"Yes they could, of course they could fix it," responded the food importer.
Once that's open, how are you going to change it back? They can't afford to fix it if it goes wrong." Payne hit back: "Just say there's a 0.5 percent chance that I'm right. You've got to open it up and bring some life back to this community." "Sure, in a hurricane we will get a bit of extra tide, but you'll have problems anyway with a hurricane. "That's nonsense," replied the first man, a food importer whose business relies on trade with local restaurants, which are in dire need of an influx of tourists. "If they open it up you are going to get a lot more water surge down here. George's Dinghy and Sports Club on Cut Road.īut just as that resident was explaining the desperate need for bigger cruise ships to breathe new life into the Olde Towne, fisherman Jason Payne joined the conversation to point out widening Town Cut is not an open-and-shut case. "All this talk about how the city's going to get flooded if you open up Town Cut is absolute nonsense," one man said as The Royal Gazette visited St.
George's North with Up Your Street.Ī fiery exchange between two old friends showed just how much of an emotional topic Town Cut has become in St. George's big debating points is whether or not the waterway should be enlarged to allow bigger cruise ships access to the town.Ī vital lifeline for a proud former capital fallen on hard times or a potential environmental disaster? Views on the dredging of Town Cut are as wide as the channel itself, Tim Smith discovered as he visited St. Dame Jennifer Smith points out towards Town Cut.
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