| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1101 | Evan Reiser | Oi! What is this!?
Tourists= Not Jamaica inhabitants
Jamaica Inhabitants= MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU |
| 1102 | Lloyd D'Aguilar | The Spanish are planning over 10,000 more rooms ... aren't we reaching the point of tourism overdevelopment? |
| 1103 | Anonymous | Please leave a small piece of the island for the locals. We all don't have the means to pay pay for everything this includes a dip in God's ocean. |
| 1104 | Omar Beckett | |
| 1105 | Taitu Heron | This beach is worth preserving.... |
| 1106 | Piera Zechini | |
| 1107 | Lee Arbouin | If this government is serious about conservation and that there will be a beautiful island for our children and future generations to inherit then it must preserve Winnifred Beach and areas that once ruined through greed and being myopic will be lost forever
Please, please leave Winnifred Beach a public beach for all to enjoy!. |
| 1108 | Shane Hoilett | I have been to this beach.....and it must forever remain a public property for all jamaicans. |
| 1109 | claudia | peace and love |
| 1110 | Fragano Ledgister | The Jamaican government has to understand that its job is to protect the national patrimony, not exclude Jamaicans from it. |
| 1111 | Catherine Woodley | |
| 1112 | Winston and Anne Price | We have been visiting Jamaica from the UK for many years .
Port Antonio is our favourite location and always look forward to visiting Winifreds beach. Too many of Jamaica's beaches have been taken over by the large hotels and resorts - public beaches are essential for the people of Jamaica and visitors alike. |
| 1113 | Kenneth G. Reeves | I return to Jamaica very often. Sometimes, I stay in Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, and other North Coast areas. I find it most depressing that I will wake early, desirous of catching a early morning swim in the sea, but cannot access any beach.
To access a beach, anywhere in the vicinity of these tourist driven towns, one must be registered as a guest at a beach-front hotel. These hotels joined, hand-in-hand, along the length of the towns, essentially cut off all access. These hotels and private properties form a curtain along the coast line, of these resort towns.
No amount of pleading will afford you access. There are strict rules - If you are not a guest, no access.
I am a Jamaican. No one loves Jamaica the way I do, no one.
I grew up practically in the sea, in the areas around Kingston. I recall the many trips, as a teenager that I enjoyed, on holidays, going to beaches all over the island. I can't recall paying any money, being denied access to any of these beaches. Over the years, things slowly changed, so that now many of those beaches have been cordoned off as private properties.
Understand then, how miserable I must be, now that I live in a landlocked city, deep in the USA. Imagine the suffocation I must endure, because I refuse to pay the high rates charged by all these beach-front hotels.
I support the Winifred effort. Not only should this beach stay free, others that have been captured by big business, over the years, should be made accessible to visitors and the Jamaican public. |
| 1114 | Anonymous | |
| 1115 | Paul Humphries | I am hurt and dismayed by the loss of our beautiful beaches in the name of progress and big business.
Please leave us and our children some part of the island where we can enjoy without having to produce an ID and $100 U.S. |
| 1116 | Paul Humphries | I am hurt and dismayed by the loss of our beautiful beaches in the name of progress and big business.
Please leave us and our children some part of the island where we can enjoy without having to produce an ID and $100 U.S. |
| 1117 | Cathy Kleinhans | It is disgusting what they continue to do to poor people of Jamaica.
Thanks to John Maxwell or else I wouldn't know what's going on. |
| 1118 | Cathy Kleinhans | It is disgusting what they continue to do to poor people of Jamaica.
Thanks to John Maxwell or else I wouldn't know what's going on. |
| 1119 | Anonymous | Free Jamaica from the allowed onslaught of modern day pirates who are raping/terrorising our country, whether they be the Spanish conquistadors or local madmen! |
| 1120 | Pauline J. Ford-Caesar | The beauty of Jamaica is its history, culture and people. To close the beach to the public, separate locals from visitors to the island and present a sanitized version that excludes real Jamaicans, except those in the service sector is demeaning, disrespectful and downright insulting.
No one would think of going to the South of France and denying French people access to their beaches, why is it acceptable to do it in Jamaica, we are no less than anyone else. Good luck with your fight and count me as a supporter. |
| 1121 | Denise McCallaCreary | |
| 1122 | Alaine Grant | |
| 1123 | Frank Williams | |
| 1124 | Thorold Demercado | Free up the beach. |
| 1125 | everett wright | free up the beach |
| 1126 | Nickette McClendon | |
| 1127 | Jason Oswald | |
| 1128 | Letisha Clarke | Let's join hands across Jamaica for our rights. Too long have the cry of our people been neglected. |
| 1129 | Anonymous | |
| 1130 | Paul Ward | |
| 1131 | LEO CAMPBELL | Keep Winnifred Beach open and freely accessible to the Jamaican public. No to UDC development. |
| 1132 | Esteban Agosto Reid | No to UDC.Keep Winnifred Beach as a public beach for all Jamaicans. |
| 1133 | keith wong | no more beach to be taken away from "john public" |
| 1134 | Anonymous | |
| 1135 | Noel H | This little piece of beach for the locals should be left alone. |
| 1136 | Roosevelt Cowan | This is the only beach in Jamaica that I look forward to going whenever I return from overseas. It's holds memories from my childhood days until today. And I will do what ever to ensure my children have the same and even greater memories. WE WILL NOT GIVE IT UP! |
| 1137 | Janet Hopkin | They also did this with Reach Falls spending lots of money to upgrade what was a local source of water while making no effort to to help the people of Reach to get some water in their pipes so that they did not have to carry water for miles. This situation was at least some 15 years in its erosion, both figuratively and physically. I hope some steps have been taken to rectify the situation. They treat country people like dogs because they have no clout to take on the establishment. Plus I don't see how tourism help these people. The money goes to Big Corporations an prominent families. |
| 1138 | Anonymous | We need clean and free beaches for our locals. If the tourists and hoteliers which to use it they need to pay to access it not us. If the trend continues then no one on this island will not have the permission or money to see and touch the sea up close and personal. We live on an island and should always have the capability to step in the sea or ocean without any restriction. |
| 1139 | Anonymous | Keep Jamaica's beaches beautiful and free. |
| 1140 | carl | i have enjoyed the beach on many occasions since 1985 and i too feel that the public should retain their right to this coast free up from the overbuilding of jamaica by corporate concerns. STOP THE PLUNDER..... |
| 1141 | Jill obrig | Help ALL the locals by keeing this beach for every creature, human and animal who've lived here for all of their lives.
No Private Contractors understand ...... they see the price of everything and the value of NOTHING |
| 1142 | miracle | i strongly agree that the winniefred beach should remain a public beach,i dont see why it is that we citizens of this island jamaica should dear pay to go on any beach at all its our country our land.you the gov't never made a beach so u cant charge for land that is not urs!!! wen u can mek beach den u can charge but as for now wat u trying to do is foolishness FREE D DARN BEACH!! |
| 1143 | Dr Mary Sloper | In my 30 years in Jamaica the number of beaches that I can enjoy has reduced steadily. To hear, a year or so ago, that Winnifred's was to become another was the last straw. Pear Tree Bottom went, Laughing Waters went, Porto Seco demanded money to enter. What happened to the law that all beaches below the top waterline belonged to the people? Keep Winnefred's for the people, and reopen the other beaches! |
| 1144 | DJ Archie | Save our public beaches! |
| 1145 | Alicia Vassell | |
| 1146 | Anonymous | |
| 1147 | Anonymous | |
| 1148 | Tessa Talbot | |
| 1149 | Patrick, Rayna, and Kayla Rosshirt | My daughters Rayna and Kayla were born in Portland Parish and learned to swim at Winnifred Beach. Please preserve Winnifred as the most valuable jewel in Jamaica crown. |
| 1150 | Patrick, Rayna, and Kayla Rosshirt | My daughters Rayna and Kayla were born in Portland Parish and learned to swim at Winnifred Beach. Please preserve Winnifred as the most valuable jewel in Jamaica 's crown.. |