Did the Tourism Sector invest its money right at 63 Beach?

Mar 02, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I would like to identify a matter of interest that is already very obvious towards the general public. The No63 Beach committee, Tourism Ministry, and Government projects together invested much money on new structures for the beach. These structures are very snug and cannot fit enough families into them on the beach. I don’t even know what they are. Even people are clueless and cannot describe them better than calling them the “things” on the beach. They are too small to be benabs and are choked and cluttered along the beach. They look like small logies made for the entertainment of the public. How civilized in this modern day?
They have seats and a table in the middle but are so tight no one can hardly fit inside. They are scattered along the beach like litter, for what purpose, I do not know, since everyone enjoys being out on the beach, their feet touching the sand and the waves.
They already use their own vehicles for their shelter and do not need these makeshift houses.
So underneath it all, do you really think that the tourism sector invested its money in the right way or should it have invested its money in a better avenue to develop the beach? Should it have concentrated on the dilapidated Number 63 Beach main entrance road that is an unbearable greeting to tourists and locals? That road has many large craters that do not encourage people from developed areas in the country and international tourists to come back and visit the beach because they are scared that their cars will get damaged. Instead of making useless shacks around the entire beach that block the natural beautiful atmosphere and are not recognized by civilized visitors frequenting the beach every Sunday (this became a major tourism destination from the time when the Berbice River Bridge opened).
Quite a few tourists from Jamaica, St. Kitts, Barbados, British Virgin Islands and St. Martin have mentioned to me on numerous occasions while hanging on the beach with my family and friends, that no tropical tourist beach or no beach that they know of has ever invested in such structures that breed litter and noise nuisance.
The Tourism Minister should have known better than to invest funds in this squander. If he had studied tourism and visited other tourism destinations he would have seen that what people really want is the natural beach.
There is so much to do right on the beach. Foreigners and locals know that and do not want to hide in a shell and feel left out from the crowd.
Ebony Narpatty (Brijbassi)

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