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Oprah a build a big fancy exclusive hotel in Grenada!!! a true?
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">no.
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Yu ask Oprah people dem? or di Grenadian dem pannie board?Comment
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me neva see nutten like dat in the Enquirer or media take out.Comment
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this is all that google telling me
Property abroad: Grenada
Cheryl Markosky, Daily Mail
15 June 2007
Forget Barbados and Mustique, the pipsqueak Caribbean spice island of Grenada is now the talk of the jetset circuit. A flurry of new developments are springing up and a host of celebrities are moving in.
But after decades in the property game, British entrepreneur Peter de Savary is now building his last ever project, on Grenada.
Originally from Essex and now based in Gloucestershire, the 62-year-old, cigar-chomping magnate who has interests literally from end to end of Britain - he owns both Land's End and John O'Groats - has fond memories of the 133-square mile spice island.
He first went there on holiday as a boy in the Fifties and has since returned regularly to sail with his second wife, Lana, five daughters and three grandchildren.
You have to applaud de Savary's eye for a great location. The island has blue skies, white beaches, lush green rainforest, turquoise waters and a year-round average temperature of 23c.
The 1957, Harry Belafonte film Island In The Sun was shot here, and Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman and Jerry Hall have properties on the island. Racing boy-wonder Lewis Hamilton's family also comes from a village on the western side of the island.
De Savary is ploughing nearly £300m into two schemes, Mount Cinnamon and Port Louis.
Some 110 one to three-bedroom apartments and villas, priced from £235,000 to more than £2m, will be built over the next three years at Mount Cinnamon, which overlooks four-mile-long Grand Anse beach and is just 20 minutes from the capital, St George's.
A two-storey five-star hotel with outdoor pool, gym, tennis courts, beach club and restaurant will also be on site. But if you can't wait for the construction of one of these off-plan properties, you can pick from 21 one to three-bedroom apartments built back in the Eighties at Mount Cinnamon by another developer.
De Savary has renovated and refurnished them in bright Caribbean hues - expect lime green Smeg fridges and purple and blue sofas.
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'Prices on Grenada are around £250 per square foot now,' says Guy Gittins, de Savary's director of sales. 'But I believe they will rise by another £100 soon.' Despite such hikes, property prices on the island are still reasonable. They are around half those on Barbados and 25% less than on Antigua or St Lucia.
Port Louis, described as the Caribbean's answer to St Tropez, is a marina development with views across the water to St George's, and boasts 300 one to three-bedroom apartments and villas priced from £254,000 to £1.5m. And £2m is being spent on the waterfront, where there is space for 350 boats.
The Victory Bar has already opened and will soon be joined by a five-star boutique hotel on Pandy Beach, a shopping village, a Champney's spa, a pool and restaurants.
Residents - and those renting their property - will also be able to visit Tufton Hall, a former plantation house that has been transformed into a Six Senses spa, an hour away in the rainforest.
Alternatively, they can pop along to Mount Edgecombe, de Savary's restored 18th-century villa, for a swim and lunch, and use his two guest suites to shower and change.
Another bonus is the deal de Savary has struck with the local government. Normally, nonresidents have to pay 10% purchase tax, but this is being waived for buyers at Mount Cinnamon and Port Louis.
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mi mumma!! dis thread sweet mi
bout oprah ppl an grenadian (sp?) ppl pon boardComment
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Streete-Thompson, Francique hang up their spikes
Published on Monday, October 13, 2008
By Gary Smith
Caribbean Net News Sports Correspondent
Email: [email protected]
MIAMI, USA: Two long serving Caribbean representatives, Kareem Streete-Thompson of the Cayman Islands and Grenadian two-time World Indoor 400-metres champion Alleyne Francique announced their retirement from athletics earlier this month.
Francique, one of the best CARICOM quarter-milers in the past few seasons, and who won back-to-back world indoor 400 metres titles, announced his retirement to take up an assistant coach position under his former coach and mentor Pat Henry at Texas A&M University.
"As a professional athlete I have always been aware that the time would come for me to begin another chapter of my life," Francique said. "That time has come and I look forward to the exciting challenges that lay ahead.
"To be able to remain associated with Coach Henry for this period of time and now to be part of his coaching staff is a great honor," he added.
After a productive indoor season during his final year of his collegiate career where he latched on to win the 2002 NCAA Indoor title for Louisiana State University, the 32-year-old returned two years later to win his first major title at the World Indoors in Budapest.
Also in 2004, Francique recorded his best record on the IAAF Grand Prix circuit before going on to finish 4th at the Olympic Games in Athens.
Following a low key performance at the World Championships in 2005 where he failed to make the 400m finals, the Grenadian returned a year later to become only the second man to successfully defend a world indoor title when he ran 45.54 seconds to win gold in Moscow in 2006.
He then followed up that performance with a silver medal run at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia 10 days later.
A well respected athlete among all competitors globally, Francique is currently an Ambassador for Sport for Grenada and is also a multiple winner of the Sportsman of the Year crown for the Spice Isle.
Meanwhile, Streete-Thompson, an accomplished long jumper and sprinter, decided to call it quits after failing to fend off a variety of nagging injuries.
"Since 2002, there’s been an avalanche of injuries that just popped out of nowhere so the writing was on the wall,” he was quoted as saying in Cayman Net News.
"I was on a mission to end my career in Beijing this year. But when the injuries pile up, at some point you have to take notice and be realistic."
Streete-Thompson, a former NCAA long jump champion, who won silver at the 2001 World Indoor Championships, as well as collecting bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games and World Juniors, ended his career with Cayman Islands records of 8.31m for the long jump and a respectable 10.14 seconds over the 100mComment
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