This topic is one of those that seem to come up every few months - it has been discussed here on Negril.com for well over a decade. For a bit more perspective about this article, the article was in the Gleaner back in August of 2011. The Smith Warner report that is being discussed was done in 2008 and is 4 year old. Lee Issa, who is being quoted, is the owner of Couples. He was promoting his beach proposal at the time and was trying to have the Sandals beach proposal rejected and his plan implemented instead. The Sandals proposal was discussed at length here last year:
http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...ighlight=jetty
While this article is not directly storm related, here is a blast from the past that I wrote for the Negril.com Negril Today page back on November 10th, 1998:
http://www.realnegril.com/beingees/nn101198.htm
