Bomb site Kuta?

Exerpt from the article published august 2005

Nearly three years after the bomb blast, Bali seems to be slowly recovering from that fatal October night in 2002, when a car loaded with explosives tore out the very heart of Kuta, the islands most popular tourist spot. Immediately after the blast, which killed 200 people and destroyed the popular hang-outs of Sari Club and Paddy’s Bar, tourism stopped dead in it’s tracks. An irrational fear of SARS and political unrest on the Moluccan Islands, a staggering 1200 kilometres to the north, didn’t help much either. Hotel rates dropped dramatically, but to no avail. The islands economy ground to a halt. Now, travellers are slowly finding their way back to the once-popular island, even though it’s a far cry from the days before the fatal event, when fashionable Kuta seemed crammed with tanned surfers and fashion-conscious shoppers, patronising the emporia of Gucci and Louis Vuiton, whilst at night the streets were the domain of drunken and noisy Australian weekend hoppers.
Today, the scene of the crime, a miniature Ground Zero, lies hidden behind an enclosure of corrugated iron. Debris has long been cleared, but no new buildings have been erected. Instead, a small Balinese image of a god, carved from stone and wrapped in traditional chequered cloth, serves as a makeshift monument. Scraps of paper are pinned to it, scribbled texts, vouching the victims will never be forgotten. Three years after the attack, this seems to be true: across the street, where Paddy’s Bar once stood, a huge monument has been erected. Broad staircase and spouting fountains, flags fluttering in the gentle breeze, the victims names carved in marble.

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All I need to know is if the above still applies. Is the corrugated iron enclosure there, or has the site been rebuilt? All comments welcome, thank you.

I don't recall corrugated iron, more of a proper fence.

And the streets are definitely still the domain of drunken noisy Aussies.

If that excerpt was in fact published verbatim, you need to fire your copy editor. It's got quite a few grammatical errors (mostly to do with apostrophes).

fashionable Kuta?

Nice memorial . . . slow return of tourists . . . many just ask "what's that??" when they see the monument. Unaware of what happened.

The site can't be built on according to Balinese belief which now considers it the home of powerful and potentially dangerous spirits. It is fenced off and now covered in a layer of grass. Sometimes people tie little messages of commemoration to the wire.

Thank you, Timdog. That's what I needed.

#2: It's got quite a few grammatical errors (mostly to do with apostrophes). Is that so? Can't find any rogue apostrophes in above excerpt. Kindly point them out to me.

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"Kuta, the islands most popular tourist spot" - islands should be island's

"tourism stopped dead in it's tracks" - it's should be its

"The islands economy ground to a halt" - islands should be island's

"the victims names carved in marble" - victims should be victims'

Also you've got some run-on sentences and the last one is a sentence fragment.

Agree with all four, thank you.

Also you've got some run-on sentences and the last one is a sentence fragment.

This is a matter of eprsonal style, wouldn't you say?

Oops - Personal