Tuesday, April 16, 2013

'Our luxury resort has turned into Fawlty Towers': Blame banks, says developer as buyers face bills for apartments they can't visit

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm reading this and it suddenly feels like deja-vu--all over again. I am not amused. Is this guy of Rochamel fame bemoaning the fact that "people are always looking for someone to blame"? Oh!

Perhaps the Tourist Board should consider rebranding Saint Lucia as the Isle of Reinvention--where memories are short and all is forgiven by morning. It's amazing how a car salesman can easily rise to the ranks of major investor on this rock.

Who among us can have the government guarantee our loans without first being subjected to parliamentary scrutiny? Man, this is the life--96 degrees in the shaaade!

Anonymous said...

Yep! He is the same French of Rochamel fame. He is not French but an Englishman. St. Lucian be damned.

Anonymous said...

Looks like a first class slick thief to me. Talks and dresses like he does not care one bit. Looks like he has found very comfortable refuge and living accommodation in here. Lord help our country!

Anonymous said...

JAIL THE BASTARD.

Lettie said...

I bought my timeshare weeks in 1994from Gavin and just saw the place go downhill and deteriorate over the years. How could one continue to pay condo fees on something uninhabitable. It is shameful that he hasn't been arrested for fraud. It is shameful that he is still allowed to sell property on St Lucia. It is like a Ponzi scheme, he takes the money and uses it from one buyer till he gets some more from another one.
Anyone in business in St Lucia knows he is a crook and yet nothing happens to stop him. I had to give up on my investment, wasn't going to give him another cent. I love St Lucia and the St Lucian people and can't let this bad experience keep me from visiting the island. I just wish he was not allowed to sell property anymore, any of his business are going no where. Buyers be warned, do your research.
Loretta, Canada.

Anonymous said...

Was the NDC asleep at the wheel? What happened to the process of due diligence? This place is a joke; tons of bureaucracy and red tape that ultimately amount to nothing. To think that even after Rochamel and Marlin Quay, this investor is allowed to pursue other developments--unimpeded--says a lot about Saint Lucia, its leaders, and regulatory agencies.

Anonymous said...

After the Hyatt affair that he was allegedly up to his neck in, it is about time Gavin French was deported from St. Lucia never to be allowed to return, his assets seized and used to repay investors who have lost money. Either that or arrest him and let him rot in Bordelais for a couple of year.....actually, best idea is seize his assets and use them to repay investors, jail him for a decade or so then deport him, throwing him penniless onto the streets of UK back where he belongs. Kenny....it's time to throw out the trash!

Anonymous said...

I believe that Gavin French has a criminal record in the UK after a prosecution for perverting the course of justice. His citizenship should be revoked on those grounds alone apart from Rochamel and now Marlin Quay......any other Looshan would have been locked up and prosecuted years ago but obviously this guy is a special case and can act on our island with complete impunity doing exactly what he likes trashing our islands good name.

Anonymous said...

Jailing him here will probably cost us, the Saint Lucian taxpayers, too much money. His property should be confiscated to repay clients NIC on behalf of workers and afterwards deported back to the UK. He probably does not even have a home there to go live when deported. But we do not want him anymore.

Anonymous said...

Gavin French cannot be trusted. There is not one investor over the many years that is satisfied, he seems to be immune from government action on St Lucia.

Anonymous said...

I believe he is starting another scam similar to his previous.

Beware off his new project

It's called the iHotel (adjacent to Cotton Bay resort)

Anonymous said...

Hi anyone see that c--t I want to meet him