dr Troy Lorde thinks Barbados would be transformed if it considered the construction of an island off the Bridgetown Port to facilitate the transshipment of cargo.
They both floated the suggestions on Thursday at a Big Ideas Forum hosted by the Cave Hill School of Business, University of the West Indies. (SC)
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