This Friday morning, the Pointe-à-Pître canal was closed by a dam organized by the archipelago’s fishermen who are demanding action against the rise in fuel prices. An action that forbids anyone who wanted to use the “Festi Beach Mizik” to go there and experience Marie-Galante a tourist revival after months of crisis
FJO. with Ch. Théophile • Published June 3, 2022 at 11:14 am, updated June 3, 2022 at 12:13 pm
Travelers stuck in this ferry terminal without really knowing why, without really knowing what they are actually waiting for.
They had almost all taken their tickets from shipping companies to go to Marie-Galante that weekend.
The island, deprived of its traditional Terre de Blues festival due to organizational difficulties related to the health situation, planned to make itself attractive for this Pentecost weekend despite everything.
With the help of the Tourist Office, the organizers banked on a Festi Beach Mizik that would offer visitors a good time without being on the scale of Terre de Blues.
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But no one expected the fishermen to be angry. They are concerned about the price of fuel and nothing else is their top concern.
Much to the chagrin of the shipping companies.
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On this Friday morning, in this ferry terminal in Pointe-à-Pître, where Marie-Galantais headed home mingle with aspiring festival-goers from everywhere, potential travelers to Dominica or Martinique, nobody really wants to get angry.
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Everyone just wanted to hope that a solution would be found quickly and who knows that they could take a boat at noon so that nothing was lost.
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But that assumes that the fishermen are happy with their negotiations, that the shipping companies are willing to organize new rotations without forcing the unfortunate early travelers to buy new tickets …
And we’re not even talking about those who are simultaneously suffering from the situation on Marie-Galantai’s side: car rental companies, hoteliers or owners of holiday homes or seasonal rentals, restaurateurs, artisans and even travelers’ parents. ..
Suffice it to say that the fishermen’s movement will have a major weight in Marie-Galante’s balance of interests.