Caribbean Times 34th Issue - Friday 11th November 2016

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Friday 11th November 2016
Dundas calls on merchants and vendors to be patient
By Joanna Paris
President of the Antigua
and Barbuda Cruise Tourism
Association, Nathan Dundas,
has called on merchants and
vendors who ply their trade at
Heritage Quay to “be a little
more patient”.
His comments come as he
admits that he has received
several complaints from persons,
who are disappointed
that the work being done to
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expand the Heritage Quay
Pier is seemingly affecting
their sales, when cruise ships
are in port.
Currently, the vessels
who call to the country’s port
are now docked in the Bevis
Street Pier and Redcliffe
Quay area.
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in the cruise industry.
Head of the Cruise Tourism Association,
Nathan Dundas, and Managing Director of
the Antigua Pier Group, Saiid Greene, have
expressed confidence that the work will be
completed on time and that everything will be
ready for the vessel and its estimated 5000 passengers
and roughly 4000 crew.
“I am very confident that we will meet
the target date and we have already advised
the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line of this. The
RCCL team that was to visit Antigua for a
site-inspection, will now arrive on the island
next week. We have also dispatched the allclear
to RCCL and I am proud to say that the
vessel will dock at the Heritage Quay pier on
December 2nd as planned,” Dundas declared.
The Antigua Pier Group official said he is
‘quite pleased’ with the current state of readiness
ahead of the vessel’s arrival. “We lost
some ground in undertaking this project, but I
am pleased to be able to report that we have
since made up for lost time. I have no doubt
Dundas said the complaints
all suggests that the
visitors venture into other
directions in opposed to previously
when the Heritage
Quay area was presented
right in front of them.
“The dock is scheduled
to be finished very shortly. It
will be finished for the 2 nd of
December so it is just a matter
of weeks before the Heritage
Quay Pier will be opened
again, so we are asking vendors
and the merchants to be
patient”, he stressed.
Dundas was a guest on
ABS’s Against the Backdrop.
Let’s go for a swim!
By Renio Abbott
When Police arrived at the scene, a
4-door Sedan R2687 was found swimming
in a pond-like ditch on Sir George Walter
Highway, opposite of Island Provisions Ltd.
The Blue Toyota Vista was facing north and
had to be removed by a wrecker for transportation
to Police Headquarters.
Both occupants of the vehicle have been
so far uncooperative with police leaving
them unable to identify the driver or the circumstances
surrounding the crash; they have
been taken into custody at Police Headquarters.
that we will be ready, however, this means that
we have to continue working around the clock
and not to become complacent at this time,”
Greene noted.
He also heaped praise on the Antigua and
Barbuda men and women who have received
sub-contracts for various aspects of the project
for what he termed ‘the fine job they are
doing’.
He explained that the contract was awarded
to an international firm in consultation with
the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association, but
that several local companies also benefits from
sub-contracting.
According to Greene the just-ended summer
was the worst summer season for cruise
tourism in a long time and the expansion of
the pier will guarantee a marked turnaround in
number of calls for summer 2017.
Additionally, he noted that the new re-fuelling
services being offered by The West Indies
Oil Company in collaboration with Royal
Dutch Shell company only serves to enhance
Antigua as a major cruise port.