Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’ (opens in new tab)

Activists argue business model is ‘plantation tourism’ designed to benefit elite and disadvantage most JamaicansDevon Taylor remembers when the Mammee Bay shoreline in St Ann, Jamaica, was filled with children frolicking in the ocean after school, fishers haggling with locals over the price of their daily catch and craft vendors carving souvenirs under almond trees.“I grew up on Mammee Bay,” Taylor says. He recalls fetching seawater in bottles for his grandmother when she was no longer able t...