GOODBYE TO THE BEACH
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15 March, 2011 05:29
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The picture speaks for itself. The irreparable destruction of Sandy Bay is complete... its loss and the sacrilege final. What are left are the ghosts of past pleasures... and rumours of present profits.
The latter centre on the transported rocks that now form the coastline where a beautiful beach was once. These, it is claimed, came from a Spanish quarry bought by a Gibraltarian entrepreneur whose stellar rise to wealth appears to have coincided – quite unrelatedly – with the GSD’s tenure in government.
The former weekly wage-earner turned entrepreneur is said by some to have become a millionaire several times over.
But Gibraltar’s rumour mill is never short of grist - a small place filled to its capacity with rumours. Some are true and some are not.
But the loss of the beach is no rumour. Nearly two years ago, in April 2009, VOX warned of the danger in a report headed “Sandy Bay Forever Lost? ” It refered to the dredging - which VOX creported and warned about while it was actually being carried out – that took place over the Easter weekend when most people were away enjoying the Easter break from work.
Our headline that week was: “Easter Rape Of Our Coastline “. Indeed, by the time people returned to work on Tuesday it was practically all over; the Yacht Club seafront and No 4 dock in H.M.S. Rooke had been infilled with the dredged sand from half a mile or so offshore from Sandy Bay.
Sometime later VOX headlines were: "Summer's Sun and Sea... But Where's the Sand ".
The latter centre on the transported rocks that now form the coastline where a beautiful beach was once. These, it is claimed, came from a Spanish quarry bought by a Gibraltarian entrepreneur whose stellar rise to wealth appears to have coincided – quite unrelatedly – with the GSD’s tenure in government.
The former weekly wage-earner turned entrepreneur is said by some to have become a millionaire several times over.
But Gibraltar’s rumour mill is never short of grist - a small place filled to its capacity with rumours. Some are true and some are not.
But the loss of the beach is no rumour. Nearly two years ago, in April 2009, VOX warned of the danger in a report headed “Sandy Bay Forever Lost? ” It refered to the dredging - which VOX creported and warned about while it was actually being carried out – that took place over the Easter weekend when most people were away enjoying the Easter break from work.
Our headline that week was: “Easter Rape Of Our Coastline “. Indeed, by the time people returned to work on Tuesday it was practically all over; the Yacht Club seafront and No 4 dock in H.M.S. Rooke had been infilled with the dredged sand from half a mile or so offshore from Sandy Bay.
Sometime later VOX headlines were: "Summer's Sun and Sea... But Where's the Sand ".
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