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Excavation permit for Pearl of China
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03/02/2017 10:43 AM
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Daily Herald story I really think this is a bad thing for the island. Daily Herald website seems to be up and down this morning. Now it's down again..
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Re: Excavation permit for Pearl of China
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03/02/2017 01:57 PM
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RonDon.....i respectfully have to disagree with you. Even though timeshares are ''owners''.....they (we) are NOT residents of SXM...just visitors with a few extra perks thrown in. Believe me when i say I don't like the idea of this monstrosity beign built either.....but.....it would be up to the government...and the real RESIDENTS of SXM to voice their opinions. We as Americans don't have the right to tell other governments what they can build and what they can't build. It should be totally up to the people of the island to decide on their future. Those are the people that will still be living there long after we stop ''visiting'' our home away from home. SXM is obviously looking out for their survival...and they know it's tourism that brings in the people...and its the people that make or break the economy. For all of us that have called SXM their second homes....and have visited constantly in the last 10, 15, 20 or more than 25 years, we have seen our paradise taken away, and booming. We may not like it....but the people who make their living off our hard spent dollars surely do for their survival. Bringing in thousands more touritst, visitors, or residents that will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars PER DAY....is what the residents, business owners, restaurant owners, etc all looking at. I do miss the quiet days...but like everything...things change...and not usually for the better.
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Re: Excavation permit for Pearl of China
[Re: EdB]
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03/02/2017 02:38 PM
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I agree with you actually that the residents of SXM should be listened to with regard to this project. However, it appears to me that, as with most things, there is money in it for some people, so it matters not what the average citizen thinks.
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Re: Excavation permit for Pearl of China
[Re: EdB]
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03/02/2017 06:35 PM
03/02/2017 06:35 PM
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Let's all face it......everytime there is a major project on the island the ''visitors'' go into panic mode. It happened when Maho was expanded twenty five years ago....It happened a few years back when in cupecoy they started building the cliffs....and the other large condo building there.....how could the island build such a huge project as Puerto cupecoy...but we know how that went sales wise. The blue mall to date has been a total bust...but that is a different story. More influx of people will obviously force the job market to expand to take care of these people. Unfortunately, so will traffic, wait times...and beautiful beach areas as they become cement cities. Someone surely is moving into all the new homes and condos that are being built. Obviously the hotels on the island have all expanded also for all the influx of new people. What will be the final saturation point??? I guess we don't know that at the present time....but a panic over the China project probably won't be it. Granted....the chines government will probably bring in a lot of their own people...but in actuality, it wont be much different than when Mr. Spaddarro single handedly built Great Bay, then went on to Maho and that entire area, and then went on and built all the condos around there, and is still continuing to build up the ''mountain'' with all the new homes and marina being built overlooking the lagoon, and this was with Italian labor. Every year SXM sees more and more retirees deciding to make the island their home. If and when full medical facilities or updating hit the island, eventually it will be a very desirable location for retirees. I know some people who have made the move, and others who have contemplated it....ourselves included.
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Re: Excavation permit for Pearl of China
[Re: EdB]
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03/03/2017 02:10 PM
03/03/2017 02:10 PM
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The Chinese project does'nt add up.
The airport has insufficient capacity, so do the roads, power station, sewage treatment, fresh water and so on.
In addition, the would be building on a nature reserve.
This is not expansion, this is megalomania ...
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell
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