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So, news has recently surfaced that a UK based company called Parc Investments Group has purchased a large parcel of property which fronts the northenmost part of Grand Anse Beach. Parc’s official website offers this as their description of The Residence - a multi-storey condo development. Looks great huh?

NO IT DOES NOT!

It is bad enough that, what with the local brouhaha ongoing about Peter deSavary and his Port Louis and Mt Cinnamon projects, no one (unrelated to the government) appeared to be aware that this project was even in the works, much less that it received its planning approval, as the linked web page indicates:

Full planning permission was secured in December 2007

Really??? Wha’?! Rumors circulating here include, among others, that the Minister for Tourism, the Honorable Claris Modeste-Curwen, allegedly saying that the project was NOT approved. Let’s all have a collective groan now, shall we?

Take a look at The Residence PDF prospectus and drop me a comment.

If it seems like there’s a massive posting spurt going on, that’s because there IS!  I’m sifting through my draft posts and completing/discarding as I go. Bear with me.

Last year I posted about the preparations for the Miss Grenada World last year but never followed up. Our participant, Vivian Burkhardt was among the final 16 Miss World contestants in China. Well done Viv! Click here to see photos of Vivian’s experience in China.

Needless to say the local representative selection process was rife with controversy, as these “beauty” pageants always seem to be. There were those who argued that contestants were too white, not white enough, not rootsy enough, too rootsy, too educated, not educated enough, too ugly, too pretty and the clincher - not Grenadian enough. Allegations were made that the the local organising committee had already made their selection (Vivian) and that the local contest was a sham. I tell yuh, between politics and queen shows, we people love ah argument!

Despite the fact that she is stunning, I’ll admit that Vivian was not my personal choice for Miss Grenada. It was a toss-up between Michelle Minors and another young lady (who withdrew from the competition but who was pursuing her law degree at the Sorbonne in Paris. !!!). What can I say, I have a weakness for smarts over looks. Or rather, smarts over “looks” as all those ladies are beautiful IMO.

In any case, the entire Miss World thing was a total let-down due to the horrible television coverage of the show, which appeared to have been produced by the Chinese themselves - as it was devoid of interest, humor and most importantly, the English language. Ah well! I hope we’ve learnt our lesson and realise that the kind of money that was spent to prepare and send Vivian to China could have put at least 5 children through secondary school.

(photo from
MissGrenadaWorld.com)

Caricomblog has an interesting post on the snail’s pace progress on reforming the Caricom governance arrangements. Well, given the average Caricom member state’s own inertia when it comes to implementing actual policy, I’d say a Caricom management shake-up is unlikely to happen any time soon.