Address Sugar Mill beach access issue to prevent ‘unwarranted outcomes’- Hon Fahie
In a letter to the Minister, who is also the Deputy Premier, Hon Fahie contended there is need for urgent intervention to prevent “unwarranted outcomes.”
On January 11, 2017 this news site first and accurately reported that a Manager of the Sugar Mill Hotel was being accused of attempting to force a local family off the beach there but was met with strong resistance, which almost turned violent.
According to Mrs Myrtle L. Stoutt-Fraites, herself and family were on the beach on January 8, 2017when the owner/manager of Sugar Mill Hotel told them they could not sit on the chair, use the hammock and allegedly even asked the children to come out of the water.
The family reportedly refused to comply to the manager’s orders and consequently he allegedly took the hammock off the pole while one of them was still in it. “So, they got up off of that but we got up off of nothing else and did not leave that beach until 8:30 P.M.”
“The other thing he told us is that we must go to Cane Garden Bay and swim…” Mrs Stoutt-Fraites told Virgin Islands News Online.
‘Have this matter resolved’
Meanwhile, Hon Fahie forwarded to this news site a copy of letter he has dispatched to Minister with responsibility for beaches, Hon Pickering.
In the letter, Hon Fahie stated that he was writing in the capacity as the Representative requesting Hon Pickering’s “immediate intervention in the matter of the public's access to the beach across from the Sugar Mill Hotel being denied apparently by the owner and management of the said hotel.”
Entrance to beach allegedly being fenced
The District Representative also stated that he continues to get numerous complaints on the matter and stated that there now seems to be efforts by the management of the hotel to restrict access to the beach via land.
“Also the beach entrance seems to now be in the process of being fenced with my understanding being that a gate that will be locked, placed on the site. Needless to say that the public will now have no further access to the beach.”
Hon Fahie said he was appealing to the Minister to intervene forthwith to have this matter resolved in an amicable manner to all concerned.
“If not addressed in an urgent and amicable manner, may result in unwarranted outcomes. I look forward to your immediate action on behalf of the people of the First District and the entire BVI on this matter while keeping me as the represented fully informed at all stages. I await your response and action,” the letter sent to our newsroom today, January 13, 2017 stated.
This news site was unable to reach the Manager of Sugar Mill Hotel up to the time of publication.
See link to related story below:
http://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/en/news/another-local-family-allegedly-ordered-off-beach
32 Responses to “Address Sugar Mill beach access issue to prevent ‘unwarranted outcomes’- Hon Fahie”
One must learn from the past and do things different in the present and hopeful future. Make the Virgin Islands Great Again.
this is one fight you ain't going to win with your aggressive and bully style attitude.
You might as well pack your bags and go back to England because your arrogant ways won't cut it here in the BVI.
who his friends are, and who he Really represents.
I remember well the Opinion he expressed by the "Done Deal Doc", when the NDP guys made their first appearance after the lashing th VIP gave them in the 2007 3l3ction. (11 to 2).
Pico basically said that he had pondered why the electorate had abandoned them like that and opined that "perhaps
they were ahead of the people to Advanced for them"
We don't even have land easement requirement in placed to get to our Beaches.
Back in the Days, it was Lambert and Smugglers Beaches when the owners in those areas wanted to lock us out from land access. Now today, still going on.
Where is the Town and Country Planning Department in this Matter?
People - It's Time to Stand-UP for our Rights! Or accept becoming mere Peasants in Our Own Land.
Further, we are used to beach parties long before "True" arrived. We know how to clean up after beach parties. Tola people always walk with our trash from our beaches. After all they are OURS and we have to protect them. Go SIDDUNG from airing your mouth.
and for all, not only with the beach by the hotel in question, BUT WITH EVERY BEACH IN THE BVI. Lets' take a page out of Barbados, for example and hopefully hold on to at least one shred of our Virgin Islands heritage. We have lost too much already.