Last Updated on November 25, 2019, 3:41 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Federal Minister of Tourism, Hon Lindsay Grant, had promised an underwater hotel for St Kitts last year, but it seems a distant dream as the idea is still to materialise.
In February 2018 he said that St Kitts will be the first to construct an underwater resort not only in the twin Island but also in the world. However, the promise seems to have been fall short as there has been no progress on the proposed plan.
During a meeting last year, Minister Grant told the Federation’s residents that they just announced Ritz Carlton resort which will have 125 rooms on the south east peninsula in addition to 25 branded villas for the guests. He said that are expecting to create over 300 jobs for the people during the construction stage of the resort and further around 250 more jobs will be created during development stage of the hotel.
He said in the assembly that they have been negotiating with what he would call a cutting-edge hotel which they expect to come during the currency of this year and early next year. “The most I’ll say about it Speaker, the cutting edge nature of it, it will be an underwater hotel, the first of its kind in the world, St Kitts always coming first,” he added.
As WINN FM also reported in February 2018, the tourism minister said the people of the country would soon hear more about the avant-garde development, one he called a first of its kind in the world.
Grant told Speaker that the developers will be those who would have developed and had a significant interest in the Palm Island in Dubai and so very shortly we’re going to come to the Federation with more details, on that development suffice to say that it will be the first of its kind not only in the Caribbean but in the world.
Since that announcement, minister Grant and Prime Minister Harris have also not delivered on the start of construction of the underwater hotel, the Ritz-Carlton and the Six Senses.
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