Quote:The recent plan to build a resort on the other side of Barbuda, by inviting a global investment group led by the American actor Robert De Niro, was in the works before Hurricane Irma. But now the Antigua government has accelerated these plans by calling a snap election , and passing oppressive legislation to dispossess the Barbudans from their land. The new law does this by granting private property deeds to the Barbudans. But also by enclosing them in their historical village, Codrington, and undermining their historical use of commonly held land for farming, grazing of animals, and restricting their use of beautiful pink sand beaches.