Tourism Minister Grant's promised underwater hotel still awaited

An underwater hotel for St Kitts, promised Federal Minister of Tourism, Hon Lindsay Grant, is still to materialise. Grant made the promise in February 2018 that an underwater hotel in St Kitts will be a first not only for St Kitts and Nevis but also the world.

“We announced the Ritz Carlton which will be hundred and twenty-five rooms on the south-east peninsula in addition to twenty-five branded villas that we are expected to create more than 300 jobs during the construction stage only and more 250 jobs during the hotel development process. I also want to tell Mr Speaker, that we've been negotiating with I would call a cutting-edge hotel which we expect to come while the currency of this year, early next year. The most I’ll say about it Mr. Speaker, the high-tech nature of it, it will be an underwater hotel, the first of its kind in the world, St Kitts always coming first,” Grant told residents during a meeting if the St Kitts and Nevis National Assembly.

As WINNFM also reported in February 2018, the tourism minister said the people of the country would soon hear more about the avant-garde development, one he called a first of its kind in the world.

“I want to tell you that developers are those who would have developed and had significant interest in the Palm Island in Dubai and so very shortly we’re going to come to the country with more details Mr. Speaker, on that development suffice to say that it will be the first of its kind not only in the Caribbean but also in the world,” said Grant.

Since that announcement, Mr Grant and Prime Minister Harris have also not delivered on the start of construction of the underwater hotel, the Ritz-Carlton and the Six Senses.