07-13-2016, 03:40 PM
The struggle was the plan that the government presented, which was a very damaging breakwater plan. Sure, business is "disrupted" when the beach erodes (and comes back, and goes away...all the time) but the proposal for the breakwater plan was basically going to shut down Negril's West End for 2 years. They were going to be hauling boulders, staging across from the corner bar and basically cutting off West End Road at the needs. Add in the damaging environmental impact and town went crazy! I think "stakeholders" smaller in rank that John Issa or Butch Stewart finally woke up and so did the residents. I have to hand it to Sophie Grizzle and Mary Veira, they were true leaders in this fight and in the end victorious. I for one couldn't be happier that this plan has been filed in the circular file.
What's "Jamaican" to me is that all the while the government is shoving this breakwater down everyone's throat they are allowing continuous development on both Long Bay and Bloody Bay. If they keep building and expanding in the end no form of erosion control will work. The first step in erosion control is a complete and unequivocal moratorium on any building, new or expansion on both Long Bay and Bloody Bay.
What's "Jamaican" to me is that all the while the government is shoving this breakwater down everyone's throat they are allowing continuous development on both Long Bay and Bloody Bay. If they keep building and expanding in the end no form of erosion control will work. The first step in erosion control is a complete and unequivocal moratorium on any building, new or expansion on both Long Bay and Bloody Bay.
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
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