Placencia Residents Protest Sand Mining as Erosion Threat Grows

Just weeks after rallying for the return of Placencia Point, residents of the coastal village are raising another red flag, this time over what they say is illegal sand mining along their windward coast. The community staged a demonstration last week, warning that the mining activity could worsen the beach erosion that’s already threatening their shoreline. And with the coastline literally slipping away, they’re demanding answers. So, what’s being done about it? We put that question to the man in charge Minister of Natural Resources and Mining, Cordel Hyde.

 

Cordel Hyde, Minister of Natural Resources

“The mining director was out of the country the entire of last week, so I have not seen that letter. But, basically the last time we met with the village council we met with the mining director and went through those allegations previous to that. I know our people have been there trying to figure out what is happening. So I will communicate with the mining director for her to get on that pretty soon.”