Nassau, The Bahamas – Hundreds of Bahamians gathered at the new Saunders Beach to celebrate Easter Weekend and enjoy the improvements to the beach environment facilities, including the new civic-friendly town planning layout.
Native beach goers were not shy in expressing their approval of the Government’s decision to upgrade the popular holiday beach site. They look forward to witnessing phase two of the development.
“Well, we’re out on the beach enjoying the scenery and loving the new Saunders Beach and enjoying the scenery with the family,” said Phenise Metterick, from Oakes Field in New Providence.
“Friday we went to church, Saturday we rested and Sunday we went to church again and now today we are out on the beach. Today, we are just relaxing. I love the benches and it’s changed a lot. It’s much nicer. I’d love to see the trees bloom some more so we’ll have some more shade out here. I’ve noticed the trash bins and stuff and I don’t see much garbage floating around the place. People are keeping it clean and that’s good. It’s a plus. The sand doesn’t go anywhere. It’s always here.”
Public opinion positively extended a range from young to old, male to female, and attracted an agreement from all aspects of socio-economic representation.
“I’m enjoying my Easter holiday on the beach. [Saunders Beach] is wonderful and we like the improvement. It’s beautiful,” said Annamae Fernander.
“Well, on Good Friday we went to church and right now today which is Easter Monday we also now spending it together as a family on the beach, which is Saunders Beach. When we leave from here, we are going to have a family brunch.”
Sports Radio Host Troy Feast from 103.5 sat on a bench with his entire family just to enjoy the sea vista.
“Well, it’s a nice fun-filled day at the beach to top it off. I spent the whole weekend listening to Carifta games, listening to The Bahamas beat up on Jamaica. The Bahamas dominated Jamaica in all of the sprints, but unfortunately Jamaica beat us in all of the relays last night. As far as the individual races go, we dominated them in all the sprints and tonight we are going to beat them in all the 4X4’s tonight,” said Mr. Feast.
“As far as the beach, I feel as though more signage needs to be on the beach. I think they have basically restructured everything properly. They need one of those machines they got on Paradise Island they use to clean all of this debris and all of this stuff out of the sand. I think they need to consider that.
They might not be able to do it everyday like how Atlantis does. If they could do it, once or twice a month or something like that and make it more scenic, I guess. But, as far as that, the beach is cool. Just put up signs that say ‘no nudity’ because there are kids out here and this is not a nude beach.”
By Gena Gibbs
BAHAMAS INFORMATION SERVICES
