BARBADOS (The Nation):
"TODAY YOU can be a landowner. Tomorrow you can end up with nothing."
That was how Opposition member Denis Kellman summed up the Land Acquisition Act Tuesday in the House of Assembly.
"The vendor has a right to decide what compensation he wants for property. Nobody has the right to dictate what the vendor should get. The vendor should be able to decide whether he wants land or money or both. We can't use the Land Acquisition Act against the masses of the country," Kellman stated.
He warned there could be situations where land was acquired for one purpose and could be passed on to people who could not get it.
