“Rastaman t'row one stone and it bring a bad feeling to all wicked men….”
Amy Winehouse’s favorite beach shack
would not be here today if hoteliers and developers around Cas en Bas had had
their way. The golf course would have swallowed her up. Flambeau’s cabinet endorsed the locking of the gates that
barred the main entrance to her shack, forcing her clients to traverse an even
worse road to get to the beach. Between the government and the corporations,
the little lady was up the creek with no paddle.
But she didn’t need a paddle, she
had a stone and a sling. And with one shot in the newspapers, she defended
herself from the giants and philistines who compassed about her. True story.
Chastanet should be her biggest
enemy. She should lament his ascendance to Flambeau’s broken throne.
But Lambert has a unique take on
Chastanet.
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“If not for him, I wouldn’t be
here today,” she told the Flogg. “On the day the developers were supposed to
visit the site, Chastanet took it upon himself to give them a tour of some
other properties. They never got around to Cas en Bas. They got turned off by
the whole thing he was doing.”
According to local developers,
Chastanet was playing both minister and investment broker at the same time. Not
surprising when you consider what the last government thought of firewalls.
The FLOGG found that a local hotel
investment facilitator thinks he was shafted by Chastanet’s impromptu tour.
That investment facilitator, ironically, is historically, a Compton man, a
Flambeau, though not the ordinary tribal type.
It’s harder for him to forgive
and forget than Majorie, because she still has something, where he lost
everything he put into the Raffles venture.
The investors, meanwhile, didn’t
like the fact that a minister of government was acting like someone with
personal vested interest. They were polite with him, but what he did was not cool with them.
Everyone lost everything on that
deal.
Everyone but Majorie Lambert.
After single-handedly turning Cas en Bas into the kind of venue that both
discerning locals and visitors enjoyed, Cotton Bay planted itself beside her
and shared the beach, the visitors and even Amy Winehouse – who lived at the
hotel but ate and drank at Majorie’s.
The current government hasn’t renewed
Lambert’s license yet. They keep saying everything is in place and she has
nothing to worry about. But they haven’t actually handed her a renewed license
to operate.
She’s not worried. Not one bit.
Whether it’s Labour or Flambeau in power, Majorie knows how deep her roots are
and what’s at stake.
The FLOGG, meanwhile, is
watching.
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