Prospect Reef property now an eyesore, shame & disgrace– Skelton-Cline - Calls on VI Gov’t to develop property into a 4-star facility
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Honestly Speaking radio show host Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called on the Government of the Virgin Islands to rebuild the Prospect Reef facility into a 4-star hotel a priority, given the increase in visitors to the territory through American Airlines.
2023-06-14 13:31:37 - VI News Staff
“We need a decent four-star branded hotel and all of the other surrounding accoutrements to line that beautiful piece of the waterfront that has become a sore eye now for the last 10 to 12 years,” he said on his show on ZBVI 780 AM on June 6, 2023.
The commentator called it a shame and a disgrace and accused the government of not having the will to even demolish the buildings and clear the path for rebuilding.
The Prospect Reef Hotel and Resort was destroyed by the hurricanes of 2017 and has been left abandoned since then.
More beds needed in VI- Skelton-Cline
“If this government wants to flex its muscle as it enhances airlift, expand the runway, simultaneously you got to have beds and to ensure bodies in those beds and to ensure more planes [are] coming. American, Delta, JetBlue, you name it, people have to have places to lay their heads.
“Of course, we have a tremendous marine sector, which can also be expanded and we do have more beds on the water than we have on land, but that's not an excuse for us to continue to be derelict in our duty and not develop that space formally, Prospect Reef, and indeed our entire waterfront,” he added.