Beach ‘battle’

CARLISLE BAY (Internet Image)

By Heather-Lynn Evanson | Sun, July 01, 2012 - 12:09 AM

BARBADIANS ARE BEING SQUEEZED by cruise ship and hotel visitors on one of the most popular beaches on the island.

And it is a situation that has experts worried and looking carefully at further development along the two-and-a-half-kilometre stretch of beach that is Carlisle Bay.

The reports came from director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU), Dr Leo Brewster, and heritage consultant and vice-president of the Barbados Garrison Consortium Inc., Peter Stevens.

They were taking part in a CZMU panel discussion on the Garrison Historic Area and Carlisle Bay on Wednesday night.

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Posted by Winston Grecia 11 months, 3 weeks ago: Load of Baloney, the tourist come to this island for the sea and sand, if the beach is not blocked off how can the Bajans be squeezed out.
Why dont we just tell the foreigners to stop coming here so that we will be the only ones on the beach

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Posted by prive8 caribbeanman 11 months, 3 weeks ago: well, it's about time this matter was aired and, i hope, addressed. this matter of cruise ships arriving in port, dumping their passengers onto the beach, and one can't have a relaxing beach day free of the stench of suntan lotion, twangy chatter, and the racist arrogance of lounging visitors occupying almost every metre of the beach. i have no objection to visitors per se. they bring revenue. i do, however, object to those in the tourist industry for whom the welfare of nationals merit little consideration.
my guess is that this post will be censored. so be it. the truth has an obstinacy of its own. it will surface.

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Posted by RICHARD power 11 months, 3 weeks ago: Well these things happen when you don't observe what has happened to all the other islands. Its called big business and Barbados has fell prey to it. You could see this coming every since. But we are highly educated aren't we? Nothing like
like what is happening to the other islands would ever happen to us! would it?

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Posted by Pan Wallie 11 months, 3 weeks ago: My! my, my, the beach has become to small to accomodate evabody? Now we have a new meaning of beach jam(LOL)! Well since we Bajan beach bums accustom to the beach already, and seeing how we neeeeeed the tourist dollar, be it resolved that we leave the tourist to enjoy the golden sand and built a overpath/ walkover from 1/2 mile or so inland straight into the sea, so that we could still get a little sea bath.

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Posted by Winston Grecia 11 months, 3 weeks ago: If you do not like the smell of suntan lotion and twangy chatter then just take your self 200 meters up the beach where there are no tourist with their racist arrogance, it is so simple, as I have never seen the length of that beach packed to where there was no space

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Posted by Margaret King 3 months, 2 weeks ago: That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I have been right there on that very beach and there is lots of space for everyone. And I've met some lovely people. Squeezed off a beach? Is the beach that tiny? Sigh!