St Thomas fishermen won’t lay like ‘lambs to the slaughter’
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One of the strongest pillars of the coastal economy in St Thomas is fishing. But what happens when fishermen can no longer find safe harbour? That is the conundrum facing fishermen at Prospect Public Beach in St Thomas. According to them, they have been informed that the sliver of land adjacent to the once-popular bathing beach, which they use to dock their boats, has now been sold. “The land sell,” **Roy explained. “Them sell out the fishing beach. It buy by private sector or private people.”