There are more than 20,000 signatures on a petition from a group in Saint Lucia trying to block a senior Dollarama executive from Quebec from expanding his vacation home at the foot of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This is an older article from The Guardian (June 6, 2023) but it seems so fitting (sadly so) as I observe how beaches are being taken over and shorelines destroyed in Puerto Rico. Kenneth Mohammed writes, “The privatisation of beaches and the controversial sale of prime heritage or beachfront sites to developers have become normalised…