Tweet
A suggestion for Dr Davies
TAMARA SCOTT WILLIAMS
Sunday, September 29, 2013 19 Comments
Print this page Email A Friend!
An old Railway Company map showing all stations and communities along rail corridors and spurs.
MINISTER of transport, works and housing, Dr Omar Davies, has urged environmentalists and members of the public who have objected to the US$1.5-billion proposed port and industrial park (logistics hub) development of Goat Islands to offer solutions for creating jobs for Jamaicans.
The future of Jamaica depends on the availability of cheap electrical power, industrial development and the ability to move goods and people easily across the island. With the understanding that the logistics hub may be our very last opportunity to solve the unemployment, balance of payment and crime problems in one fell swoop, I offer the following suggestion.
This is not a new idea, but one which was proposed as far back as 2008, having to do with a five-year plan which would see to its fruition the development of Port Esquivel and its environs as a transshipment freezone hub and which would resuscitate the railway and re-establish it as the commuter and industrial transportation corridor of Jamaica.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...avies_15146908
TAMARA SCOTT WILLIAMS
Sunday, September 29, 2013 19 Comments
Print this page Email A Friend!
An old Railway Company map showing all stations and communities along rail corridors and spurs.
MINISTER of transport, works and housing, Dr Omar Davies, has urged environmentalists and members of the public who have objected to the US$1.5-billion proposed port and industrial park (logistics hub) development of Goat Islands to offer solutions for creating jobs for Jamaicans.
The future of Jamaica depends on the availability of cheap electrical power, industrial development and the ability to move goods and people easily across the island. With the understanding that the logistics hub may be our very last opportunity to solve the unemployment, balance of payment and crime problems in one fell swoop, I offer the following suggestion.
This is not a new idea, but one which was proposed as far back as 2008, having to do with a five-year plan which would see to its fruition the development of Port Esquivel and its environs as a transshipment freezone hub and which would resuscitate the railway and re-establish it as the commuter and industrial transportation corridor of Jamaica.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...avies_15146908