Government Orders Disconnection of Utilities to Unauthorised Beach Vendors at Morris Bay, Darkwood Beach, Fryers Beach, and Fort James

1. That’s why there are soo many robberies…the small man all perishes with this kind of treatment. That is only to protect the hotels. Black people also get the shitty end

2. I applaud this move. The beach should not be littered with vendors especially the nonsense that was allowed to happen at Morris Bay. Yes, some people resort to vending because of hardship but that is not the case for everyone. Some people just come and figure that instead of getting a job they should just go on the side of the road to ply their trade and they stay that way for the rest of their lives instead of renting or building a space. Let the beaches be beaches. One of two vendors in fine. Not 5 and 6 blocking the view of the beach. Coconut trees need to be replanted at Darkwood and Morris Bay.

3. These illegal connections need to be investigated by APUA management and the Minister. It seems that someone in APUA is breaking the policies set for obtaining electricity. I have pointed out to the street vendors on Old Parham Road opposite Hadeed Motors. How the hell were they able to get APUA to provide them with electricity? Not to mention DCA also not doing their job. And slowly but surely Antigua is becoming a lawless country. And when the politicians want to set things right they become the boogie man. But the laws are there and simply not implemented by any of the responsible institution. I just do not understand why there is such a lawless attitude in our country. Everyone just want to do as they like. You live in a residential neighborhood for years suddenly your neighbor decides to open a club or a bar or even starts a mechanic shop next to you. Causing all the unrest that comes with it and disturbing your peace that you had enjoyed for years. And no matter how many times you go to the police, nothing is done about it. I wonder if they are waiting for people to take the law in their own hands. Having lived in Europe and North America I know how strict those laws are upheld. Neighbours will call the police if you play your music to loud at a certain time in the evening. Or even parking infront of my neighbour’s house is a No No. I should park in front of my own home. But as I said before Antigua is as good as lawless. And the police is much to blame about that.

4. And meanwhile across the Bahamas government build bathroom facility and changing rooms on a white sand beach front 4 minutes walk from the cruise port and allow Bahamians to build their restaurants and bars and gift shops with all utilities like electricity and water and sewage connections and telephone internet.
   Juxtapose to Antigua we have a colonial style government that is anti local entrepreneurship and pro foreign entrepreneurship, that is white monopoly capital domination, so any white investors coming in are been shake down by the ruling government politicians and then given new laws and concessions through our monetized dolly house parliament that never existed, meanwhile they go after the black indigenous Antiguan and create taxes that will cause contraction of their businesses into none existence, the governing politicians are an example of colonialism devolving from the white colonials masters to some black ones that are like a coconut brown outside and white inside, so these black politicians have the same behavior of the former slave masters that keep their foot on the neck of the black people whose ancestors survive to give them this opportunity to enjoy emancipation economically and socially. What a shame on these young men like Gaston and his gang of fellowmen, the new land developers occupiers at fryes beach and other places has ask the politicians to curtail local access to these beach front lands that are in their domain and white privilege to own. Unless Antigua throw off these Jim crow laws that govern us silently through the influence of these white foreign investors like mill reef and jumby bay and all white privilege that determine our modus operandi we will always have repressive laws to stifle the dreams and aspirations of the black African descendants.

5. I firmly believe that government should pass a Beach & Coastal Vending Bill that will provide a system of regulating Beach Vending where persons can go through a process of approval to afford them to be regulated and monitored in provision of services to the public. We also need a Special Beach Patrol Unit that will go about monitoring and enforcing the Beach rules. The bill should outline the powers given to the Beach Patrol Unit. Persons assigned and licensed to sell or operate on the Beach should have ID badges and uniform tops so that they can be easily identifiable. It is really time to bring some control and commonsense to the important Beach activities and regulate the actors some of whom gives the industry a bad name.

6. Please investigate the massive and horrible looking monstrosity/restaraunt being built on Darkwood Beach without any DCA approval. It has ghettorized the entire area and has turned a once beautiful area into a dump. Even the tourists are asking if this is the best we can do and it is bringing down our product!!! Please someone….do something!!!🙏🏽🙏🏽

7. Please investigate the massive and horrible looking monstrosity/restaraunt being built on Darkwood Beach without any DCA approval. It has ghettorized the entire area and has turned a once beautiful area into a dump. Even the tourists are asking if this is the best we can do and it is bringing down our product!!! Please someone….do something!!!🙏🏽🙏🏽

8. When barret build that monstrosity on long bay beach that people can’t pass on the beach like before nobody says anything, but now a black person build a small thing on dark wood beach it’s an alarm, some our own black brothers see it as 10 times the size of Barrett and robin monstrosity on long bay beach. Talking about tourist ask if this is the best you liar, in those white countries it’s lakes and and mudded bay front if they live near the sea. White investors benefit from the beach amenities to develop wealth than our own people.

9. This has nothing to do with Black or white, Rich or poor. It is about Antigua‘s tourism product being the best that it can be. And that Dump that is being built on the beach at Darkwood significantly reduces and affects Antigua‘s tourism product. So when you speak about the poor black man, the ghetto area now developing on Darkwood beach is going to cause tourists to turn away and look elsewhere. One cannot even see large sections of the beach now from the road And when the tourists don’t spend money, guess what? It is the same poor black man that you speak about who is going to suffer. And by the way, was any DCA approval given to these unsightly buildings?? Please answer that question you or somebody.

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