As a small island developing state, Grenada recognises and appreciates that tourism will continue to play a major role in the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The 17 goals adopted by all United Nations Member States as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.
All 17 Goals interconnect; meaning that success in one affects the success of the others. It is, therefore, against this backdrop that the tourism development in Levera, St Patrick, is committed to ensuring that it is done in harmony with various national, regional and international environmental policies and conventions to which Grenada has committed itself.
One such commitment is the 2012 declaration of the island’s only RAMSAR site. The Levera Wetland, according to the RAMSAR listing, is in boundaries with the Levera Pond Protected Area, which extends from the area surrounding the Levera Pond, including the Pond and mangroves, across to Levera Beach, the marine areas between Levera Beach and Sugar Loaf Island, and Sugar Loaf Island itself.
“With so many of the world’s tourism projects taking place in coastal areas, we are fully aware that the quality of wetland ecosystems is a vital economic resource for tourism. Here at Levera, we assure the public that this site will continue to remain as a RAMSAR listed site, showcasing Grenada’s commitment to respect and protect the environment,” says Wang Yong, Project Manager.
The Levera project promises to respect and abide by that commitment. Regarding any concerns expressed by the public about the erection of the temporary buildings on the project site, the developers wish to clarify that all the temporary structures are well away from the Ramsar line. Further, the developers pledge to ensure that any possible discharge from the project, will be treated beforehand and recycled. This is in accordance with environmental best practices. Moving forward, the company will increase its public education by holding focus group discussions, in which the project plan will be presented, and an entire breakdown of the project and its immediate, medium and long-term positive impacts on the environment and economy will be shared.
The developers reiterate their commitment to the development of Grenada by abiding by the guidelines set forth by the relevant Government agencies, and the environmental impact assessment. They will continue to work along with local stakeholder organizations for a mutually beneficial partnership.
Singapore Heng Sheng (Grenada) Development
Friday, 18 September 2020
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I love my island,
Beautiful sparkling gem of the Caribbean,
The roads are quite dangerous for everyone looking to explore the island’s nature and beauty,
Having travelled along the western side throughout the years, looking at the crumbling roads subsidence falling overhead rocks trees obscuring drivers view lack of road signs markings cat eyes etc etc it’s been neglected for too long !!!
Years have passed and nothing much have changed to improve it,
Driving from the north to south can be quite a daunting experience mentally tiring draining,
We’re quite happy to allow all these new projects hotels etc which I welcome so it may help grow the north economically which is much needed,
But if you cannot reach the destination safely or have decent roads to travel along!
Where is the investment in the infrastructure? roads are a major priority it will open the entire island for future growth and investment,
Please can we see investment in the road network with clear visible signs barriers and road markings for everyones safety,
Speed limits need to be fixed and implemented,
I would like to introduce a stringent vehicle inspection where the brakes suspension lights tyres etc needs to be properly inspected for any defects visual inspections have no action on mechanical failure,
Pedestrians passengers drivers all need to feel and be safe from unnecessary accidents which seem to be happening on a regular occurrence,
Could I get the role of vehicle safety inspection? which could be set up in 3 months with the help of government this will have a great improvement in implementing vehicular safety,
Make Grenada great make Grenada safe
With the revenue streams the Government has there is no way any party could initiate the massive roadworks needed without aid, and please please do not in-debt us to China any further, the tallyman is going to come in a few years and parcel Grenada up and hand it over to China soon enough.
Regrettably clear signs especially in places like St Georges, where it is only local knowledge that stops you driving the wrong way in some of the one way streets are in very short supply. We even have some really nice signs in Red Gate, where if anybody looked at them, at least 2 of the 3 signs are located in the wrong place. I guess that’s just to give the Tourists some fun trying to figure out why they ended up in the wrong place.
Vehicular safety is abysmal as far as the testing goes. At one point I was contemplating making overtures to set up some real testing stations with people who actually knew something about mechanics. But I realised if they actually tested the cars properly at least 50% would be off the road, and the Government could not afford the reaction of the public at such a large wipe out of peoples cars and lorries.
I actually tested vehicles back in the UK in the 60’s and we did vastly more back then than is currently done in Grenada. They could fault or fail you for a slight chip on your number plate, but they have no real idea if your brakes really work, of your suspension is knackerd, if you have defective steering, holes in your bodywork that is structurally dangerous, an exhaust that is leaking gas into the passenger cabin etc etc. The test is a joke.
When I turned up for a test with a Harley, the tester asked me to rev the bike… I thought it funny, but complied. He then tells me I have no exhaust. I point to the 2 chrome things running down the side of the bike, but the bike is loud… Duh, It’s a Harley, with street legal, even got the Db rating stamped on the side exhaust…. I guess he thought a 1200CC real bike was supposed to sound like one of those pretend 125cc versions.
Another time the examiner tells me to stick my automatic in 2nd. I say why, he says because a mechanic told him that’s what to do to test the brakes…. a bit bizarre, but if it was a manual it might mean something, but in an automatic it is always going to pull away in 1st. Duh.
More development needs to be done in this country we need more hotels and more luxury grenada and it’s old third world ways needs to be gone. When you have luxury hotels coming to grenada foreigners will be bringing in millions worth of dollars of cash into the country. There needs to be more hotels. This country needs more luxury hotels cars and restaurants.
More development needs to be done in this country we need more hotels and more luxury grenada and it’s old third world ways needs to be gone. When you have luxury hotels coming to grenada foreigners will be bringing in millions worth of dollars of cash into the country.
I think tourism is a good industry Grenada should keep focusing on but for some reason, no effort or little focus has been done towards agro. As a young person, I know many individuals who have brilliant ideas but lack guidance towards developing those ideas. I think this is were the government comes in. Send ministry officials to tamcc and SGU to listen to what the young people have to say towards the agro sector. Government job is to regulate and guide the economy correctly
We are about to have glut in the Agro sector, with the Government encouraging everyone to grow and cook what they are going to eat in their own yard. Nice idea, but when everyone is growing their own seasoning peppers, and lettuce who do the farmers sell their product to?
We do not seem to have a very organised approach to export, which is what I thought the marketing board was supposed to be about, and unless a trafficker takes your stuff for little and nothing individuals are not going to be selling abroad.
The Marketing board seems to be quite good for the purchaser, which is great for the lower paid workers to be able to stretch out their earnings, but as a supplier, from my little experience it is a waste of time selling to them, as by the time you take out your transportation costs it wasn’t worth the effort.
We can stand around and whine the youth doesn’t want to work, and you can’t get them to work in agriculture, but would you? Fr the pittance they would get, it seems we haven’t really left colonialism behind.
Grenada could build one million hotels and still the poverty, will not decrease. I think the focus is wrong. The unions in Grenada and also the government, must raise Grenadian wages. I left Grenada in 1980, masons and carpenter was making $100.00 a day. Forty years later they are making the same or less. Ok if you want to help Grenada from being a fourth world country, why don’t you talk about wages. Go ahead build those structures, that are not environmentally friendly and you will be destroying Grenada rather than helping her.
The reason there seem to be a hotel building explosion on this little but proud island, is they can get those hotels built on the backs of poor Grenadians for little or nothing. After the hotels are built, for almost nothing, they can continue exploiting the Hotel workers, paying them way below market price. Grenada is facing a wage crisis, and it is past time that unions and the government step in to help.
The truth….the future is scary…I feel we’re being sold out.
Not being sold out. We are having investment towards building the country. Canada america and Singapore along with the United Arab Emirates all had investment. So stop going around with all these rumors and lies about us being sold out. The time it takes for a grenadian to atleast build one hotel in the next forty years. About 10 hotels will be built out by foreigners. So then you guys need to build more local 5 star hotels.
Where is the money going to come from?? That is my answer??? Where??? Miney must find from something because government have no money.
Ya but when you guys dont wanna pay taxes and work where the money coming from?
Grenada needs oil and i know we have it. agriculture will just make us impoverished and tourism will struggle when events occur so i think the government needs to go find oil since trinidad venezuela and guyana already have it. we need it. we can become worth billions of dollars if we just find it.
Okay now we understand that Agriculture would just be a waste because we can make little to nothing from it. Tourism will struggle because of what can happen when pandemics and hurricanes occur. So then my question is what about OIL??? The only thing that can bring thousands or if not a hundred thousand people out of poverty. Venezuela the country with the largest oil reserves exports a billion dollars worth of oil, Guyana a country where development is starting to boom and Trinidad what was once the richest country in the world and is now The most developed, The most self sustainable and The richest country in the Caribbean all have oil!! So then what about Grenada??? We are 100 miles north of Venezuela and 50 miles north west of Trinidad. So then where is the oil. Something that can make us worth billions of dollars!!!! Is America stealing it??? Do we access to the waters that have oil or is it that the Government is just too lazy to go find oil??? We need it and when I really mean we need it we just need it.
We have found oil, but are using a Chinese companty out of Texas to extract it, utilising Trinidads rigs and refining technology, or something along those lines. But WHEN, is the big question….can you push a piece of string up hill? If you could maybe you could make it happen.
Okay then. If Grenadians don’t want hotels then. Legalise and decriminalise weed and cocaine. If Grenada wants to become rich well fine then. The Government needs to revamp the Agriculture Sector and Go out there and Find OIL. If Grenada has nothing well then there is nothing that we can do and we will no longer become rich again. And yes while what they are doing to the forests are not right Grenada still needs hotels. Grenada is one of the poorest countries in the world. What are Grenadians going to do about it? Can’t they build their own hotels instead of complaining? what will they do??? Grenada is going to become a third world country and then eventually a fourth world country if we can’t do anything to help our selves. Grenada has too much poverty and the government needs to do something about it one way or the other. Look at what they are doing to mellville street grand anse and river road. They are creating poverty and building shanty towns. Look at what they are building! Why can’t the government and people do something about that instead? Grenada is going downhill. We will become a third world country once again. And there is too much going on.
Read the PM statement to the Planning Division. It couldn’t be more timely or untimely. The cart has appeared to be before the horse.
Never mind the pretty pictures, which frankly are of a project unlike ANYTHING on the Island, and as such completely out of keeping, never mind the Hotels towering into the sky like a carbuncle in the landscape, something that surely was not to be allowed, as I always thought structures were not supposed to be built higher than a coconut tree grows,or the whizzy whiz things looking like a frizbee gone haywire. The thing is intended to located just about the furthest location from the airport.
Were I a tourist other than an eco tourist wanting to wander off into virgin cloud or rain forest I would not be prepared to fly from the UK for example for around 10 and 1/2 hours having spent probably 3 or 4 hours getting to and through the airport, and then spending another hour at least post covid to clear MBIA, and then an absolute minimum of an hour and a half, but probably 2 hours to get there. On roads that destroy regular vehicles suspension and steering components on a regular basis.
Maybe the Great Government of Grenada is set to do a massive road reconstruction project to make the journey more pallatable to our VIP patrons. You may be lucky, but we have been trying to get a small section of road resurfaced for around 5 years now, with no success. So good luck on that one.
This is not Las Vegas, where over the top designs are every day affairs. Up until very recently as far as I am aware Casino’s were not permitted in Grenada, but maybe principles go out the window when investors shake their wallets.
Investement is required in St Patricks no doubt, but it seems it is the intention to turn 3/4 of the population of that parish into low paid service workers, which is better than no work, but still leaves them in a no advancement poverty trap.
We can only hope this yet another Investement for Passport white elephant that fizzles out before too much damage is done to the location.
I agree with you and you are totally right. The roads in Grenada haven’t had some work done on it for more than 25 years. But still. I don’t they would literally be enslaved. Because Grenadians make close to nothing. People make about $1500 a month where as these what they claim to be (very rich people) should be paying them $5000 dollars which is 5x more than what they make.