THE PURPORTEDLY pure, powdery, perfect sand for Royal Westmoreland Golf Course arrived here on a ship Monday night. More than 9 000 tonnes of the controversial greens-mix were ferried by truck to St. James yesterday after it was off-loaded from the Tinnes. The silver-gray sand-soil mix came from Cape Canaveral in Florida, after developers here deemed Barbados sand unsuitable.
They said Bajan sand is impure and inadequate for the luxury links. The head of Springfield Mining Co. here, Albert Alleyne, obviously disagreed, producing test results showing his sand could do the job. Westmoreland developers have said, however, that the imported sand is only a small percentage of what will ultimately be required to finish the course and adjacent housing development.