Simple bypass road or expansion of the hotel Tarisa Resort?

Since this morning, work of expanding the hotel Tarisa Resort resumed. The locals have strongly opposed the felling of trees with age almost a century. According to George Ah-Yan, spokeswoman of La Plateforme pour sauver les plages de l'île Maurice, the firm performing the work since this morning does not hold a permit.

The residents even have recorded a statement at the police station in Trou aux Biches, claiming that the construction firm to provide its Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Certificate. "The residents have demanded that the firm has allowed its EIA. However, after reviewing the documents provided, we realized that this was another project close to the hotel Tarisa, and the permit did not authorize the slaughter of trees” , argues George Ah-Yan. This latest announcement was that the people will demand an injunction in the Supreme Court to challenge the stumping of these trees.

"It is a crime.I'm disgusted!Then we hear a lot about Maurice Ile Durable! Even the pastoral letter of Bishop Bishop Piat focuses on the environment!Here we began to destroy the first trees that have grown at Mon-Choisy.And at no time did the authorities wished to intervene,” growls the social worker.

According to George Ah-Yan, the trees had not been creating any problem. "They are not blocking the roads, they did not affect the visibility ... I do not understand this decision!" He says. Nearly a hundred flaming chainsaws have fallen this Wednesday morning. While lumberjacks were busy trimming the branches and trunks into pieces, bulldozers were deployed to clear the way, under the helpless gaze of the inhabitants of the region.

An officials of the development part said he did nothing wrong. "We are in good standing and this is private property.Let people realize that it is primarily a development project, " they says.

George Ah-Yan will hold a press conference this Thursday, March 10, the Social Centre Mary Queen of Peace in Port Louis, to denounce this "crime against the environment." The social worker has to dwell on the license EIA submitted to the police station in Trou aux Biches by the firm in charge of construction work in progress.