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BARS, RESTAURANTS, DISCOTHÈQUES, NAVIGATION: “WE MUST DO THINGS BY STEPS”
The prefect Sylvie Feucher published the decree stipulating the rules of deconfinement in Saint-Barthélemy. It’s good for restaurants and bars, not nightclubs or boating at the moment. "I have to take some precautions," she explains.
The long-awaited prefectural decree is signed and published. It details the activities that are authorized to resume as of Wednesday, May 13, and those that are not. With some differences compared to the national level, starting with bars and restaurants, which will be able to welcome their customers tomorrow, after a false start on Monday. "But beware, what I saw on Monday evening, I did not like it at all," warns Sylvie Feucher, prefect of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth. "I have received lots of photos of certain establishments in Saint-Barthélemy, which have been opened without any respect for the barrier measures. If people don't do the right thing, I will take administrative shutdown measures. A Ministry of Labor file must be issued for these establishments, but there are already common sense measures to take. If you send me photos, it's good because it offends. I am for the resumption of activity, but if we do not adopt the right actions now, what will we do when the borders are reopened? "
The only nightclubs that will be banned from the public even from May 13, discos, "for fairly obvious reasons. »Commercial nautical activities (scuba diving, jet-skiing, day-charter boat, etc.) will not be allowed to resume their activity either.
Boating prohibited
For the general public, despite the insistence of President Magras, boating remains prohibited for the moment. "Obviously, 5 miles from the coast is not far. But we do not have the capacity to monitor each boat, and to ensure that a boat does not seek people on the islands around to bring it back to Saint-Barthélemy. For pleasure boating, we will see how the situation is evolving in Saint-Martin and Sint-Maarten. I am prefect of the Northern Islands, I cannot consider only Saint-Barthélemy, without Saint-Martin and Sint-Maarten nearby. These rules could be relaxed in a fortnight, or even a week. It takes patience, you can't do it all at once. "
On the other hand, nautical activities such as surfing, windsurfing or kiting, without motors, are authorized. "Only in the context of individual practice, not in a commercial setting," says Sylvie Feucher.
These rules will be difficult for some to accept, but the state representative does not want to go from black to white all at once. "We are not in the idea of making it last fifteen years," reassures the prefect. Quite surprised to see that after weeks of receiving requests from all sides for rigor on containment, we asked him for an express deconfinement. "I want to be able to monitor, branch by branch, how it is going. We have to do things gradually, create an airlock. Flexibilities can happen quickly, but you have to do one thing after the other. "Because in the event of deconfinement failure, a reconfinement is not excluded. “It is completely imaginable. We'll have to look into it if we have five or six cases of Covid-19 at once. But I don't want to be reconfined, so you have to do it right. "