A top Bermuda hotel has been warned to take signs down warning the public that part of a beach is off limits.

Elbow Beach hotel was publicly told by veteran UBP MP Quinton Edness that they were running into trouble by erecting notices telling the public that the beach was out of bounds. He said anyone in Bermuda had the right to roam right along the beach in front of the hotel and up to the beachfront buildings themselves.

Edness slams `off-limits' beach His words in the House of Assembly were echoed by other MPs, who called for other Bermuda beaches that had been designated private in the past, to be returned to the people.

Mr. Edness said there ought to be a law that required accessibility to beaches for all people.

He said the MPs in the Paget area should tell Elbow Beach that the signs -- which he said inform the public that the beach to the east is private for hotel guests only -- were not on.

"Somebody should tell the operators of Elbow Beach they should not do that.

Bermudians respect tourists on the beach -- they do not need to put up signs, if they do they are going to get into trouble.'' He explained that in Bermuda you can have access to the beach as far inland as the high water mark -- which at Elbow Beach is at the point where the buildings are.

"The public of Bermuda can go wherever they want on that beach and roam as long as they are within the high water mark.''