THERE IS NO NEED for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the building of the Hyatt Hotel in Bay Street, St Michael.
That is according to Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, who made the disclosure that he had granted planning permissions for the 15-storey hotel at a meeting of his St Michael South branch at Bay Primary School Sunday night.
“The Chief Town Planner, who has the sole responsibility under the Town And Country Planning Act to determine whether or not there should be an Environmental Impact Assessment, an assessment done as to the impact on the environment that the hotel is likely to cause or to bring, he has determined that that is not necessary.
“Therefore, we are proceeding. So I hope that that debate will peter out, and if it doesn’t peter out, that’s a matter for the debaters,” Stuart said. (YB)
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