Resort project on hold.

A Bds$2 billion luxury home development that would have pumped millions of dollars into the economy has been put on hold by Sandy Lane resort, reports The Barbados Nation (March 24, 2008):

One hundred and eleven villas were slated for construction on the Green Monkey Golf Course in St

James, a project that had been hailed as the single largest investment ever made in Barbados. The resort gave no reason for halting the project, but a statement by Al Hart, the hotel's public relations firm, read: "There is no current timetable as to when any villas or homes on the Green Monkey site will be built";

Details of the project were made public nearly four years ago, with developers taking a tough stance: not a single lot would be constructed unless a decision was made on the future of the Mangrove Pond landfill located upwind of the resort. At the time, former Sandy Lane executive Michael Davern said that while the landfill appeared to be managed much better than when he first joined Sandy Lane four years earlier, it still presented significant challenges for the country club located less than a kilometer downwind of the dump. "We are a five-diamond property, and if you do not take care of these things up front, they will come back to haunt you."