REAL NEWS -Senator Alex Browne is refuting claims by the Development Control Authority (DCA) that the access road leading to Laurys Bay is private property.
Browne says the roadway has been in existence for decades, even prior to the foreign developer purchasing lands in the area.
In a recent video, Senator Browne highlighted the fact that the access road leading to Laurys Bay had been fenced off, thereby restricting public access to the community beach.
But, in a quick response, the DCA stated that the road was part of the developer’s private property and he had the right to fence it in.
The agency also claimed that the access road did not lead to a beach – but to a rocky area on the coastline and a jetty.
It was further noted that the land owner has undertaken the construction of a new road adjacent to his property to facilitate access to a different beach.
Meanwhile, the United Progressive Party (UPP) senator says the original route was the only means of accessing Laurys Bay.
It has been used since he was a child, he says, and had been utilized by his father and grandfather, as well.
What appears to have happened, Browne says, is that the land was sold without taking the beach-access road into account.
Hence, a situation has now been created in which a family has to cross the private property to get to their home.
Browne also says the DCA’s claim that the access road leads only to a rocky coastline and a jetty – and not a beach – is a falsehood.
He says there is an area nearby for swimming, in addition to a jetty that has been used by fishermen for decades, and some rocky areas.
Senator Browne says the blocking of the road will affect the livelihood of some families who depend on fishing to make a living.
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UPP Senator, the Honourable Alex Browne (again, a shame about he surname 😁) has the interest of autochthonous Antiguans at heart, by highlighting this move of wilfully denying access to Laury’s Bay area.
Earlier this year, my friends and I wanted to travel to the beach area, and arrived only to see the same said gated barrier attended by an over officious security man and a female gatekeeper who were both determined that “we shall not pass dem at any cost”, after much back and forth my friends and I decided to turn around and find another beach area.
KEEP UP YOUR GOOD WORK SENATOR …
There is nothing honorable about a r*pist. Ask his late wife niece what he did to her in the early 2000’s while she was living with them. He should be in jail. But as usual police full ah s*hit and nah do them work.
No k it ass down people we need to stand up now
So Robin is just sitting by without a word on either side?!! St Phillips North constituents we are all sitting in the same boat and sinking just the same.
This has nothing to do with party affiliation. Wake up! It’s all of our children’s birthright lost/stolen.
By the way, where is the “man”, who had a lot to say about ALP when they were taking lands from us and selling it………..mi a talk bout Colin Browne.
All of a sudden it is no longer an issue to him since he can align himself with the likes of the Labor Party and the hooligans like Gaston Browne on the Browne and Browne radio program.
From Robin to Colin is a bunch of sell out!! Right from under the people of St Phillip’s North.
Do what Chandler and his backhoe did down at Valley Church!!! Can’t forget dat!
Antiguans are just losing on all sides and corners..it’s just sad and sickening quite frankly..
Not many in power standing up for the people who voted for them, it’s a bloody shame..
We have a leader who love to travel and stay in nice expensive hotels and give fancy speeches, but don’t have the guts to stand up for his own people, like how he stood up for a 1000 known fugitives from Africa, giving them water parade and all.
At least we still have a few who are looking out for Antiguans, in a day and age where a little is really much.
Access to a beach might be trivial in some eyes, but it shows comparison to us who are getting pushed out day by day out of the land that we were birth and love.
Amen to that Islanman26 👍🏾
Somebody or bodies need to take down that fence. You’ve got to send a clear message or forever wsil and wring your hands. Stand up for your rights Antiguans. Barbudans stood up and still fighting for theirs.
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