Last night during the news, Minister Godwin Hulse, who's chairing a cabinet Subcommittee on investment called us to outline the position with Norwegian Cruise Line and the discussion of a cruise port on Crawl Caye near Placencia. He re-iterated that to us in person today.
Hon. Godwin Hulse - Chair of Cabinet Subcommittee on Investment
"All the departments responsible for of government fisheries, environment, tourism met to lay to the potential investor what our parameters are and see if those are acceptable to them and we go from there so at this stage there is nothing to be jumping up and down. The potential investor is going to go back to see if he can meet and come back to us with a proposal and we go from there. That proposal then will be subject of an EIA and all the rest of parameters that are required before the investment can be made and we move forward. All investments must first of all be economically and sociably acceptable and must be legally doable. Two, it must bring some revenue to the Government. Tthree, it must be some foreign exchange into the country. Four, it must bring some absolutely meaningful jobs and I don't mean the little low level jobs. Five, it must be environmentally sustainable or improve the environment and if those criteria are met we are going to go."
As for an MOU which has been drafted, Hulse told us that is a quote, "non-starter" because they "are not at that stage at all."
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