According to a post on Fiji Broadcasting Corporation website Fiji’s Tourism Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has announced by degree that:
Surfing areas around the country are now open to anyone who wants to use them under the new Regulation of Surfing Areas Decree. . . In the past some top surfing areas were restricted by hotels or resorts that had leases over the area and imposed payment and conditions for their use. The Decree cancels any existing instrument of title, including any lease or license – without payment of any compensation.
Sayed-Khaiyum hasn’t decided exactly when this new decree is going into effect so don’t start packing yet. We can say this–-having surfed Tavarua’s waves while the entire Fijian parliament was being held hostage at gunpoint for 58 days by George Speight, we don’t think Cloudbreak and Restaurants are in any danger of getting barged anytime soon.
In other Fiji news Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum (who is also reportedly “responsible for the Justice Ministry and Attorney General’s Office”) has also decreed that every person in Fiji who has a phone must provide a photograph of themselves along with all personal information or their phone service will be terminated.
As we’ve heard several times, “All that is happening on the other side of the country.”
[Link: FBC and Fiji Times via The Surfer’s Journal]
Booo…….
Now Paul will only get 50 clean barrels and 25 super deep close-outs- unless of course BB goes ahead and purchases Indo next fiscal year.
i am going to miss the overhead gun shots.
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