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Barrow supermarket site

barrow supermarket 2

This was the site of Miss Barrows shop in St Elizabeth Village, St. Joseph. After they retired it stayed as a ‘Supermarket’ until a year or so ago. Its been for sale since then. now its been sold, the building knocked down, and apparently ‘villas’ are to be built, right in the middle of a very small ‘local’ village. Is this the start of East Coast Development?

Submitted by BU family member-Sundowner

This weekend Prime Minister David Thompson committed his government to rolling out legislation which will prohibit commercial development on the Eastern coastline of Barbados. BU have highlighted the destruction of the West Coast coastline which has been instigated by our West Coast correspondent. We support the Prime Minister and applaud him for responding to the voices of the PEOPLE. However in light of the above report our antenna has immediately come out to question what kind of development will replace Miss Barrow’s supermarket.

Please feedback, and the sooner the better!

All Barbadians must be vigilant. We cannot allow the East Coast of Barbados to go the way of the West Coast. We hope that the planned development at the Miss Barrow location can be satisfactorily explained.

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61 responses to “Barbados East Coast Maybe Under Threat”

  1. Sundowner Avatar
    Sundowner

    No idea who owns Newtons, I’ll see what I can find out, its all bush/breadfruit and coconuts, but makes a nice walk!

  2. Sundowner/Merricks Avatar
    Sundowner/Merricks

    Yesterday we went to Merricks’ thought it would be good to see what it looks like before its destroyed. We followed a trail of line marks, didn’t attempt to go to the beach as I’m not a mountain goat! I understand the beauty of this location, but if I was a wealthy tourist who spent that amount of money on a villa I’d want a beach with easy access that I could swim at. No wonder there are approx’ 50 swimming pools on the plans! I would have preferred to attempt to swim at North Point than Merricks!
    As to access to the beach, the developers said there would be disabled access as well! I assume a cable car or some such thing. Maybe its going to be ‘adventure’ holidays and you have to absail to the beach and rock climb back up! Secluded it may be, sheltered it is not, we got wet from sea spray at the top. The cliff top looks quite ‘unstable’ with fissures and loose crumbling rocks, but I assume a geological study of the area has been done?!

  3. Meg Avatar
    Meg

    Pat // May 9, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    Sundowner:

    So sorry to hear about the tree. Bajans really dont care about history. Imagine her coming all the way from England to plant a tree there, before going to open Princess Margarets School, only to have it chopped down.
    _______________________________

    I’ll probably start a war but I find that most Barbadians don’t give a damn about English history, only American.
    If Princess Margaret was American now…

    Mind you, maybe it’s not because she was English, maybe it’s because she’s a woman.
    Maybe that why there George Washington house.

    Then again, it may be that Barbadians are not naturalists. Did leave the school with her name after all.

    (The thought process, as it came…)

    Johnnie Too Bad – that’s what half the children were saying at my school when I was in 3rd form! No sales only leasing.
    Another island does that… our parents will get the money they obviously need from leasing without selling our heritage out!

  4. Maria Avatar
    Maria

    Isn’t the new government going to put a stop to this ridiculous overdevelopment of Barbados’ most beautiful and unspoiled coastlines?

    Once it’s done, it’s done. Once the island has no more unspoiled areas and is overbuilt, overcrowded and over supplied with tourist accommodation, the tourists will realise the ugliness of it all and move on to the next island.
    Barbados is no Bahamas, Trinidad or Hawaii. Barbados has no extra untouched islands to spare.

    While this problem may be relatively easy for the tourists to solve (by moving on), it certainly isn’t for Bajans. This is our island and we must actively protect it. Other holiday destinations have taken measures to protect themselves. Why don’t we? Why are we selling out to the highest bidder? The building regulations in Greece and its islands are very strict, so to preserve the beauty of the existing landscape and villages. Other countries only allow foreigners to buy property on a leasehold basis. The countries implementing these measures are large and yet they protect as much as they can. Barbados is the tiniest of islands and takes no such steps.

    Wake up and stop this before it is too late.

  5. Police Stationrathole Avatar
    Police Stationrathole

    All HAIL ROYAL PRINCESS,how glad and proud are we , of this your visit ,to the isle of the caribbian, we of Barbados our loyal voices raise, for us this always will remain a glorious day of days.Our heart felt pray we offer , that Proverdence will bless, your royal house, your royal self , with peace and happiness , how great a privilage and honor it has been, that we today should welcome, the sister of our queen. To Sundown, I was in standered one , Ms. Small was my teacher at Grace Hill. We went to the garison , and was excited to see her, standing in the sun, we were given coke and cookies. life was simple.

  6. JC Avatar
    JC

    Stupse Stupse and antoher stupse!

  7. trevor headley Avatar
    trevor headley

    I am writing with regards the propsed development in St Elizabeth Village, an area where I grew up and holds fond memories for me.

    Although I am in favour for development as we all live in a world where progress is standard and we all want better what I have seen in recent years in returning to Barbados is the overdevelopment of the Island and the sacrifice of Agriculture for Tourism. No one seems to be able to get the balance right which has had a detrimental effect to local Bajans.

    These developments in local residential areas which are being sold to the very wealthy creates crime ghetto where you have the poor living down the road from the rich. Resentment soon sets in and crime escalates. Isn’t it in the Governments interest to suppress crime( not crime figures).

    I believe that this development will benifit a lot of people but a lot of other people will suffer.

  8. Aryana Deane Avatar
    Aryana Deane

    Thanks for the post.Thanks Again. Will read on…

  9. SMRE Avatar
    SMRE

    If you want to talk about an eyesore why don’t you look the scenery over there by light and power as well as by the cement plant

  10. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    @SMRE we have 166 square miles, of eyesores in Barbados.

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    Don

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