Chelsea Coates
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69 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Chelsea Coates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Practically, what that means is that individual citizens have the right to occupy a plot of land if they apply for a lease to the local authority, but technically they don't privately own that land.
So instead, all land is owned communally and citizens share the collective right to be consulted on what happens to any said plot of land.
That is the kind of system of ownership that they've had in Barbuda ever since slavery ended in the late or mid-18th century.
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 that 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.
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