Off duty police officers deny locals access to Pearns Point beaches

1. I’m surimi’s about how the government will respond to this. I visited Pearns Point a few months ago and met a very professional police officer at the guard station. From my standpoint, although in my opinion, police acting as security guards is a conflict of interest, they are doing their jobs as instructed by their employers. It is up to the top brass to address whether officers can moonlight in their free time. In this case their mandate as officers who are supposed to uphold laws is conflicting with the landowners intent to ignore our laws. Only the beach closest to the gate was accessible because of construction. The beach that locals traditionally go to has been rendered inaccessible. My question is, when approving construction for these multibillion dollar companies, doesn’t DCA ensure that they know the laws with regard to access to the public beaches? Why are we going through this time and time again? If this were a small local company, they would go in and demolish the gate just to prove a point, but for a foreign entity anything goes. It’s time to ban the sale of land directly in front of a beach. There will always be a conflict. Over time the landowner thinks the beach is theirs too and will have all kinds of reasons and rational to support their claims. Hotels need to be beach adjacent rather than right on the beach. That way the locals get full access to the beach and if visitors want to, they can come to the beach and experience the true Antigua instead of acting like they are better than us in our own country.

2. This is happening too often and little by little we are losing our rights to access our beaches. Soon we will habe to bathe in our houses anytime we can get some water!

3. The beaches used to be public.Then gradually that public entrances have eroded. Some years ago I went to Yorks Bay. A security guard stopped me from entering an area to the beach.That entry had been use by me many times before. I turned around and went to Long Bay.

4. Antigua doesnt belong to antgans. Rich foreiners rule. Eveyone seems to be happy with the situation. I sometimes feel like living elsewhere, im starting to dislike my own country.

5. Mill Reef all over again!

   #NIGGERS NOT WANTED!

6. Mill Reef all over again!

   #NIGGERS NOT WANTED!
   NO NIGGERS ALLOWED!

7. Not LOCAL GOVERNMENT… COMMUNITY BOARDS… community decisions that matter.

8. When will we stop asking for access and simply storm the damn gate! I’m ready to be apart of the troopers. Say the word !

   • Why wait on someone else to say the word? You can be the catalyst. Put the word out yourself and see how many will join you. That’s the problem imo, everyone is waiting on someone else to start the pushback. Nothing, it seems, is important enough for Antiguans to come together and take a stand.

     Apathy is eroding this sleeping island.

     • Set a day ,,a day when car loads and bus loads,,even boat loads should flood The Point.
       We need to become a more litigious society filing class action lawsuits against the individual police officers,,moonlighting as security,,the Point owners,,the government,,for hampering constitutional rights

9. IS THIS OKAY WITH THE ABLP POLITICIANS?
   ANTIGUANS ARE JUST NIGGERS TO THEM.
   GO BATHE IN COUNTRY POND ANTIGUAN NIGGAS.
   THE BEACHES ARE FOR THE WHITES MASSA.

10. Mr Winter, Mr Prosper, please keep your eyes steadfast on those law enforcement police and defense force people, because they are likely too shoot you in the back.
    Down with RACISM

    • Antiguan’s need to stop talking and complaining so much and do something about this.

11. This is the main problem in Antigua and Barbuda. Too many civil servants are compromised, obeying the directives of the politicians instead of following the law. Many will find themselves in a spot of bother in the not to distant future. Our country in overrun with reprehensible cowards, men and women who will sell their souls for a few dollars more.
    Whoever is over DCA knows damn well the dictates of the law, but deliberately choose to follow the request of the Puppet Master. {Gosh, I wonder who that is?} Make no mistake about it folks, numerous civil servants are following the wrong orders, and I for one, certainly hope these spineless, greedy, selfish individuals answer for their deeds. The idiot DAWG has a vendetta against Antiguans and will ruin this country if he is allowed to continue along this destructive path. Here’s hoping that when he is ousted, and its just a matter of time, full scale investigations will be launched by independent agencies to uncover his sudden wealth, land swaps, NAMCO, the African Saga, the 540 million he borrowed during Covid19 and is trying to deny.

12. I’m so upset I was just denied entrance into valley church beach
    There was this large locked gate
    I had to drive further down to fryes beach..
    I Am going to contact my rep
    And lodge a serious complaint!
    I should be able to access any beach I want anytime I want..
    Pissed off antiguan citizen!😡

13. Set a day ,,a day when car loads and bus loads,,even boat loads should flood The Point.
    We need to become a more litigious society filing class action lawsuits against the individual police officers,,moonlighting as security,,the Point owners,,the government,,for hampering constitutional rights

14. Set a day ,,a day when car loads and bus loads,,even boat loads should flood The Point.
    We need to become a more litigious society filing class action lawsuits against the individual police officers,,moonlighting as security,,for they swore to uphold,,our constitutional rights,,,the Point owners,,for they’re aware that the public,,should have,,,access,,and,the government,,for hampering constitutional rights.

    NAME A DAY FOR ALL TO SHOW UP.

15. Same happening Barbuda. Already PLH fence the area and that is also going to become another ‘Mill Reef” soon, especially as the Council behind the scenes are in PLH pocket.

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