Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’
The Blue Lagoon has a fluid colour palette that is turquoise, sapphire or azure depending on how the sun hits it. Photograph: Destinee Condison/The GuardianView image in fullscreenThe Blue Lagoon has a fluid colour palette that is turquoise, sapphire or azure depending on how the sun hits it. He recalls fetching seawater in bottles for his grandmother when she was no longer able to go to the beach, learning to swim in the shallows, and watching generations of fishers cast their nets.
- ▪The Blue Lagoon has a fluid colour palette that is turquoise, sapphire or azure depending on how the sun hits it.
- ▪Photograph: Destinee Condison/The GuardianView image in fullscreenThe Blue Lagoon has a fluid colour palette that is turquoise, sapphire or azure depending on how the sun hits it.
- ▪He recalls fetching seawater in bottles for his grandmother when she was no longer able to go to the beach, learning to swim in the shallows, and watching generations of fishers cast their nets.
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| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jun/14/jamaica-beach-access-crisis-plantation-tourism |
| Publication time | Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:00:41 GMT |
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The Blue Lagoon has a fluid colour palette that is turquoise, sapphire or azure depending on how the sun hits it. Photograph: Destinee Condison/The GuardianView image in fullscreenThe Blue Lagoon has a fluid colour palette that is turquoise, sapphire or azure depending on how the sun hits it. Photograph: Destinee Condison/The GuardianCotton Capital: ongoing seriesJamaicaJamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’Activists argue business model is ‘plantation tourism’ designed to benefit elite and disadvantage most Jamaicans Campaigners go to court to fight privatisation of Jamaican coast Natricia Duncan in St Ann and Anthony Lugg in KingstonSun 14 Jun 2026 07.00 EDTLast modified on Sun 14 Jun 2026 07.22 EDTShareDevon Taylor remembers when the…
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