CAMILLE McEACH­NIE

Al­though Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley eased the re­stric­tion on go­ing to beach­es over the week­end, few turned up on To­ba­go beach­es.

There was an ex­pec­ta­tion that large crowds would flock to have a sea bath af­ter weeks of the no-beach ban in place to pre­vent the spread of COVID-19.

Be­fore the PM’s an­nounce­ment at last Sat­ur­day's me­dia brief­ing, To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber's chair­man Mar­tin George, as well as Crown Point Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion vice-pres­i­dent Shirley Cooke, had called for the re­open­ing of the is­land's beach­es as a first step to re­open­ing the econ­o­my.

When the beach­es were first re­opened on June 22nd, hun­dreds turned up, re­sult­ing in their clo­sure not long af­ter.