Unseemly quarrel over beach access
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August 2, 2026
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Jamaica’s Beach Control Act is awesome evidence of the expansive, far-seeing vision of late National Hero Norman Washington Manley, co-founder of the now Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) and father of the late Prime Minister Michael Manley.
As chief minister in the late 1950s, the elder Manley piloted a Bill that established a statutory framework for the control, allocation and management of Jamaica’s foreshore, the floor of the sea and the use of beaches.
Importantly, the central tenet of the Bill was about the regulation of competing claims to coastal space and access, and not about beach ownership in the abstract.
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