St. Maarten Private Eye

And the award goes to…… Anguilla National Trust

On the 25th of May we were all surprised with an article on page 18 of the Daily Herald that Dolphin Discovery received a “Princess Cruise Lines Award”. Most of us giggled and thought the publicity stunt was funny because the cruise lines and the dolphin industry should know by now that we the public and even the dolphins could see right through that publicity stunt. I guess they still think that they can manipulate the public like they manipulate their dolphins. Perhaps many others were manipulated to allow those construction workers to do their thing.

The dolphin industry always forget that there are not enough rewards and awards to be given to the millions of people that never went or never will return to such dolphin prisons. The article is only negative publicity for the cruise lines because we all know by now that they support dolphins in captivity; they are in it for the money from selling the onboard tickets.

The publicity stunt was even worse for the whole dolphin industry in general because they still continue to make the dolphins work for all that money while more people are become aware of the facts and feel ripped off having to pay to swim in dolphin toilets. We all know this dolphin company does not really care about dolphins and their environment, they never showed any respect for Antigua, not even for their home country so why would they suddenly show respect for Anguilla?

The publicity stunt with the award only gave us the impression that there was something going on. We already knew they desperately needed to impress the opposition in Anguilla to get something done like a signature on an urgently needed relocation permit or something like that. The devastating report from the Anguilla National Trust (ANT) on this blog is very interesting. The ANT did a serious and thorough investigation and produced an impressive and professional report on its findings. The award should go to Anguilla National Trust for their long term view of preserving Anguilla’s environment.

We the public had no say in this and so the award went to Dolphin Discovery, and how convenient that it was published in the news papers, just several days before the same awarded company was ordered to demolish their illegal constructions. Maybe they knew or expected that this order from Mr. O. Flemming was coming. Those illegal construction pictures might turn out to be useful later on, who knows. It is unbelievable the guts and the attitude this dolphin company has towards their host island Anguilla. And it is also unbelievable how tolerant the citizens have been so far.

These pictures show that the dolphin company has no respect for Anguilla and they clearly felt very confident in what they were doing, I wonder why they were so confident while illegal construction was going on. But unfortunately this brings to mind all the negative acts and events sticking to all dolphinarium operators and dolphin traders across the world. There is not one good dolphinarium on this planet earth simply because there is not one good reason to keep dolphins in captivity.