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04/15/09

Report: 30% of Beach Restoration Sand to be Sold to Miami, Florida?

Filed under: Cancun Casa Blog, Cancun Tourism
Posted by: Dangers @ 10:11 pm

In a news report coming out of Por Esto, http://www.poresto.net/quintana-roo/cozumel/30157-quieren-vender-la-arena-a-miami a local newspaper in Quintana Roo Mexico, and based on reports from television news broadcasts, regarding the much discussed and debated Cancun, Playa Del Carmen and Cozumel Beach Restoration Project, comes news of a deal that would increase the amount of sand to be extracted from the off shore banks of Northern Isla Cozumel.

The report claims that instead of the advertised 7 million cubic meters of sand to be extracted off Cozumel there would be 10 million cubic meters extracted. Of which, 3 million cubic meters “may” be sold to the U.S., City of Miami, Florida.

The restoration project sand bank location off Cozumel has been a point of major debate by the citizens of Cozumel and their government. This news, if true, will only serve to increase the debate and local protests…

More as it becomes available…

Dangers

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News You May Have Missed In & Around Quintana Roo

Filed under: Cancun Casa Blog, Cancun Tourism
Posted by: Dangers @ 7:13 pm

Dana Rishpy Update/ Arrest: As some of you may be aware, Dana Rishpy, a 25 year old, Israeli National, was the young woman that has disappeared from the town of Tulum on or about March 28, 2008. Rishpy hasn’t been seen since despite widespread efforts and searches by the Mexican Police at all levels, the Israeli Government and private investigators, including family members. On April 13, 2009, a female Mexican National, age 36 by the name of Pastrana Flores was arrested for questioning by the Mexican Police as a possible witness to the events surrounding Rishpy’s disappearance along with potential charges of drugs and theft from tourists in the region as per reports in Mexican Newspaper Diario de Quintana Roo. The report states that Flores is suspected of being a person of interest and an acquaintance of the Matthew Walshin, an American, who was in Tulum at the time of Rishpy’s disappearance, and possibly the last person to see her, but has since returned to the U.S. The warrant for Flores was issued by a Mexican Federal Judge and she was flown under guard to Mexico City. It’s being reported that she was a retailer of tourist trinkets and also was the person whom rented Rishpy her room at a hotel in Tulum. http://www.dqr.com.mx/index.php/Tulum/PrincipalTULUM/Mujer-a-SIEDO.html
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2009/04/15/detienen-a-mujer-en-tulum-por-desaparicion-de-turista-israeli
Dana Rishpy- Courtesy of Novedades
The Beach Bids are Due/ Cancun Beach Restoration: The next phase of beach restoration bids are due from private competitors on April 16, 2009 after the first bids were thrown out for “technical” violations. The bids are for the restoration of specific beaches in Cancun, Playa Del Carmen and Cozumel providing for an initial restoration and a 10 year maintenence plan. the proposed work is currently slated to be completed by August 29, 2009. http://www.noticaribe.com.mx/cancun/2009/04/tendra_pocos_cambios_la_nueva_licitacion_para_recuperar_play.html
Mexican Girl, 15, Missing from Bel Air Hotel, Cancun: The local press is also reporting that during the recent Easter Break popular with National Tourists that a 15 year old girl from Coahuila has been reported by her family to have gone missing in Cancun while staying at the Bel Air Hotel in the Hotel Zone on April 10. It is not yet clear whether the girl has been abducted or has disappeared on her own as a runaway though police are investigating. According to witnesses, the girl got into a Nissan Sentra styled Taxi after talking with someone online. http://www.chetumail.com/?c=120&a=5381
No U.S. President Obama Visit for Cancun: Novedades is confirming today that President Obama of the U.S will not be making the rounds in Cancun as per previous reports in the local press. Obama will meet with Mexican President Calderon in Mexico City on April 16 & April 17.
Tropical Forest Fire Season: Reports are coming out from all over Quintana Roo that forest fires are breaking out in part because of human contribution and/ or the dry season in the tropical forests. Firefighters in the region are being overwhelmed with the increasing workload and failing equipment. The reports note that further expanding population occupation along with the climate are the primary causes in what has become an annual rite of spring and summer in Quintana Roo.
Coral Fossils Suggest That Sea Level Can Rise Rapidly, Study in Q.R.: NYTimes: Evidence from fossil coral reefs in Mexico underlines the potential for a sudden jump in sea levels because of global warming, scientists report in a new study. The study,
published Thursday in the journal Nature, suggests that a sudden rise
of 6.5 feet to 10 feet occurred within a span of 50 to 100 years about
121,000 years ago, at the end of the last warm interval between ice
ages.“The potential for sustained rapid ice loss and catastrophic
sea-level rise in the near future is confirmed by our discovery of
sea-level instability” in that period, the authors write…More at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/science/earth/16coral.html?bl&ex=1239940800&en=9fa61f8ed596eb41&ei=5087%0A
Courtesy of NYT/ Coral Formation at Xcaret

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