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Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fi…
Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’
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Guardian Environment
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Natricia Duncan in St Ann and Anthony Lugg in Kingston
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14 Jun 2026 · 11:00 UTC
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Corporate Control
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1 min read
Summary
Documents systematic privatization of public coastal resources by corporate interests, restricting citizens' access to traditional livelihoods and community spaces—exemplifying corporate monopoly control and neo-colonial economic exploitation.
Activists argue business model is ‘plantation tourism’ designed to benefit elite and disadvantage most Jamaicans Campaigners go to court to fight privatisation of Jamaican coast Devon Taylor remembers when the Mammee Bay shoreline in St Ann, Jamaica, was filled with children frolicking in the ocean after school, fishers haggling with locals over the price of their daily catch and craft vendors carving souvenirs under almond trees. “I grew up on Mammee Bay,” Taylor says. He recalls fetching seawater in bottles for his grandmother when she was no longer able to go to the beach, learning to swim in the shallows, and watching generations of fishers cast their nets. “That beach raised us. It fed us.” Continue reading...
privatization
resource enclosure
economic inequality
colonial exploitation
public goods commodification
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