Earl Colby Pottinger

"KNRX" <knrx2000@> :

> Sorry to learn about your ordeal at Crane Beach. You should seek
> redress through the Ministry of Tourism of Barbados. I believe there
> is an office attached to the Barbados High Commission in London. Keep
> in mind that all beaches in Barbados are public up to the high water
> mark and have been so since the 1940s. The problems we are having with
> beach access occur most frequently where resort development (mostly
> foreign owned - The Crane is owned by Canadians) intentionally or
> unintentionally has blocked traditional beach access points.
> Government and local pressure groups are working to correct these
> problems for the benefit of all - both locals and visitors.

Interesting you said Canadians own the beach.

Here in Ontario, Canada my cottage/lake association was able to force a
right-of-way thru the property owned by a very rich family who had tried to
get thier land registered as a nature preserve to keep others out.

The dirt road running thru the property was close to a hundred years old and
what use to access a bay (public land) where cottagers kept thier boats to
access thier cottages that were near-by or on islands. When the family
bought about four hundred acres and built a cottage there they insisted that
it was thier land and no-one else could trespass (sp?). However, since this
road had been in use for decades before the courts ruled cottages could still
use it.

Note: Cottages only have the right to drive and maintain the road in it
present condition. They can not add any branches off the road, they can not
upgrade it without the lanowner's premission, they can not extend it to
access additional cottages that are not presently serviced by the road and
the bay.

Is Barbados a british colony? If so the same early right-of-way laws that
are in Canada's law books would apply there.

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