John Mussington

John Mussington is a Barbudan voice in Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School) who argues against reducing Barbuda’s land system to small titled household plots. He describes the island’s collective ownership as including land, farming resources, animal resources, real estate value, food security, and clean air.

His role in the source is to make Communal Land Tenure an economic asset rather than only a cultural attachment. The episode uses his argument to show why Property Rights As Investment Incentive can conflict with Property Rights And Community Obligations when title reform changes who controls the residual value of a place.

Connections

• Barbuda, Natalia John, and Gaston Browne - local conflict and opposing policy actor.
• Barbuda Land Act, Communal Land Tenure, and Disaster Recovery Privatization - land-governance branch.
• Path Dependence - historical reason the conflict did not start from ordinary private title.