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Hon. Norris Prevost, UWP's Roseau Central MP
Roseau Central MP, Hon Norris Prevost shared with patrons of Market Day With a Difference earlier today the United Workers Party’s (UWP) plans to declare A Clean and Green Agro Tourism Development Zone along Dominica’s fourty miles of prime Caribbean waterfront from Scottshead to Portsmouth.
The UWP MP recalled that “it was the United Workers Party government which created the Southern Eco-tourism Link from Petite Savanne, giving rise to the development of the Jungle Bay Hotel, one of the leading eco-tourism resorts in the world.”
In a similar manner, “the United Workers Party’s Clean and Green Policy will create an Agro Tourism Development Zone along Dominica’s Caribbean waterfront coast, which will make every day a Market Day with a Difference in our Roseau, Mahaut and Portsmouth markets” he said.
According to Prevost, this initiative will be spearheaded by the Dominica Agro Tourism Development Corporation and will be a major source of jobs and economic livelihood for all the people from Scottshead, Soufriere, Pointe Michel, Newtown, Bath Estate and the Roseau Valley to Roseau, Pottersville,Canefield, Massacre, Mahaut, and St.Joseph, all the way to Salisbury, Morne Ratchet, Coulibistrie, Colihaut, Dublanc to Portsmouth and for all the farmers island-wide who will be supplying these markets.
The Dominica Agro Tourism Development Corporation will be a partnership between government agencies such as Port Authority, Invest Dominica, AID Bank, Social Security and private sector entities such as dive and tour operators, boat owners, farmers, and Dominicans at home and abroad.
Hon Norris Prevost went on to outline four key components of the Clean and Green Agro Tourism Development Zone.
- Development of the Roseau, Mahaut and Portsmouth markets into full Agro Tourism markets that include market tours to view handicraft making, as well as cocoa, coffee,farine and other traditional agro processes
- Cleanup, stabilization, protection and sustainable development of the ten rivers from Roseau to Portsmouth namely, Roseau, Canefield, Check Hall, Belfast Layou, Maccoucherie, Batalie, Colihaut, Dublanc and Indian rivers
- Protection and sustainable enhancement of Botanic Gardens and Trois Pitons World Heritage Site and
- The sustainable development of the more than 40 miles of prime water front on the Caribbean Sea from Scottshead to Portsmouth
Prevost called on patrons and Dominicans to “feel confident in embracing the New Clean and Green Policy to rebuild [Dominica’s] agriculture and Tourism.”
