Let's have debate on use of public lands
Published:Thursday | April 5, 2018 | 12:00 AM
The Editor, Sir:
I read the Editorial: "Bernard Lodge city requires robust debate" (The Gleaner, April 2) with a very serious disposition. I share deeply the opposition to the continued use of prime agricultural lands for housing schemes. It has been going on for too long and has now become a practice.
As I digested the issue, I was hoping to hear more from the political leadership. I thought also about Albion in St Thomas one of the most productive agricultural areas in St Thomas - and I murmured to myself: 'Will there be a Morant city?'
We must produce or perish. I have no opposition to the building of homes, but there must be reason in all of this. We must understand that it is agriculture, influenced by science and technology, that can lift this country into new levels of national development.
I was pleased to see the follow-up to the Editorial: "Transparency needed on Bernard Lodge" (The Gleaner, April 5) - the call to think the project through, the state of the economy and living conditions and, most importantly, the expressions by the new minister of agriculture regarding his observations in more developed countries. There is the need for a wider public debate on the use of public lands.
Louis E.A. Moyston, PhD