Angry at naming of marina

[MdmeX]

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Angry at naming of marina
published: Wednesday | January 24, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody xVlvo="true">



The Editor, Sir:

I am from Port Antonio, and I am angry that the new marina has been given the name of The <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Errol </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Flynn</SPAN> Marina. It even has his picture. That I believe is a slap in the face to Port Antonians, our national heroes, and Jamaicans on a whole. What an insult! Who is Errol Flynn to Jamaica and Port Antonio? Nobody.

A wealthy American actor who has bought up a good portion of eastern Portland's farming and coastal <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">land</SPAN>, keeping Portland and its young people from expanding into the agriculture arena. He has done nothing for <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN>, and definitely has done nothing for Port Antonio.

For his name to be put on our national wharf is an offensive, disgraceful and a contemptible act. The people of <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Port </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Antonio</SPAN> did not even have a part in namin

[Muadib]

RE: Angry at naming of marina

I guess it all depends on who owns the Marina and who is providing the cash.

The Govt has long disgraced the efforts of our National Heroes and the brand of Jamaicaanyway far worse than any naming of a Marina.

[Mosiah]

RE: Angry at naming of marina

<DIV>Is is also said that Errol Flynn was nothing but a...well...a waif, swashbuckling his way through the women of the town. Even more has been said, but...that's for another time.</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>On the other hand, some credit him for developing tourism in that area, in particular, rafting on the Rio Grande.</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>So, despite what he might have done for tourism, I believe we could name the marina after a local person.</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV>

[MdmeX]

RE: Angry at naming of marina

I doubt that it was Flynn who developed tourism in the Parish, evn though he contributed as he owned the large Navy Island close by, and for years there was weekly horse racing in the district of Boston (few miles out of Port Antonio). But as a Portlander, the darn Marina could have been named after a local person.

UTTER RUBBISH!!

As tothe antics ofhis widow Patrice Wymore Flynn(Tant)

Sass - whey yuh think bout this?