The Editor
The Anguillian

Dear Mr. Editor:

CONTROLLED
DEVELOPMENT IS
IMPORTANT

I have been a regular visitor to Anguilla for so many years that I think it is time I should apply for a permanent status or naturalization – call it what you may.

In those many years I have been fortunate to see the island develop from a near desert (to which I heard the late Premier Robert Bradshaw of St. Kitts allegedly threatened to make Anguilla) to a flourishing little paradise.

In your issue of 11th March, in a letter to the Editor, Avon Carty wrote an excellent piece on “This Thing Called Development.” I understand the need for development to provide employment and economic prosperity, but I agree with her that the island and its people should be careful about what they do with their land resources.

Clearly, if huge tracks of are sold off and alienated, future generations of Anguillians will find themselves landless and perhaps strangers in an island they call home.

I do not wish to say that Anguilla should remain as it was with not too much development as some other people would say. What I would like to suggest is – yes, have some good development on the island, but that Government should control it. I think there is something called over development and when this happens, it is not all that good.

I have seen that happened in some small island states in several parts of the world where I visited.

John Reviera

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