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Beaches reopen from Sunday for exercise & therapy only!

- users must strictly adhere to social distancing standards
Beaches in the Virgin Islands will reopen on Sunday, May 10, 2020 from 6:01 am but not for recreational use. Photo: VINO/File
According to Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1), in a live COVID-19 update minutes ago, May 8, 2020, beaches across the Territory will be reopened only for the purpose of exercise and therapy. Photo: Facebook
According to Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1), in a live COVID-19 update minutes ago, May 8, 2020, beaches across the Territory will be reopened only for the purpose of exercise and therapy. Photo: Facebook
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Beaches in the Virgin Islands will reopen from Sunday, May 10, 2020, from 6:01 am to 1:00 pm daily but not for recreational use.

According to Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1), in a live COVID-19 update minutes ago, May 8, 2020, beaches across the Territory will be reopened only for the purpose of exercise and therapy.

He; however, warned that users must adhere to social distancing standards and other measures against the spread of the Novel Coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Hon Fahie said the activity of beach users would be monitored and persons failing to comply to COVID-19 measures can result in beaches being closed again.

From Sunday, May 10, 2020, the new curfew in place will run from 7:00 pm to 6:00 am.

More details to follow.

66 Responses to “Beaches reopen from Sunday for exercise & therapy only!”

  • @Unpleasant truths < Comforting Lies (08/05/2020, 14:32) Like (47) Dislike (24) Reply
    Unpleasant truths < Comforting Lies

    People, we are being led to g the slaughter house you need to take time and think about the things and the decisions that’s being made for the country and not only here but around the world, they are not telling you everything, whether you believe in this virus or not there’s a lot more going on, check what’s happening around you, farmers are being instructed to destroy their crops, livestock’s etc theres gonna be food shortages, prices for meat are gonna sky rocket, people are gonna starve, the big companies for meat etc are closing down, this new regular is gonna be hell on earth, these are the last days, plant a seed everyday, get back to the old ways, learn the basics of survival because when this thing unfolds it’ll be something you never witness before and you don’t want to be unprepared. Most people won’t believe because it’s easier to fool people, than to convince them that they've been fooled !!
    • World (08/05/2020, 15:16) Like (40) Dislike (4) Reply
      The world is being controlled by the Illuminati they want us to take vaccine and insert chips to sell our souls to the devil. But I will not be taking any vaccine or chip.
      • @World (08/05/2020, 16:30) Like (10) Dislike (2) Reply
        Facts and 90 percent of this population saying they won’t take the mark that’s coming but 90% of them will, they don’t have nothing prepared not to take the mark, they don’t have their own food supplies, they don’t have a garden, they don’t have any weapons to protect themselves or their families, some of them have kids to look out for, some don’t know how to get water or even turn salt water into clean drinking water, they don’t know how to get water naturally, some of them got family overseas that they’ll wanna see and you can’t go out in public anymore, a lot of them ain’t prepared for this, I been secretly prepping with the money I made from my business for a few years
        • g (09/05/2020, 15:50) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
          @ @World....Me too. I saw this coming years ago by reading and keeping up to date with how everything was changing slowly, so most people didn't think about it. I am a Prepper and will live off the grid on my land until I die. People better wake up and start planting some food...FAST!
  • Issa setup (08/05/2020, 14:34) Like (54) Dislike (9) Reply
    Nothing about this “pandemic” and everything that’s happened since adds up. Something is definitely off and I keep getting told 1+1=3 and I just can’t swallow it.
    • watching (08/05/2020, 15:15) Like (25) Dislike (3) Reply
      This new regular agenda is what the Illuminati heads around the world want each country and territory to follow.
    • Observer (08/05/2020, 15:26) Like (16) Dislike (4) Reply
      I’m glad to see people coming to their senses this virus is made by Illuminati heads.
  • Norris Turnbull (08/05/2020, 14:38) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
    Can we swim?
    • Yes (08/05/2020, 15:13) Like (5) Dislike (6) Reply
      Yes idiot
    • Youth (08/05/2020, 15:48) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
      Is that not exercise?
    • Watch Dog (08/05/2020, 16:44) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
      Yes you can but no drinks, especially no "sex on the beach"
      • Watch Dogging (08/05/2020, 17:16) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
        what if its dark
      • I feel sexy (08/05/2020, 19:33) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
        Mate, that is both exercise and therapy. Win win.
      • Fran (08/05/2020, 22:04) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
        How will the beach bars keep people at a safe distance? I will have take out only, put the distancing lines on the floor, have a sanitizer at the window, put up plexyglass with a serving slot to pass food out. I have to keep me safe too. No one served without a mask!!!!!
    • Greg (08/05/2020, 21:42) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
      Recreational use would be swimming, walking, jogging, enjoying the sun. Not hanging in groups, BBQing, drinking booze, music and dancing like you always do. Keeping a safe distance means keeping yourself safe, but some people will not adhere to the rules. I have already seen people out of my window, in small groups on the beach daily, which they were not even supposed to be on, without distancing at all. I will walk and swim very early before anyone gets there, and go back home. Mark my words, this will be a nightmare because people don't listen.
  • great (08/05/2020, 14:38) Like (30) Dislike (0) Reply
    I’m happy to see the bvi reopening slowly but people don’t take advantage if you know you don’t need to be out our u don’t really need to go to the beach and you just want to be out to party and gossip with friends stay home. We don’t want this virus rise here.
    • voter (08/05/2020, 15:43) Like (8) Dislike (12) Reply
      Please stop treating us like a bunch of little kids!! We have followed the protocols so far we don’t need anyone spying on us at the beach. Do you can go to the beach but not swim? Where will this end? The bedroom!!!
  • Eh eh (08/05/2020, 14:38) Like (7) Dislike (16) Reply
    Nice the beach heals I’m glad western union and money gram remain close!!
  • Yess agree (08/05/2020, 14:39) Like (6) Dislike (25) Reply
    Them island people was waiting to hear them money transfer services open
    • TecMan (08/05/2020, 16:21) Like (20) Dislike (0) Reply
      It is obvious you are stupid ! do you think Money Gram and Western Union are the only means of getting money to anywhere in the world? When one door is close another will open.
  • Oh Please (08/05/2020, 14:40) Like (26) Dislike (1) Reply
    Beaches will be packed now like never before let’s don’t talk about cane garden bay and beef island..
  • People (08/05/2020, 14:41) Like (19) Dislike (1) Reply
    People don’t go running out to these beaches like is the first you’ve seen them. Let’s take things slowly.
  • wow (08/05/2020, 14:42) Like (7) Dislike (33) Reply
    I could done see people over doing it especially them from the island.
    • Continent (08/05/2020, 15:15) Like (16) Dislike (4) Reply
      You sound so ignorant about about island people.are you from a continent
      • @ Continent (08/05/2020, 16:37) Like (18) Dislike (0) Reply
        Do not respond to this fool. It is the same person who blogs the same thing regardless of the topic. It is obvious he/she is suffering some form a form of sickness that hinders his ability to read and make any significant contribution to any editorial on this site.
    • HMMM (08/05/2020, 21:50) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      SMH, YOU SO WISH Y'ALL HAVE RIVERS,STREAMS ,WATERFALLS PLUS SEA WATER HERE, then you would of able to choose one to go wash out yo tainted mouth into, Island people ain't short of water.
  • Chuh (08/05/2020, 14:43) Like (20) Dislike (0) Reply
    One beach that wouldn’t catch me is cane garden bay and beef island I’ll find a empty beach or one with little few.
  • sadd (08/05/2020, 14:44) Like (39) Dislike (5) Reply
    Mentality of this world

    US people= don’t like Mexican

    Bvi & Usvi people= don’t like other Caribbean people
  • trrefdrfds (08/05/2020, 14:45) Like (15) Dislike (15) Reply
    If y’all don’t like what the govt doing catch the flight back to the island you from
  • guess what (08/05/2020, 14:46) Like (32) Dislike (8) Reply
    Beach wouldn’t be so bad them Jamaicans done bleach out them face while home on quarantine them can’t go the beach to take that sun
    • @Guess What (09/05/2020, 11:32) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      After all the bleaching those Jam downs be doing the bleaching killed of their skin cells. You can always tell a skin bleacher. Funny how you see them black as tar one month and the next month they are light skin. Is Vincy’s into skin bleaching also?

  • mad (08/05/2020, 14:47) Like (17) Dislike (29) Reply
    Open THE BORDERS SEND SOME THESE UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WHO ON WORMING PERMIT BELOW 5 years. THOSE FROM THE CARIBBEAN NOT THE WHITES THEM RESPECTFUL
    • wow (08/05/2020, 15:57) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
      dumba$$
    • wacky (08/05/2020, 16:10) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
      Mad
      Please attend summer school.
    • @mad (09/05/2020, 15:43) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      If you think you got kudos to form the "whites' THINK AGAIN. In fact, they are so respectful they won't write or read these blogs. They don't need to say anything while you are running your mouth they are buying all your lands and erecting barriers around your beaches. Soo you all will be pushed into the sea and become the slaves you are. I hope they will teach you English too.
  • Close them (08/05/2020, 14:48) Like (20) Dislike (5) Reply
    Close them back until people can follow the rules this virus will get out of control here trust my words
    • @Close them (08/05/2020, 20:00) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
      For real, the cases is going to escalate very soon. People is going to start acting a fool on the beach. I can sit on my balcony and look at the beach.
  • facts (08/05/2020, 14:49) Like (10) Dislike (1) Reply
    Home beaches work wherever you at yiou can get the virus still cause someone can bring it to you, close family member or friend. So stop telling the giver to close down the place.
  • Corona (08/05/2020, 14:53) Like (8) Dislike (14) Reply
    gonna have big party at the beach. tanks man.
  • Anegadian (08/05/2020, 14:55) Like (13) Dislike (5) Reply
    We up in anegada couldn’t go the beach because them people ayoo dumb tolian people let in bring the virus here.
  • Ayoo funny (08/05/2020, 14:56) Like (8) Dislike (3) Reply
    Fr thou send them home who out of jobs
  • Vincy people (08/05/2020, 14:57) Like (7) Dislike (6) Reply
    Some Vincent people done left but that wasn’t enough i talking about close to 499 people out
  • facts (08/05/2020, 15:07) Like (17) Dislike (14) Reply
    the VIP is the best hope for the BVI
  • o (08/05/2020, 15:12) Like (4) Dislike (3) Reply
    I Agree that beaches reopen Again because the beach air contains IODIEN IS A GOOD TERAPY FOR EXCERSICE AND YOUR HEALT
  • Don’t be stupid (08/05/2020, 15:19) Like (14) Dislike (3) Reply
    People of the VIRGIN ISLANDS BVI AND USVI DO NOT TAKE THIS VACCINE OR THE CHIP THING THEY WANT US TAKE. THEY WANT US TO SELL OUR SOULS THE LORD IS COMING SOON AND THIS VIRUS THEY TRYNA SWAY AWAY ALOT OF US AND DISTRACT OF FROM GOD. ILLUMINATI IS REAL!!
  • mark my words (08/05/2020, 15:20) Like (5) Dislike (7) Reply
    Before May end our cases will be back high trust my words.
  • Listen out (08/05/2020, 15:21) Like (7) Dislike (6) Reply
    Covid 19 New regular = Illuminati
  • u (08/05/2020, 15:51) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    @ Eh Eh u take your lazy a*s go look work and stop looking at people money jolusy is as cureal as d grave u can send island people out because we have already teacher u Evey thing don't worry it was for 99c keep the change
  • concerned citizen (08/05/2020, 16:06) Like (16) Dislike (2) Reply
    Dear Mr. Premier, as the time of the curfew becomes more relaxed, I am asking you please to help businesses and other people who will be joining to their homes at the early evenings by prohibiting the use of ski masks and the like. It is already hard for many people to identify persons who they may think they know when in fact it is sometimes a stranger. This is already hard to identify with the simple masks. The banks have us momentarily remove the masks to show our faces, and that's within daytime. I want to feel safe when I'm leaving my place, and it have to worry about the person who either walks up to me or enter the store. I have no protection: no mase, no taser, no gun...how will I fair in the world of new normal?
    Imagine I am a business owner or employee of a business, I am either closing or going home...its already dark and we have seen the many reports of robberies PRIOR to the lockdown. Imagine what will happen now with the mandatory use of masks in public places, moreover during the evenings? Chaos! Can you not see already? Most people leave a venue at the exact time the curfew comes into place. This leaves our roads with roughly two or more hours of traffic before everything is quiet, by this time it is dead of night. Mercy!
    Those masks that cover the whole bottom of the face, some even covering the entire head. I am pleading with you please, have some restrictions with the mask usage.
  • Local (08/05/2020, 16:33) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
    Remember the Government is not the People - But The People is the Government.
    The Government do not produce or manufacture anything. All monies that the Government receive and give back to the people comes from Businesses and the Employees contributing in the form of Taxes etc.
    That is how the Government exist.

    • concerned citizen (08/05/2020, 17:27) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
      Alright my friend! I guess when they are at your steps or in your face you could tell them that you were the one who for their democratic right. This will definitely gave you leverage to negotiate a soft/safe blowback.

      Okay
    • time (09/05/2020, 07:27) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      That means soon it would exist.
  • You are so correct @unpleasant truth (08/05/2020, 17:37) Like (1) Dislike (4) Reply
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&time_continue=3&v=XF9wtBcWepM&app=desktop
    WOW! Lets see if they will remove the link again
  • Spring Bay (08/05/2020, 20:03) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Any update on the incident with the officer
  • trrefdrfds (08/05/2020, 20:28) Like (1) Dislike (9) Reply

    Yet the freeloading Go****** & his whole family get a private pool paid for by us to enjoy as we suffer & lose our livelihoods & can’t even swim in our seas freely. Why are they here? Just to make us suffer & us to pay them to do that? Wake up BVI!

  • @@world (08/05/2020, 20:45) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    Little do u know the mark is already worn by so many of us .....that extra love for money over humanity.......remember that song ..the day the dollar die ..it can't wen we running it down forgetting the caring and sharing of the old days ......the mark wouldn't be something force on u the bible speck of it will be something willingly we man kind go accept. It only wen it to late we will try to escaped it but still can't because it would be wat we become ....remember the camel wat went through the eye of the needle before the rich man go to heaven...that because heaven dont spend money ..Richman scared to leave his wealth behind..for he is mark already.....haaaaaa
  • old (08/05/2020, 22:12) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
    These unsave people .every thing is covib19 and island people .God will close some of you all mouth soon .Just a matter of time .
    • @old (09/05/2020, 07:46) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
      Do you not know that even the “saved” sin.

      Stop saying what God would or wouldn’t do as if He made you alternate Judge
  • Don't worry (10/05/2020, 14:59) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    God soon come back from his cantnent people I warn you of that hate this is no joke some thing is going to happen please stop it in the 80s there was just a handful of house here with one contractor which is ja***e so what s the hate now


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