{"id":126312,"date":"2021-03-30T19:48:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=126312"},"modified":"2021-03-30T20:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:44:20","slug":"authorities-investigate-large-gathering-at-ffryes-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/authorities-investigate-large-gathering-at-ffryes-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Investigate Large Gathering At Ffryes Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Real News Report: Members of the public are asking where the police were on Sunday, when an event \u2013 reportedly a car show \u2013 was staged at Ffryes Beach.\u00a0 The affair attracted scores of people \u2013 many of them without face masks and breaching the social-distance protocols.<\/p>

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A video making the rounds on social media shows the function \u2013 with what sounds like amplified music playing \u2013 and dozens of cars parked on either side of the access road.<\/p>\n

While persons are free to go to the beach, the Administration has stated explicitly that this is for the purpose of recreation and exercise and\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>for social gatherings involving either music or food.<\/p>

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Further, where a social gathering is permitted, it is limited to five persons.<\/p>

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Last week, the High Court declared Atlee Rodney\u2019s appointment as Commissioner of Police unconstitutional.\u00a0 Accordingly, one woman tells REAL News the Force appears not to be functioning since the top position is now in question.<\/p>\n

She says the Police never seem to be doing their job when it is required; and she fears the beach event might have been a super-spreader of the COVID-19 virus at a time when the the case numbers appear to be going down.<\/p>

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If law-enforcement is unable to properly police the popular beaches, how can the Police and the Coast Guard be expected to patrol the offshore islands, a man asks.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine the amount of parties taking place at these offshore islands on a weekly basis. Our COVID-19 cases will not go down, because the Government does not know what it is doing,\u201d he says.<\/p>

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The man describes the beach event as appalling, and accuses the young attendees of beingvery reckless and not caring about anyone but themselves.<\/p>

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Another man recalls the parties held on Prickly Pear Island \u2013about which the Police claimed to know nothing \u2013 and other social events involving influential persons where no arrests were made or charges laid.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll these things are happening, and all the Police can do is drive around town and ticket people for eating, and pull people over and ask about mask, when it\u2019s you alone in your car,\u201d the irate resident says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen are our leaders going to get things right in this country, and stop going to Parliament and in other forums and big-up themselves?\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n

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A Real News Report: Members of the public are asking where the police were on Sunday, when an event \u2013 reportedly a car show \u2013 was staged at Ffryes Beach.\u00a0 The affair attracted scores of people \u2013 many of them without face masks and breaching the social-distance protocols. 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