The Editor, Sir:

Whenever I think of taking the entire family out to have and enjoy fun activities, my options are very limited. In my days, not so long ago, we used to enjoy the facility of the Hope Botanical Garden, Zoo and Coney Island in Kingston. Then there was Coney Park in St Catherine.

Incomplete facilities

The Portmore Plaza in Portmore, St Catherine, in its glory days, used to offer a skating rink and cinema. The Guardsman Serenity Park in St Catherine offers a small replica of Hope Zoo. Water World in Negril and Dolphin Cove in St Ann are great, but, sad to say, each of these places, by themselves, are incomplete.

What we need is to create a facility that caters for the entire family here in Jamaica. What we need is an attraction/theme park that draws from the concept of all the above and roll it into one grand family fun facility. Waterslides for kids and adults, skating rink, zoo (with animal petting), maze, rides of all sorts, museum, movie complex, family entertainment, nanny village for kids, spa, gym, karaoke, in short, a Jamaican Disneyland.

Most of the facilities, already built here in Jamaica, are built with tourists in mind. Well, this "family fun facility" should have Jamaican people in mind and its purpose is to build family unity and to create memorable memories for the entire family. The facility would create employment, generate some amount of revenue for the country and display environmental awareness by the use of solar power, reed beds for sewage treatment and more, all which could be used as learning tools for students of all ages and levels of learning, from primary to tertiary.

I am, etc.,

KEASHIA RHODEN-

BATCHELOR

keamarjo@yahoo.com