Perhaps, the head table's most prominent critic at last Friday's Public consultation was the always unyielding Sister Yaya Marin Coleman, a grassroots community activist and sometimes television personality.
She has been following the progress of this project for several years now, and according to her research, the people from Port Loyola could be a lot more educated and informed about this proposed mega-development. Furthermore, since they are the closest to the project area at the Port of Belize, they will be the first ones to experience any of the negative impacts; the developers are also insisting that they will be the ones who will have the most access to employment connected to this project. On Friday, Yaya pointed out once again that according to her interactions with members of Port Loyola, residents still don't know much about this project, even though it was initially proposed several years ago:
