Beach Cocoyer - Haiti Observer Blog

After a bit of controversy early last year following the turning away of medical personnel from America, Beach Cocoyer is once again shrouded in controversy. In March 2013, residents from two villages in the third communal section of Petit- Goâve, Trouchouchou and Cocoyer, responded after the doctors, who were set to administer free care to the area on the site of the beach, were asked to pay for use of the beach. Reports were that the American delegation was assaulted.

Now this year, the highly turbulent night of August 17 shone another less than desirable light on the Beach when the staging of the first edition of the Festival Notre-Dame of Petit- Goâve, or Festi Cocoyer, ended with heavy gunfire, tear gas and violent beatings.

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