What's happening to the sea on southern foreshore? It's disappearing! That's what residents have been telling is for the past two weeks – and we thought maybe it had something to do with the cold front and all the north winds playing tricks with the tides. But, that's not it. The problem persists – and when we went there this morning, we saw that outside the seawall, there was a massive buildup of silt, so much so that where once there was only sea and waves rolling into the seawall, now there's only a thick buildup of silt pushing against the seawall. Residents in the area say they have never seen it like this.

Experts tell us it's probably the result of siltation buildup in the Belize harbor – which is famous for that. They say it needs a proper dredging by the relevant authority.

But who is that authority? Well, there's an international port right across form this at the Fort Street Tourism Village. And the silt buildup will eventually affect the huge tenders that traffic to and from the village. As far as we know, it was to have been dredged by October of last year, but the sight we saw would suggest that didn't happen.

WE'LL keep following up on the story – but the Pelicans aren't complaining, this evening we saw them getting easy pickings in the abnormal shoal.