Antigua and Barbuda: Expropriation In Antigua & Barbuda - Update 2007

20 December 2006
Article by Ian Moncrief-Scott

Antigua & Barbuda has expropriated the private property of United States citizens.

The Government has never offered to purchase the property, the Half Moon Bay Resort, which includes a beach front hotel surrounded by 108 acres of amenities, golf course, estate and development lands. Between nature's gift and its owners' care, the property has been acknowledged by the Travel Channel in 1999 as being set on the best beach in the world....
 
 
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