This promise has not been kept. The spin now being used by the Government is not that they  have reneged on their supposedly cast-iron commitment, but that the marina arm “only extends  minimally beyond the northernmost part of the beach”. 

Giovanni Origo, Shadow Minister for the Environment said: “The Government’s latest statement  in a long string of them these last few days, now issued at the same time as the developer’s, is  nothing other than an obvious and naked attempt at creating confusion to hide behind the  transparent admission that the development is, after all, going to encroach beyond the point they  said that it would not. This they did in order to curry favour with the electorate who need to be  reminded that they have been duped. No number of pretty pictures or fanciful explanations will  absolve the Government from this central criticism.”  

The GSD further notes with interest that no apology and no further attention is being drawn to  their other electoral promise breach which was that the rubble mountain “will all be gone” in 2  years from the last election. This gives them only 2 months to comply and it is very clear that they  will not.  

It needs to be made absolutely clear, the GSD is supportive of a sensitive Eastside project. The  GSD is not criticizing the developers; its criticism is directed at the GSLP Government that has  made repeated promises over the years to residents of Catalan Bay in respect of the Eastside  development that it has not met. How ridiculous for the Government to say that the GSD is  politicizing the issue just because we are reminding people of the election commitments they made.  They simply don’t want to be held to account.  

The basic point is that this Government cannot be trusted.