By Carlena Knight
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Despite exhausting all legal options, Barbuda’s MP Trevor Walker says Barbudans “will not be playing dead” and giving up on their fight for communal land ownership on the sister isle.
Walker was one of two who brought a case against the Attorney General arguing that lands in Barbuda are owned in common. But on Monday, London’s Privy Council, the country’s final appellate court, ruled in favour of the Gaston Browne-led administration.
For many onlookers, a ruling like this would mean that the Barbudan people must now bow in defeat and conform. But Walker told Tuesday’s Observer AM radio show that “they are not going to subject themselves to purchasing land in Barbuda”.
“All I can tell you and the world is that Barbudans are not going to lay down and play dead and pretend that nothing happened before this. We are…
