I would like to continue with the major topical issue of Climate Change and No. 63 Beach and the provoking relentless tides that have been affecting and threatening our popular beach and also our Berbice community by encroaching onto the public road.
We have been experiencing very smoking heat directly from the thinning ozone layer from the sharp persistent sun shining its brilliant hues and blinding rays of its golden sunbeam upon us, making us perspire and feel fatigued in this humid atmosphere for the past few days, which seems to me to be very unusual weather conditions.
I believe the people in charge of weather conditions like the forecasters, meteorologists and hydrologists should take heed since these are signs that we are in store to expect anything like an underground earthquake that could shake the Atlantic Ocean and cause a Tsunami.
I am calling on these vital government environmentalists to send down “probes” like in America to test the ground heat and find out what is really going on and if something is really boiling up under the earth and ready to explode. All of these climatic changes help us to understand the effects of climate change upon the globe and this country.
This is the reason why our President is engaged in his Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) protocols to help prevent and protect our country from facing the harsh side effects.
In order to safeguard citizens and tourists frequenting No. 63 beach it would be great to have a durable rock sea defense built high to prevent the tides from overtopping the new boulder/quarry embankment.
I am aware of the “overtopping” of high tides surpassing some of  the sea defences throughout the country because they were not built high enough and since Guyana is below sea level I am calling on the government to invest in higher and more durable defence to protect Guyana and its citizens. There have been many approaches towards making a sea defense at No. 63 beach that I have been aware of through research, observations, construction, speech and none have come into real existence by becoming or staying intact as a sea defense and were considered to be useless ideas. There is the mentioning of making a “sea dam” from a few persons that would not be beneficial since you are actually allowing the Ocean to move in, and building a drainage and irrigation dam behind a resort will ignore the investment by allowing the sea to surround the building. There will also be no beach left because the ocean will be taking over the beach. The great idea I have established along with other people is the idea of making a durable sea defence first by laying a layer of mesh along the sand banks left and even areas where the banks have been depleted along the beach in a broad row, since our beach has a different texture of sand sedimentation, it is considered to be one that sinks and is easy to blow away. After laying the mesh it was thought that the best recommendation to solve the ongoing issue of the angry high tides would be putting down rock on top of rock, large quarries / boulders and building a large rock foundation and defence by making it a high even defence standing together like a wall against the high spring tides.
Such a sea defence has been done at No.7 beach near Fort Wellington, West Berbice. An inland road will be made to serve for people entering and exiting the beach and outside of the rock defence there will be the vast prestigious No. 63 beach left that everyone can enjoy and will stay so in years to come.
I do hope some action can be taken really soon on this issue in order to combat climate change at No. 63 Beach and save the lives of citizens in Berbice and even our tourism industry and most of all our country Guyana.