St Lucia

 

 

Tvind assets:     commercial plantations, links with government

 

       The story of the Tvind plantations in St Lucia

In 1986 Roy Lawaetz found that his elderly father had come under pressure to sell off family property to Tvind, at a bargain price, with the support of the then St Lucia Prime Minister, John Compton.    Roy Lawaetz, then a journalist, fought a battle to prevent the forced sale, but lost.   This is his story.   Roy's story.

The estates are:

       Mt Lezard Estate  (1986)

 

      River Doree Estate

 

      Park Estate

 

 

See also:  Tvind companies

 

    Mt Lezard Estate Ltd   (UK company )  (1990)

    River Doree Holdings Ltd

 

            Soeren Hofdahl   (Vieux Fort)

 

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Other reports:

"In Denmark the government pays a large proportion of the salaries for the 600 or so Tvind teachers. Most of them hand over the money to a "general fund"....

  During the early 1980s Tvind established two charitable foundations, Common Ownership Fund  [Faelleseje]  and Estate. Between 1983 and 1987 around 7 million was transferred from the general fund to the foundations to buy properties for the Tvind schools, as well as plantations In St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Grand Cayman and Belize."

Critics ...  pointed to very low wages paid to workers on Tvinds plantations in Belize and St Lucia. On St Lucia a wages dispute on a Tvind plantatlon led to a violent strike...."

[Source: The Guardian]

There was a strike of plantation workers in in St Lucia in 1986:
"Des grves ont clat St-Lucia en 1986.   Mais, pas de chance, DAPP avait de bonnes relations avec les autorits...  Il n'est pas difficile d'obtenir d'Humana des dizaines de copies de 'reus' nominatifs (de la part des ouvriers) pour cette sorte de paternalisme caritatif."

[Source: Belgian NGO report]

 

 

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Other reports:

"In Denmark the government pays a large proportion of the salaries for the 600 or so Tvind teachers. Most of them hand over the money to a "general fund"....

  During the early 1980s Tvind established two charitable foundations, Common Ownership Fund  [Faelleseje]  and Estate. Between 1983 and 1987 around 7 million was transferred from the general fund to the foundations to buy properties for the Tvind schools, as well as plantations In St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Grand Cayman and Belize."

Critics ...  pointed to very low wages paid to workers on Tvinds plantations in Belize and St Lucia. On St Lucia a wages dispute on a Tvind plantatlon led to a violent strike...."

[Source: The Guardian]

There was a strike of plantation workers in in St Lucia in 1986:
"Des grves ont clat St-Lucia en 1986.   Mais, pas de chance, DAPP avait de bonnes relations avec les autorits...  Il n'est pas difficile d'obtenir d'Humana des dizaines de copies de 'reus' nominatifs (de la part des ouvriers) pour cette sorte de paternalisme caritatif."

[Source: Belgian NGO report]

 

 

Other reports:

"In Denmark the government pays a large proportion of the salaries for the 600 or so Tvind teachers. Most of them hand over the money to a "general fund"....

  During the early 1980s Tvind established two charitable foundations, Common Ownership Fund  [Faelleseje]  and Estate. Between 1983 and 1987 around 7 million was transferred from the general fund to the foundations to buy properties for the Tvind schools, as well as plantations In St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Grand Cayman and Belize."

"In Denmark the government pays a large proportion of the salaries for the 600 or so Tvind teachers. Most of them hand over the money to a "general fund"....

Critics ...  pointed to very low wages paid to workers on Tvinds plantations in Belize and St Lucia. On St Lucia a wages dispute on a Tvind plantatlon led to a violent strike...."

[Source: The Guardian]

There was a strike of plantation workers in in St Lucia in 1986:
"Des grves ont clat St-Lucia en 1986.   Mais, pas de chance, DAPP avait de bonnes relations avec les autorits...  Il n'est pas difficile d'obtenir d'Humana des dizaines de copies de 'reus' nominatifs (de la part des ouvriers) pour cette sorte de paternalisme caritatif."

[Source: Belgian NGO report]