Environmentalist on the island of Grand Bahama, Joe Darville is calling on the developers of the proposed Six Senses Resort to support local agriculture.
Darville told ZNS News, “one of the reasons why we’re not having sufficient and progressive development in farming and producing food, vegetables and so on for sale to the supermarkets, the hotels etc. is because the governments, not just PLP, but all the governments have been very comfortable in the taxation and the VAT that they get from all of the importation of everything that goes into the supermarkets.”
Weller Development Partners has expressed their commitment to farming through their proposed eat and grow program.
The environmentalist added, “so we have to be very progressive in this regard and have an ongoing discussion with the Six Senses, with the developers, to make sure. Because even when I posed the question to them the could not be specific about anything. Even when I said to them that its difficult now for farmers to even produce because they do not have the wherewithal, the financial resources and the manpower to produce enough on a large scale to even supply.”
Darville suggests that the Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Sciences Institute (BAMSI) should have a presence on major island in the country.
