I'm guessing that there is a document which states who should provide what and the cost etc so this can be easily verified. At the same time no company will pay $300 million every 5 years to get what Freeport has gotten from Government. So i am sure this will now be in courts for years. This is most likely a tactic to try and force the families to sell up at a reduced price. Will see if it works, but as TImesup says it sends a strange message to potential investors, especially when Government agreed to extend the Port until 2054 only a short while ago.

Just say it will create a number of jobs, then all environmental issues go out the window.

And this is why Crime is so bad. How does it take so long to make any decision. They probably had to have a committee formed to decide if they need a committee to be formed to deal with this. But before they make the final decisions they need to have a big luncheon to celebrate how great everyone is. By now they should have interviewed everyone and got the evidence to be able to make a decision one way or the other

Just say its a gift and then no approval necessary up to the limit

I am all for everyone paying their share, however here it seems you are only punished if you pay your share. Why not go after those who do not pay to be licensed (i know plenty). Send the RBPF an RBDF to Rose island to check to make sure all those tour operators are licensed. Or even easier just search online and tie back the tour operates to those licensed. if they are not book them for an excursion and then arrest them and take the boat. All they do now is make it harder for the person who is legal to continue to be legal and don't go after those who are not.

I believe in a two state solution as per the 1967 borders, which is what the UN wants. You want a 1 state solution. My way has at least a chance of both sides living peacefully. Yours does not, but you will complain if the side you want to win isn't, until they do.

And release of all hostages or not?

This would mean a complete change in how the Government operates. They have no intention of going after those that don't pay and never have (they probably know quite a few of them). Instead make those who pay, pay more. Of course that will sometimes lead to more not paying, but the Government doesn't care.

The UN has not stipulated that all the land goes to Palestine, but that there is a two state solution. Which you have now said you don't agree with. Why do you not agree with the UN two state solution like all reasonable humans? Seems that you are just as bad as the extremist Israelis who want 1 nation that is Israel. Until the side that only wants their side to rule the whole land changes their mind, there will never be peace (unless of course the other side is completely wiped out, which no right thinking person would want).

From reading your reply it is apparent that you fall in the no Israel camp, rather then the two state camp where both can hopefully get along. You conveniently ignore all atrocities committed by Palestine or her allies and decide that only those committed by Israel matter. Not doubt this is because you don't agree with Israel. In 1947 the UN agreed the two state Solution. Israel declared independence and then was attacked by the Arab league. It was only a long time after (around the 1980s) when Israel had defeated the league 3 times that some of them agreed to a two state solution. Hamas still has not agreed to a two state solution, maybe its them you should hate as well?