Dear Editor,
The island is swiftly becoming a concrete jungle, as uncaring financiers are pursuing every square meter of land to construct more and more buildings. How much longer can the environment endure the slaughter of greedy investors – the ones who are controlling the government and dictating the direction of the country?
How sad it is to see that the very attributes that define and attract the visitors are the exact features that they are continuously destroying. Where is the balance between erecting buildings versus preserving the greenery and the island’s natural beauty?
Even though there are demands to build more hotels, the ultimate decision lies with government and not the investors. If the evaluation of these requests was thorough, and done with the purpose of putting the people first, government will not surrender to their demands. But as usual, this happens when there is weak leadership, and when government has no clue as to where it is taking the country.
It is not surprising to learn of the request to construct a hotel at Indigo Bay. It was their intention all along. The real intent was camouflaged by putting up these ugly looking condos as a precursor. After they have spoiled the hill, when they chopped it up like amateurs, now they want to block the view with another unsightly building. Why destroy the natural view and cut off the fresh breeze, to accommodate slabs of concrete?
Why do investors have to occupy every beach on the island? Are the seashores too valuable for the local people? As it stands, very soon only the tourists will have direct access to all of the beaches. So, Cousin Russell Simmonds, you are so right. There is absolutely no need for any more hotels, because these types of investments are just burdening the environment and keeping the workers on slave wages.
Apart from hotels being located by the beachside, government has issued a building permit to construct a hotel and casino close to the border in Cole Bay. Can the population visualize the chaotic traffic situation that this business is going to create next to an immediate roundabout? And, is it not that the hotel is attached as a disguise regarding the policy on standalone casinos?
Besides destroying the environment with excessive hotels, another goal is to plaster the island with casinos. More gambling dens fuel the addiction of patrons, which is bound to escalate the level of poverty to the point where the majority of the population will become beggars. Pay attention to who the impending business belongs to. These investments are strategically designed, and government knows it, because they too are part of conspiracy.
The poorer the population, the more dependent they would be on the politicians to assist them. Every government has failed to protect the people from these investors, who behave like vultures. All have refused to uphold the law that restricts the amount of times locals can visit the casinos on a monthly basis. So then, government is just as guilty as the investors, whose sole intention is to exploit the vulnerable gamers.
This is why the gas station was deliberately placed by the Causeway Bridge, as a supplement to this new investment. It was a plan in the making a long time. Have the population paid attention to the names of businesspersons that one MP mentioned in recent times; some of whom are with questionable characters? All of a sudden, they have become credible, and were recommended as a source of financiers to government.
Now it is easy to calculate why certain politicians don’t want the Dutch money, and at the same time are insisting that the Dutch money that they are refusing be transferred directly to government. It is also very easy to determine why the environment is not their priority.
Joslyn Morton
