CABINET NOTES: The Joint Coordinating Committee consisting of the Barbuda Council and members of Cabinet was scheduled to meet on Thursday 10th October. The members were to discuss an agenda of ten substantive matters to include the matter of expansion of renewable energy, the construction of a new primary school, $50 million to be spent on roads. No new date has been set.
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The Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda will ban the export of sand from both Antigua and Barbuda, but to continue to allow for the mining of sand for domestic use. The Barbuda Council has asked for an indefinite delay in the meeting of a Joint Consultative Committee.
ii. The Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda will likely place a prohibition of sand exports in law in a phased approach, given the harm done to the environment by removal of sand in large quantities from Barbuda.
An environmental expert gave an assessment on the quantum of sand removed over the past 50 years and the impossibility of continuing for even a short period; the expert addressed the impact of sand removal on fresh water aquafers (brackish water), sand dunes as high as 12 to 14 ft., and the harm to coral reefs (that reduce wave energy during storms and ground swells).
The Cabinet therefore agreed to ban the fishing of parrot fish which produce much of the sand that encases the 62 square miles of land of Barbuda.
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