Companies should be sued for preventing access to beaches – Sam Henry
On the Speak Your Mind show aired on September 7, 2013 the host cited a recent case where a judgment was returned against the Minister responsible for Labour indicating that more evidence was required to support a decision to deny a work permit extension for an employee of a company.
Similarly, he suggested, documented evidence should be produced for persons who felt they were being discriminated against in issues related to places such as Biras Creek and Oil Nut Bay.
“It’s coming to that point, whether you want to do it or not. If you feel you’re being treated badly, you’re being discriminated against, you’re being blocked from going into the beach… you’ve got cameras on your phone. Start documenting these things, stay within the law and document these things. When you’re done sue the crap out of these people,” Henry recommended.
Henry said many companies do not like to be associated with anything negative or have their name called in racist or discrimination cases and would therefore do whatever it takes to ensure that they remain within the boundaries of the law.
According to Henry, the laws which are relevant to the situation and were revamped in 2004 clearly outline that even with private development, there must be either landward or seaward access to any beach, “even if you ship in the 500,000 tonnes of sand to create that beach, it now becomes a public access beach,” he stated.
“If there is a problem getting to any place and you’re experiencing that problem, document the problem, put it on tape, have a good conversation. Stay within the law, don’t break the law, don’t get foolish, don’t get angry…” Henry said.
“If you’re the person who is the victim, have your co-worker put on their camera on their phone and tape the conversation, tape the situation. Get two or three of that and then go see your lawyer,” he advised, “don’t sit an keep complaining and complaining.”
He also advised that persons who felt they were being discriminated against at work should first ensure that they were themselves within the law and observing company rules and requirements in various instances. “When you document your situation you have a clear cut case,” he added.
“All of us feel a sense of discrimination and bias and we all have to react but we should react with our brains, not with our mouths and our hands and our guns and things like that,” Henry said.
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14 Responses to “Companies should be sued for preventing access to beaches – Sam Henry”
It's nothing to do with race, fool. It's to do with how people act, regardless of their skin.
Don't start blaming whole sections of people and trying to start a race thing. Most whites here don't have power over who goes where, white or black. It's some hotel owners, some government ministers, some greedy local people – all just humans with red blood and in this case, bad attitudes towards the public.
Damn race haters going to ruin this island with your false generalizations.