In recent years, Garifuna leaders have been under attack for their opposition to government plans to sell coastal land to foreign hotel and resort developers.
Generally these are far cheaper than time shares in new buildings bought directly from resort developers.
It's worth millions to the resort developers already.
Astronomers have also lost favor with a few resort developers.
Those resort developers know a good thing when they see it.
Her father is a real estate and resort developer in Arizona and Washington.
Most of the world's major hotel and resort developers now operate timeshare properties.
The resort developers wanted to create a sustainable complex that reflected the natural surroundings of the small peninsula and island.
A resort developer and operator was chosen on 8 December 2006.
But the island's resort developer and the $775 million Polynesian playground he created are anything but traditional.