Small Island Planning

Exploring Caribbean islands and the ways we can work to build resilient, equitable futures.

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"After enslaved people rose up in the Haitian revolution, ending French colonial rule at the turn of the 19th century, France demanded 150m francs in reparations, with payments only ending in 1947."

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"Has any nation ever paid or received reparations for slavery?

The UK compensated plantation owners the modern equivalent of £17bn after slavery’s abolition in 1833, but enslaved people and their descendants were not compensated."

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We talk about road widening, public transportation and why road use can be more important than road space when dealing with traffic

Available now here: https://t.co/023JJan1pS

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Latest: This island is too small for all this traffic.

Where we delve into traffic congestion in Barbados, an already existing plan and how the island can get moving again.

Hope you’ll have a read!

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In 2024 Barbados, we were able to find 6,900 Airbnb listings across the island.

Today the ministry shared that there are 6,000 rooms available within hotels and villas and 7,000 vacation rentals registered.

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Today it was encouraging to hear Barbados’ Ministry of Tourism and International Transport commit to a study to measure the impact of short term rentals (like Airbnb and VRBO) on housing for residents.

https://t.co/NUl1I62FNI

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If you have similar interest we wrote an article last year about short term rentals in many countries in the region, including Barbados, that have seen massive growth and rising concern about the impact of short term rentals on existing housing

https://t.co/2wDW5KPiaw

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CARICOM moves to accelerate reparations campaign

https://t.co/4ZxPOUZFEA

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The Drax family should not continue to benefit off land in the Caribbean, and more specifically should not be allowed to jeopardise the food sovereignty of Caribbean islands to enrich themselves even further.

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Urban Divided highlights the problematic nature of the proposal to subdivide Drax Hall Plantation in Barbados into residential lots.

Link: https://t.co/1X28usdfWE

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@MissRheaDawn When we grabbed the data back in January, there were ~6,900 properties listed on AirBnB. So for about every 41 Bajans, there was one property listed on AirBnB. That’s bound to have an impact at some point

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Wrote about this in January but the impact on the housing market (rental and ownership) is one of the reasons large cities are putting restrictions on short term rentals (like Airbnb).

You can check it out here:
https://t.co/TqqurCKrSN

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Easier to see when on map but Barbados had 6,900 Airbnb listings in January. At the time, only 80% were active, which lines up with the 4,000 number mentioned in another article.

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Agents warn soaring prices, short-term lets lock Bajans out of rental market https://t.co/zLDseGVUXz

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full text on substack:

https://t.co/nZg3NFzpbc

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Across 29 countries, there were 185,000 properties listed on AirBnB.

79% had more short term rentals to every 1,000 residents than New York City (which sees almost double the amount of tourists annually as the Caribbean)

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Palm Springs limits how much of a neighborhood can be short term rentals. Atlanta limits how many properties one person can have as a short term rental. Nantucket voted to only allow residents to have permits so the money made stays local.

There are options.

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Latest: Short Term Rental, Long Term Impacts

We looked at the impact of short term rentals on Caribbean islands we reviewed AirBnB data for 29 countries.

Here are a few takeaways:

https://t.co/nZg3NFzpbc