The Development Control Authority (DCA) has ordered the removal of a perimeter fence blocking public access to Galley Beach in Five Islands, following weeks of complaints from residents.
Reports included instances of alleged police presence preventing entry to the public beach.
Senator Michael Joseph, Antigua Barbuda Labour Party caretaker for St. John’s Rural West, announced via social media that access has been restored.
“Access has been granted… unhindered by any gate or anything like that,” he stated, reaffirming the late V.C. Bird’s principle that all beaches are public.
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What fuck wrong with these people our beaches are free for everyone don’t u all understand what the law said
Them think them own Antigua 🇦🇬
Them punky fuckhole think dem dey ah Barbados 🇧🇧 or jamaica 🇯🇲 wah dem government sell dem country thank God for papa brid who once said the beaches or antigua and Barbuda is not for sale thank god
Finally someone stands up for beach access granted by law. This needs to become a standard across the island no matter who owns the adjoining property. There are other places where beach access has been blocked.
Are Antiguans so illiterate these days that cannot express ourselves in other but gutter language. No wonder outsiders have nothing but contempt for us! Good move DCA! Continued watchfulness and decisive will put these racist “investors” in their place! Decent, enlightened Antiguans support this move 100%!
Way to go I actually went down there after seeing a video of it to see for myself.. wicked set a people…now about the other blockades to our lovely beaches…
Great! A clear message to greedy, selfish, racist “investors”!. As Gabby sang a few years ago AND AS WE ALL KNOW, “the beaches belong to we” (the people)
The entire issue regarding “beach access,” because the beaches are PUBLIC need to be addressed Nationwide to include the offshore islands.
These issues include…
A…Trash/Garbage disposal.
B…roadways to and from the beaches in areas where developers (private or commercial), apply for permits to build.
C…the high water mark. (Use eminent domain when necessary).
At beaches which have high traffic;
parking, restrooms, gazebos, picnic tables/pads are need (include fees for use).
D…it’s time to implement a Dust To Dawn policy to avoid vagrants and vandalism.
E…categorize the beaches/parks for optimum and best uses.
Since the beaches are public, as in a park, sacred spaces, design, build and maintain as such. Put the proper guidelines/policies in place and post them. Prosecute anyone immediately who violates these because when it comes to the BEACHES, public access, private domain, it’s still a FREE FALL FOR ALL.
Ras Smood aka Jumbee_Picknee
De’ole Dutty.Peg🦉Garrat_Bastard
Vere C. Edwards
y’all soo fucking dunce the fence still up all they did was make an opening so you can pass but they destroyed the foot path leading to the beach and have big rocks to jump over when you get to the beach so the beach is still fence and privatized technically. DCA didn’t do shit it all a public stunt to fool people like y’all gullible fuckers.. I went down there and all the guest acting like they in they own private beach just as he wanted it to be, they have the beach chairs literally on the beach sore line so you still cant have room to play nothing!!!. we are being sold-out and we deserve it!!!! so keep fighting for color & party when they all friends working for the same master…. Antigua done no fuck we already out numbered by so call Caricom brothers and sister that bring nothing but dem long hand for a better life and no education or skill to up lift the country but Antiguans haffu run to find better life else!! where!!!
Take it or leave it my people. Beggars can’t be choosers because if we run dem out, stone dem out, kip dem outta Antigua & Barbuda, they’ll just go to another sucker nation in the region who are looking for handouts and trinkets. Ask Harold or Baldwin and they’ll tell you the same in private.
check yourself into Clarevue. You have Multiple Personality Disorder, now known as D.I.D
Instead of using some fake photo off the internet, why didn’t antigua newsroom go down there and take an actual photo to show the beach is truly open? Just saying!
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