St. Maarten Private Eye

A Certain Sense of Impending Disaster in Bel Air

Have you gone to the beach next to Bel Air recently, where you can clearly see the massive amount of excavation done to the hillside just north by Barbaron for its new "development"?

Barbaron has carved out a massive quantity of hillside: my guess is many thousands of metric tonnes of hillside are gone, shipped to somewhere on the French side.

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I have no argument with site preparation but this defies all logic. Look at it. St. Maarten is in an earthquake area and in the hurricane belt. We are unfortunately overdue for a 20 plus inch tropical rainstorm this year, at best.

Think about the people in the house just above the excavation. Was geological testing done to be sure it is 100% safe to excavate as Barbaron has done? What do you think?

What reinforcement has been built to secure the hill on which that home stands in case of earthquake or storm? Look at the hill: do you see reinforcement? Perhaps it is cosmic / invisible, something only the Commissioners know is there? Only they can see it! How magical the powers of the Commissioners!

Without regard to consequences, our government once again has allowed private contractors to do something which appears on the face of it to be utterly stupid at best, and terribly dangerous to St. Maarteners at worst. We should all have a certain sense of impending disaster at Bel Air.

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