‘Foreshore and floor of the sea declared to be vested in the crown’
or What is there at the edge of the beach?
‘Foreshore and floor of the sea declared to be vested in the Crown’.
https://www.nepa.gov.jm/sites/default/files/2019-11/Beach_Control_Act_1956.pdf
https://www.jabbem.org/
The all-inclusive emerges through what the I term colonialist consolidation: the post-1956 transformation of Jamaica’s coastline from communal land into privately owned, fenced, and centrally managed territories. Everything is brought in, all voices, all perspectives, all mediums, even the food; then an audience interrupted and irritated by former fisherman selling baskets. Total coverage, like a big blue tarpaulin. This shift has progressively restricted local access to the coast, replacing lived, shared space with controlled zones of leisure for a select few. My brother cannot go on the beach, cannot access the sun loungers, he faces the security posts, the lookouts, and demarcated edges, operating together to produce a predictable, suspended experience of time and movement. Edge-walking becomes a political act.