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Paros In Paradise - Sunday 09, February-2003

A ONCE POPULAR PLAYGROUND of rich and famous tourists has become the playground of a colony of rats.
The once pristine dining halls of paying patrons is now the den of “paros”.

After 11 years of neglect, the only signs of life are the ugliest: human faeces, not human faces. Graffiti, not graphics. Filth, not fondue.

And a collection of stagnant water where once paying guests played poolside.

Paradise Beach Hotel is no longer a paradise.

The only “guests” who check into the prime beachfront property nowadays are drug addicts. They have plenty of rats and mosquitoes for company. None is paying the US$150 to US$295 winter rates advertised when the hotel closed its doors in 1992.

But none wants the luxury this once popular property boasted. Instead, they revel in an illegal lifestyle in the buildings abandoned with broken windows and broken doors.

One constant is the white powder-like sand and the glistening aquamarine waters loyally and ceaselessly lapping on the long stretch of shaded shoreline of one of Barbados’ best bathing spots, as if it were still crowded with sun-seekers from Europe and North America.

Occasionally, a wandering tourist finds paradise sitting on the sandy beach, basking in the sunshine. His backdrop is the ruins of a property once pristine, once prestigious. Once paradise.

This, the first hotel on the golden West Coast of Barbados, is now listed in the directory under Sandals Barbados.

The locals call it “Scandal Barbados!”, their cynical reaction to 11 years of wastage by a foreign multinational with luxurious, spanking properties in almost every other Caribbean territory where tourists seek refuge.

Security officers are supposed to be the sole repeat visitors at Sandals Barbados but, on Wednesday evening when a SUNDAY SUN team visited the hotel, the only one on the compound was in the guard box at the entrance off the Spring Garden Highway.

A local representative of the Jamaica-headquartered Sandals company expressed surprise that no patrolling guards were on duty at the time.

But security was evident on Thursday when a photographer was stopped by two security men as he tried to make his way onto the property from the beachside.

The previous day no one was in sight, not even the paros, who nearby residents report seeing as they come and go on to the property from time to time.

Evidence of recent use

But the dried faeces on the floor, the filthy unflushed toilets, the remains of uneaten food, empty cans, cigarette butts and other material that had been burnt suggest that some of the rooms were occupied in recent weeks. Perhaps they were used for Christmas meals with drug paraphernalia. There were also newspapers with November datelines.

Neighbours reported that there has been less activity since the SUN team visited the property last May. However, one recalled that just last month a prowler was snooping around his door.

Mosquitoes however remain a serious concern for residents, who acknowledge that health officials visit the site from time to time, but the problem remains.

The SUNDAY SUN tried to contact Sandals director of finance Patrick Lynch in Jamaica for comment on the state of property. We were told he was in a meeting.

A local representative, who said he was not authorised to give an official response, however said that any plan to develop the property would have to await the outcome of a court decision.

The matter has been tied up in the courts for several years ever since American investor William Locke Jr tried to force Sandals Resort to sell him the 30-acre property.

Originally, chairman and chief executive officer of Sandals Resort, Gordon “Butch” Stewart, said his company had planned to transform Paradise into an ultra-modern all-inclusive hotel.

Subsequent reports indicated Stewart was willing to sell the Barbados property to investors who could spend the millions of dollars necessary to upgrade it and allow Sandals to manage it.

Locke attempted to buy the property, but failed to come up with the US$100 000 deposit required. Sandals then determined that the sale was no longer on.

Last December, the Court of Appeal ruled that Locke’s failure to come up with that deposit meant that Sandals was right to conclude that there was no agreement for sale.

“However, Mr Locke still has about two more months in which to appeal to the Privy Council. Until then, nothing can really be done to develop or sell the property,” the local representative said.