Boardwalk to be refurbished

The Wickham-Lewis Boardwalk in Bridgetown is about to be refurbished. CBC News has been informed that the seven million dollar walkway which was opened in June 2000 and is in a current state of disrepair will soon get a facelift. The facility, which is part of the Bridgetown restoration programme, is expected to be out of use until the repairs have been completed.... The company will be using a new type of wood, called ipe from Brazil to carry out the repairs. Ipe is said to be decay, insect and fire resistant. Source: CBC Barbados Channel 8

IPE! yIPEe! Whoever was responsible for building this decayed and now dangerous acrobatic tight rope want beating with many strIPEs for doing a lot of shIPE. What wood did they use before? Plywood? Card Board? Termite Pasta? Men play dem referring to IPE as a NEW type of wood. Missy... that wood did bout for years. What they should have said was that it was a "different" type. Different to the termite sponge that you dim wits used before. But when it is tax payers money it is suddenly OK to use trial and error... "How were we to know that this wood would decay, rot, swell and get infested? What? Are you saying we should have done research or asked somebody? Nonsense! Who does that? That takes too much time! Next thing you will tell us is that the rope we used which now fuzzed out like a cold hamster isn't any good either."

Just now they will start building hurricane shelters from expensive Banana Shanks and using concrete to wrap conkies. Then when a Category 0.5 breeze blow through and tear up the first little pig's shelter, they will go running to this NEW thing called "Cement-us Block-us" imported from Tahiti. At least the IPE is fire resistant, so now I can roast some breadfruit in peace while the choking sewerage like stench rising from the green swamp eats away at my lungs.

*After reading this post, 12 persons will wait until it is repaired and try to burn it to see if the IPE is really fire proof.