WINDWABD ISL*ND8« OPINION SATPflDAY JULY 28; 1962

the Antilles or-will be sentenoe past by the Judge will forwarded gratis hy the' ; then be considered as a "Bill of of the Windward islands; St* Sale" of fegal deed of ownership* Maarten* In] order that effort can be given to ************ the right 8 of all persons in the re- gistration of'allreal estate in afore- HOTEL PROJECTS ON THE ISLAND • named islands, application on or before the 31st of December 1962, is of major "For sometime there have been talks' importance to those entitled* about the oonstruotion of two or three']] The Administrator of Finance largo hotels in" the Lowlands "Area - In the *" At one*'time there were two Groups the "Miller-group" and the Goodman-Tan- tfe* have "received many letters from" nerbaum-group" Sach of these groups our readers abroad asking for further at the time expressed the desire to information"on said notice, beoause of construct a 100-room hotel whidh when these letters wo had"an interview with ocmpleted"would cost around $2;000;000.« the gentleman in"oharg_e of the Land re- and they both applied to the Federal gistry office hofb, and again as a pub- Government for a Mortgage loan of lic service we are publishing the in- $750*;000*— to whioh the Federal formation which was given to usi Government agreed in principle* We were told by this gentleman that Since then however the "Miller-group" the main~purposQ of the forms mentioned for reasons unknown, has withdrawn in the above notice is to determine per- and the "Goodman-Tannenbaum-group" sons who have olaiin to land but who for has decldted "build a 200-room hotel in- one of the other reason do not have th* stead of a 100-room hotel, in the proper documents or deeds of ownership; area of Mullet Pond Bay which when and then"to assist such persons if they completed will oost about C3;000;006'*— are the rightful owners to obtain" the and has* applied to the Federal*Govern- proper documents or deeds of ownership* ment "for a mortgage loan of 8l;5OO;000*-| He went on to explain that* Before 1870 The remainder'df the money will be when one bought land ho received a financed by private oapital* The Cen- "Soabinale Ac to" this* was a deed of tral Commission of tte Staten of the ownership which"was drawn up by -the mem- Netherlands Antilles approved this bers of the Court of Justice of the is- mortgage loan on June 29; 1962/ land "on whioh the land was situated*. It is hoped that oonstruotion of After 1870 this was^ohanged, and when this hotel will^soon be started* one bought land; he"received a "Bill of Sale" which had tc be drawn up by the -life were informed that the Antillian tnyer and the seller in the presence of Hotel Company has plans to build's. a Notary Public'- However'Jbefore beocming 100-room hotel at the foot of Fort the legal owner; the buyer has to. have Amsterdam whioh is olose to the Little the "Sill of Sale" inscribed in the re- Bay Hotel - The Little ^y Hotel which gisters of the Conservator of Mortgages* was officially opened in 1955 and He further gave as an example* If seme . whose fifst guest was H,M»'Queen one" bought a pieoe of land before the Juliana of the Netherlands, is the year 1870; and had a "Soabinale Aote" for most modern and*up-to-date hotel on the island and rates among the very said land^ and Sold the land to some one*' else after 1870, but only"gave the buyer test "tourist resorts in the entire a reoeipt on a stamped pepor - The last Caribbean- The Little Bay"Hotel Corpo- buyer according to law is not the cwner ration, which owns and operates the of the land in question, even though he Little Bay Hotel, is owned by the may have some olaim to it* Antillian Hotel Company* Aooordingjfc'c the* gent lemon in.charge "-The Island^investment Corporation of "the Land" registry office, after the are now working on plans too onsb ruot forms have been turned'ln at his offioe a hotel at "Break-water"* a Committee will' be formed to study the forms and kiake recommendation to tttie -For a long time nothing has been Court of Justice, in order that the*' heard about the Cupoooy Bay Hotel grid Judge may past sentence/as to who are Home site Iro* - This company •was the owners of "lands where the ownership supposed to build a hotel (Bunglow is doubtful or questionable* And the type) at Cupeoby ^ay ; and nad evax

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