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Opposition Spokesman on Industry Anthony Hylton
Opposition Spokesman on Industry Anthony Hylton, while welcoming the development of the Caymanas Special Economic Zone, believes a comprehensive study is needed to determine optimal use of the country's lands.
His comments follow questions about prime agricultural land under cane cultivation being repurposed for commercial use.
Mr Hylton described sugar as a sunset industry while noting that logistics is a rapidly increasing sector.
"What we would have done, and what we intend to do when we form government, is ... a proper spatial planning... because we're going to have to decide which of the lands we utilise for what purposes," he told Radio Jamaica News.
He asserted, however, that the country "can't be frozen in time," and therefore "whatever we inherited as agriculture remains as agriculture," but added that "the choices we make have to be data-driven and the benefits have to be clear."
Specifically regarding the Caymanas Special Economic Zone, he declared that the use of the long established sugar cane lands for this new purpose was "the better choice... having looked at it, myself, many years ago... because of our proximity to the ports and the support for a logistics operation."
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