Reclaiming the roads

Treasure Beach Forum: TB Runnin's: Reclaiming the roads
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By DOC on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 04:45 pm: Edit Post

When will the powers that be retake the roads of Treasure Beach from land owners in Billys' Bay, Frenchman, Lewis Town, and Bluntas. These land owners over the years have gradually moved their fences forward and have encroach on land belonging to the state. If my memory serves me right Great Bay may be the only community in TB were you don't see wall curving to the road. The TB development committee or the citizens association needs to approach the councillor or MP to fix this land grab.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By legal limit on Monday, March 21, 2011 - 08:58 am: Edit Post

What is the legal limit for fences and structures from the road. I see little shops and restaurants doing this too. How do we know if one is legal and one is not because they are all differet distances.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rootsinclusive on Monday, March 21, 2011 - 12:07 pm: Edit Post

Boundaries should be established especially as there is more use and by larger vehicles.

Why are large trucks allowed to race through the community and blow their airhorns? Up north they would all be locked up.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By DOC on Monday, March 21, 2011 - 06:09 pm: Edit Post

@RootsInclusive

I wonder about these trucks all the time. Most if not all of these trucks are delivering materials for construction or for grocery shops. We as a people need to tell the owners of these trucks that unless they get their drives to drive slowly they won't be welcome in TB and we will no longer do business with them. The other option is to do it like up North and put large speed bumps in,


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By setbacks on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 07:21 am: Edit Post

seriously are there rules for setbacks required from the roads. there should be.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rootsinclusive on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 09:11 am: Edit Post

Do our Justices of the Peace take action, or request it, if there is an insult of one kind or another to their community?

According to the Ministry of Justice, a Justice of the peace is a person of unquestionable integrity who seeks to promote and protect the rights of the individual and helps to provide justice to persons in a particular community. Additionally, the JP serves as a justice in petty court sessions, attends juvenile court sessions, issues summonses, considers applications for bail, explains and signs legal documents, sits on licensing panels, and gives counsel/advice. Any Jamaican citizen that can speak and write English is eligible to become a JP. Any club/organisation/citizen can recommend someone to become JP for a community. JPs are chosen under the Governor-General's discretion.

This taken from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Home owner on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 05:32 am: Edit Post

Please don't assume that all home owners with wall fence take public roads because I sure didn't instead I took my walls in closer to my house.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By setbacks on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 09:42 am: Edit Post

still asking what the law is


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By home howner 2 on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 01:23 pm: Edit Post

I know of a couple of home owners that have property in BBay and Ft. Charles, they all have legal documents, with land marks issue by the goverment, you may no be talking abouth those, but then I wonder what would you be talking, about, one is the goat farm, the old property line is on the mittle of theire property, all these was done by land survey agents.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By cant tare down on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 06:05 pm: Edit Post

wut about striky jerk place. wut about heart of love smurf. both close to road. going to make dem tare down. wrong to do that.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By DOC on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 08:39 am: Edit Post

Heart of love smurf has been there for years, they are not the problem. I have never been anywhere else and see wall that curve to match the corner the road makes. Many of these land owners property line uses to be stepped back. I grew up in TB and over the years whenever these landowners put a new fence in it goes closer to the road. There is a wall across from Kingfisher Plaza that no one can see around and another right across from Big Kasha tree in Frenchman.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Native on Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 09:54 pm: Edit Post

The Black River Parish Council should not allow people to construct walls to blind a corner or infringe on the size of the roads.It is sad to see that people have stolen roads, wells and land in the area. Are we loosing our integrity and self worth? Shame on the offenders!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Clueless on Monday, March 28, 2011 - 04:31 pm: Edit Post

It is obvious the Parish Council were not doing a good job to maintain the standard of persons not encroaching on government's property, thus making it dangerous for drivers and pedestrians too. What's the reason for them to do this? Can anyone answer this?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By small fry on Monday, March 28, 2011 - 08:06 pm: Edit Post

It is greed Clueless, pure greed. When I was a child, there was a standpipe where we all used to go for water. The pipe was on the roadside, clearly on public property. Some years ago, a local property owner (born and bred) ran a new fence and enclosed the little piece of land where the pipe was located. To this day, it blows my mind when I try to understand the mentality. This person would be considered wealthy by local standards and yet saw it necessary to capture just a couple feet of real estate.

Considering the nature of parochial politics, it is no surprise that the Parish Council would allow this to happen. Nuff said.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Native on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 10:36 pm: Edit Post

I am from Frenchman butI have been living in New York for many years. As a child I had friends at Ballards Well (Great Bay)and we used to play in my friends family yard and drank the water from the stand pipe.The stand pipe was about four feet from the fence and now it is on the property. This I discovered when I came back a few years ago. I could not believe it ! If the Parish Council is irrelivant then the'people' have got to reclaim it and make sure the fence is put back at the right place.Bob Marley songs "Old Pirates, yes they rob I" and one says "Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Forwardup. on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 11:57 am: Edit Post

Sounds like the old boy run towns of the old south. Charming as a soap opera, backward as a model of community participation.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By One Love on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 09:44 am: Edit Post

I don't know what 'Forwardup' is trying to say but I do know that complacency does not eradicate corruption. I say get up, stand up for equal rights and justice for all people. Corruptin is taking over Jamaica and the passive people are contributing to it indirectly.One love, one heart, let's get together and do it right.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By fed-up on Friday, April 01, 2011 - 08:11 pm: Edit Post

Black River Parish Council need to wake-up and start doing their jobs right. They are too laid back and pretty soon all the roads will be just a one lane dilema.

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE SOONER OR LATER BEFORE ACCIDENTS AFTER ACCIDENTS START OCCURING.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rootsinclusive on Saturday, April 02, 2011 - 09:46 am: Edit Post

If they are spearheading the new sustainablity plan, this cannot be done asleep.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By small fry on Sunday, April 03, 2011 - 06:14 pm: Edit Post

To fed-up, there is no wake-up for the Parish Council {edited by TBNet}. I can recall bygone days when, depending on your political leaning, you could have asphalt in front of your house, while others on the same road had dirt in front of theirs. {edited by TBNet}