goat islands

The controversy of allowing the Chinese to occupy the Goat Islands thus developing it into a logistics hub has caused uproar from the relevant institution in Jamaica and its citizens toward the Jamaican government. This has caused the asking of these questions what the environmental regulation issues are? What are the contemporary infrastructure development issues? Will this multi-billion dollar project cost more to the people of Jamaica than it benefits them and has the Jamaican government adequately informed the electorate about the situation. Jamaica has been long recognised as a very beautiful country, its natural resources have brought in millions of tourist over the last few years. Making it a very popular destination in the Caribbean its white sand beaches, breath taking views and beautiful landscape, However, with Jamaica being a third world country and its government aiming to transform it into a first world country by 2030, the goat islands are ideal examples of a beautiful landscape that is being threaten by development. The problem is that with the development of goat islands as a logistics hub, questions are being asked about how the air, the water and vegetation will be affected. And how will it affect the inhabitants of the islands. Having developed the goat islands the amount of sea traffic would result in the air being polluted due to the exhausts from the ships, the power plants, vehicles, machines etc. this is just assuming that the inhabitants were saved during the development of the logistic hub. As we all know that air is very fundamental to life, its breathers rely on it for their very survival, and however, air is harmless when it is polluted. And when air is polluted it can slowly kill a person and the same goes for animals which populate the islands. For example contaminated air can damage the respiratory systems of the birds and insects would have to relocate due to the bad quality of the air which would lead to it affecting