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John, The 'Late' Fletchers !!!!

Yes, my friend knew them too well to make a mistake in recognising them, dont think I can say much more on here!

http://twitpic.com/eavw8 - Something's Happening ... at Kings Beach Hotel - http://bit.ly/HFHY5

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KNRX

Frankie what is happening do you know ?
I hope it isn't going the same way as Sandridge

No, I do not know what's happening yet but I am keeping my ears to the ground. I will not be surprise if I learn that the same people who bought Sandridge are in fact the new owners. They bought out almost all the properties between St. Peter's Bay and Kings Beach completely destroying the little hamlet we used to call Dark Hole. They built five new houses across the road from SPB to which they are moving five of the displaced households very soon. If my suspicions are correct, they will control all the land from Leamington to the Great House and so far they are building only condos.

Frankie I do hope that is not the case but I think you could be right, that area was lovely and typically Caribbean, it will never be the same again with all those monstrosities there.

Sue

... and the groynes, don't forget the ugly groynes that have also blighted the area.

Who could forget them!

I now have it on good account that the Kings Beach Hotel has been sold. The proud new owner, as was suspected, is the same party responsible for the infamous groynes (groins - American English) and developers of the neighboring condos - St. Peter's Bay Villas (Scandinavian-Bajan developer, Bjorn Bierkam, and frontman for The Villages - http://shar.es/FxRe - and other foreign investors). Rumor has it that "they" got it for the firesale sum of BDS $14M at a "silent bid" auction at the end of last June. So, again as was suspected, the orange paint on Kings Beach's wall noted above was indicative of something serious happening in the area. Look for more condos as the property already has Town Planning approval for a six-storey/50-unit condo block; so there will be condos from Leamington in the north all the way to The Great House to the south.

Even more foreboding is that surveyors were spotted on the beach last week and the suspicion (no announcements so people can only do the Math) is that they (Bierkam & company) are getting ready to put in another groyne to try to repair the damage done to the beach in front of Kings Beach by the already infamous previous three groynes. The surveyors were spotted as far south as The Pink House in Road View/Mullins.

shame shame shame...
Is there any way these groynes could be construed as being harmful to the sea life so that the World Wildlife Association or such could be brought into the fight?

OP I suspect it is a 'done' deal - it is hard to believe that the Barbados planning department would have ever let these plans go through, but as in any country, money talks!

I suppose it is only a matter of time until the proliferation starts to destroy the south coast too..we took a drive up the west coast last year and I was shocked at the cheek by jowl aspect of it all. As to money talking, unfortunately Barbados does seem to have the rep of being a rich man's playground.