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SANDALS BEACHES PROJECT MAY BE CANCELLED

March 20, 2019
11:42 pm

Prime Minister Mottley has announced that the Sandals Beaches project in St. Peter may be shelved accusing Sandals of increasing their demands beyond anything the government could consider reasonable.

Miss Mottley said such a deal would amount to a country giving up its right to tax a company.

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