The Caribbean state of Dominica is hoping to boost its position as an international travel market through the construction of a new airport capable of serving long-haul flights.
Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit recently revealed that the government has already bought 411 acres (around 1,660,000 square metres) of land.
The new airport, which is set to be located near the existing Dominica Douglas-Charles airport.
The new airport will be entirely funded through contributions from Dominica’s Citizenship for Investment programme.
The government has been setting aside USD5 million income from the programme every year for the last few years.
Dominica Douglas-Charles airport has a single 1,756-metre-long runway and sees only regional services to other destinations in the Caribbean
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Quite amazing really SVG PM Ralph E Gonsalves put SVG in debt to the tune of a billion dollars. Employed the Cubans to build the airport, who took nine years to complete a three year project. The cost of that overrun and six years of not having the airport operating probably has cost not just huge income revenues but has contributed to the backwardness and unemployment problems SVG is experiencing.
All it takes is a citizenship by investment program to pay for the airport. Gonsalves will not hear of it, describes it as selling passports, which everyone with only 10% of their brain working knows otherwise, but not Gonsalves.
Now to the horror of intelligent people he has been reelected, he is a sad old man who has run out of ideas, whose whole being is to support Cuba and Venezuela and other like minded dictators.
And to make it worse he now describes himself as world boss and a five star general. Can you imagine that, when you stop laughing please be assured that is exactly what he thinks he is. He has said so and even put it into writing.