Chelsea Coates

Mayani Jones in Johannesburg. Let's focus on the Caribbean now, and one of its smaller tourist islands. You might have heard of Antigua, but let me tell you Barbuda it's worth at. Barbuda? Really? We got Nelson's Dockyard, English Harbour, and we got the party. Exactly man, you come to Barbuda, you get four beaches to yourself, and not just beaches, pink sand beaches. Pink sand? I'll take swimming.

Barbujaan piirteet ovat erittäin erityisiä, erityisesti keskustalla. Yhden vuoden jälkeen jäätetään rauhassa. Barbujaa on melko pieni puolue. Siinä on vain 2000 ihmistä. Se on melko rauhallinen yhteisö. Paljon ihmisiä, joista puhuin... Yksi niistä on Miranda. Hän on koulutekijä. Hänellä oli piirteet rauhassa.

She was talking about how there's a really kind of slow pace of life. So people kind of go there to play dominoes throughout the week and they go there to relax after church on Sundays. The beach is a community hub for everyone to kind of gather around. It sounds lovely, Chelsea, but what's changed on the beaches now?

Yksi asia, joka muuttuu Barbudaan, mutta myös koko Karabiaan, on se, että kun nämä maat tulevat olemaan yliopistoturvallisempia, he näkevät yhä enemmän kehittäjää menemään ja ostamaan alapuolella. Miranda on itse asiassa ollut vaikuttanut tähän. Joulujärven jälkeen, 2017, koko Barbudaan osa osallistui ison maan Antiguaan.

Her bar and her house were destroyed. She says that this kind of opened the floodgates for lots of offers to people to start offering her money to buy her land. She rejected all of these offers. She said that the money isn't what matters to her. She wants to preserve her bar for her children. But eventually she told me her bar was bulldozed and she's been locked in a legal fight to gain her land back ever since.

I've spoken to the developers that she claims are occupying her land. That's the wording that the Global Legal Action Network uses. That's the network of lawyers that's supporting Miranda. They said that they are not and have never occupied the land, and they've strictly followed all agreements since entering a lease in Barbuda in 2017.

But she argues, like many other campaigners across the Caribbean, that this is about more than just a source of income or having access to a beach because it's a place to relax or kind of catch a suntan. For her it's about her heritage, her culture and her way of life drastically changing and wanting to preserve that for future generations as well.

Chelsea, mitä hallitus tekee kaiken tämän rangailemisen ympäristöön? Ympäristöympäristön lainsäädäntöjen lainsäädäntöjen lainsäädäntöjen lainsäädäntöjen lainsäädäntöjen lainsäädäntöjen lainsäädäntö.

Se tarkoittaa sitä, että osallistujat voivat osallistua maahanmuuttajalle, jos he sopivat maahanmuuttajalle, mutta he eivät todennäköisesti omistaa maahanmuuttajansa. Joten maahanmuuttajat osallistuvat yhteiskunnallisesti, ja osallistujat osallistuvat yhteiskunnallisesta oikeudesta keskustelemaan, mitä tapahtuu jokaiselle maahanmuuttajalle. Se on sellaista omistusjärjestelmää, jota Barbuudassa on ollut, koska maahanmuuttajat loppuivat loppu- tai keskiviikon ajan.

This has complicated a lot of the legal fights that are happening in Barbuda. Campaigners were telling me they feel that the government essentially isn't defending the land laws they have had for centuries on the island. And they feel like it's the start of a slippery slope and they're calling on the government to protect their land. And I've reached out to government officials for a response on this, but so far they haven't got back to me on that.