Crane Beach, Barbados - WRECKED

"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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"Earl Colby Pottinger" <earlcolby.pottinger@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> "KNRX" <knrx2000@**********> :
benefit of all - both locals and visitors.
>
> Interesting you said Canadians own the beach.
>

There is a little missunderstanding here. The Crane Beach is not owned by
canadians. The Crane Beach Hotel are owned by canadians. Located right over
the beach...
It is a sad thing that they charge money to go trough.
I remember visiting Sam Lords Castle in the old days, we had to pay just to
visit the property, to take a look at the hotel. Not good at all.

When that is said, I think it is not fair to complain to the hotel that the
price is different from what is said in a travel book. Prices changes for
all kinds of things. And what is said in the book about prices will sooner
or later be wrong.
Like in this case.
That you were met with a attitude towards this is not nice, but not
surprisingly either. That is some times the bajan way to be. Very nice
people, but just dont dear to complain about something.

Leif Arild
Norway

"Earl Colby Pottinger" <earlcolby.pottinger@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> "KNRX" <knrx2000@**********> :

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

It used to be a british colony.

It was actually the portugese that were the first europeans to come to the
island. But they never settled there. They came in 1535 (if I remember
right), and it would take almost 100 years before the british came (in
1625) to the island.
They started their settlings in 1627, and it was a british colony until
30th novemnber 1966 when they became independent.
So, this year is 40 years of independence.

Yet, Britain still have their queens representative in the island.


Leif Arild
Norway

"Petal and Leif" <lejensen@online.no> :

> There is a little missunderstanding here. The Crane Beach is not owned by
> canadians. The Crane Beach Hotel are owned by canadians. Located right over

> the beach...

I am aware of that. I am saying as Canadians they should already be aware of
laws governing Right-of-Way and that it tends to favour the general public
over the land owner if the regular use of the right-of-way can be shown to
have existed for a long period before the land owner tries to block it.

> It is a sad thing that they charge money to go trough.
> I remember visiting Sam Lords Castle in the old days, we had to pay just to

> visit the property, to take a look at the hotel. Not good at all.

There is a diffirence if you are going from public property to private
property. But for public property to public property blocking/charging for
the right-of-way is a shakey position for the land owner to be in.

Basicly, I am talking about British laws that many of it's colonies still
follow after going independant.

Earl Colby Pottinger

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