Sand barges in the Carribean waters, Grenadines. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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The Negril Chamber of Commerce has expressed outrage at what it says appears to be shady sand mining activities connected to major hotel developments in Negril and elsewhere on the North Coast…
Read Full Article, Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica’s Most Famous Beach Is Slowly Vanishing, Yahoo Travel (10-03-2014)
Tourists from around the world are drawn to a stretch of palm-fringed shoreline known as “Seven Mile Beach,” a crescent of white sand along the turquoise waters of Jamaica’s western coast. But the sands are slipping away and Jamaicans fear the beach, someday, will need a new nickname…
Officials Says Duncans Bay Sand-Mining Operation Legal, Jamaica Observer (01-27-2014)
Large beach sand mining operation in Trelawny, Jamaica, Jamaica Observer (01-21-2014)
Cops Believe Illegal Sand-Mining Operation Had Huge Reach, Jamaica Observer (11-11-2013)
Jamaica’s Beaches in peril, IPS News (07-31-2010)
Row Erupts over Jamaica’s Bid to Slow Beach Erosion, IPS News (02-03-2015)
A plan that government says will slow the rate of erosion on Jamaica’s world-famous Negril beach is being opposed by the people whose livelihoods it is meant to protect. Those opposing the plan say the structures will do more damage than good…
Beijing highway: $600m road just the start of China’s investments in Caribbean, Guardian UK (12-26-2015)
Stretching some 67 km north to south across Jamaica, the $600m four-lane nicknamed the “Beijing highway, is the single biggest investment by the Chinese in the Caribbean. This project is also prelude of the building of a $1.5bn deep water container port on islands off the south coast ,using dredging and land reclamation to accommodate mega ships coming through the expanded Panama Canal…
Sand Thieves Are Eroding World’s Beaches For Castles Of Cash, by Martine Valo, Le Monde (09-2013)
The pillaging of sand is a growing practice in the world. This is because it represents 80% of the composition of concrete that it is the object of such greed…
A UN Report On Sand Mining: “Sand, Rarer Than One Thinks” (GEA-04-2014)
Sand Wars, An Investigation Documentary, By Denis Delestrac (© 2013)
