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Cay Bay oil spill still not cleared
SXM Island Times - CAY BAY--Rodrick Carty of the Seaside Nature Park has brought to the attention of The Daily Herald that the oil spill on the Cay Bay beach near his establishment caused by a fault in electricity company GEBE's waste treatment system last week Thursday has not yet been cleared up.
Carty observed the oil being washed up onto the beach front Wednesday afternoon when heavy swells engulfed the area. According to Reuben Thompson of St. Maarten Pride Foundation, the oil that had soaked into the sand in the ocean as a result of sedimentation is now being stirred up by the heavy swells.
Nature Watch - Pearl FM - Cay Bay
Jadira Veen of SXM Pride hosts a one hour radio show every Friday from 10 - 11 am on Pearl FM, 98.1 called Nature Watch. This week she had 3 very impressive and intelligent guests to talk about Theo's planned industrial area, port and filling in of Cay Bay.
I don't want to get into any argument about what the bay is called, though maps tell me it's actually Cole Bay. If you are unsure of the actual location you can see it very clearly in the SXM West Development Plans, published here on SXM PE in June. It's right in front and to the left of GEBE, destroying the beach Sea side Nature Park that Roddy Halley has created, completely. Maybe we should call it 'Industrial Water' like the planners do?
I strongly and highly recommend listening to this past Friday's Nature Watch show with guests Roderick Halley, his wife Alexandria Halley and Reuben Thompson. You can do so at Pearl FM's website. A lot of sense was spoken.
Some links to news and information, as well as a few of my own comments, below... :)
The Cole Bay Port Project
Cole Bay / Cay Bay? Which is it?
I have always considered the bay where Indigo have ravished to be Cay Bay and the bay where GEBE is located to be Cole Bay. According to Mapsxm and other maps I am right. The confusion might be explained somewhat by this map from 1987 which also shows it as being Cole Bay. You can see that there is Cole Bay (the bay), Cole Bay Hill, Cole Bay and even Koolbaai District. To top it off, the area to the west of GEBE was called Cape Bay and the road running by GEBE to Roddy's place is Cay Bay Road.
The bay that Theo has plans to fill in is Cole Bay, Roddy and the people who are concerned about this project are from Cape Bay, Cole Bay and Cay Bay Road, but not actually Cay Bay. That doesn't diminish at all their rights or argument against Theo's plans, they are where they are and the bay is where it is, but I just think it's time someone said something about this. There is nothing, literally, in Cay Bay, just some big unused machinery and some 'landscaping'.
So, from now on I will refer to this as the Cole Bay Port Project and hope that the media do their own research and follow suit, or show me where I am wrong.
Cay Bay residents launch petition against proposed development plan
The Daily Herald - CAY BAY--Several residents of the Cay Bay/Cole Bay district are against proposals for filling in the bay front shoring the Seaside Nature Park. They agreed in a public meeting last night at which they launched a petition against the proposed development plan that there should be a united thrust to clean up the whole Cay Bay district currently plagued by a severe sewage problem.
About 20 residents gathered at Seaside Nature Park owned by Rodrick Halley and family to get an insight into developments being proposed for the bay. St. Maarten Pride Foundation was on hand to lend its expertise in lobbying against projects considered detrimental to the environment.
Theo rips coalition partner for comments on Cay Bay
The Daily Herald - PHILIPSBURG--Commissioner Theo Heyliger says he intends to ask National Alliance (NA) leader William Marlin, his coalition partner in government, to “make a serious effort to get his members under control and remind them that they are no longer in opposition.” Heyliger was expressing his anger over comments made by Commissioner Hyacinth Richardson’s Executive Assistant Edwin James on Radio Soualiga 99.9FM last week Friday.
James had read a statement on air criticising government’s plans and motives for the development of the Cay Bay area and, according to Heyliger, drumming up support against any future project, without having the proper information or understanding about the nature of development in the area.
