#TurksandCaicos, January 18, 2018 – Providenciales – A confrontation on New Years Day in the Turks and Caicos on one its top 5 coastal spots – Taylor Bay Beach – led to this on Saturday; residents braved cool, rainy weather to hold a protest beach party where at least three former country leaders showed up to demonstrate solidarity in a case where a private homeowner claims he owns the beach property.
“I will charge you for trespassing” said the homeowner.
There is a circulating cell phone video captured by the Turks and Caicos Islander affronted by the man, who has the law all wrong. No one can own a beach because they are public. However, another former chief minister in a press conference just days after the confrontation explained the public beach access is missing and remains an unsettled matter since in the 1980s.
“…the Crown, on the CPL for the community roads in The Bight actually entered into a CPL with another local company….the issue of access apparently has never been completely settled.”
These photographs show all races and all sectors, current and former government leaders coming out to demonstrate to the homeowner that he is way off base with the claims of being owner of Taylor Bay Beach, many have also charged the man with racism. A petition to protest the lack of public beach access is now launched.
