Rosemary Parkinson, Contributor
Left: Bajan top model Sara Collins having lunch at Cafe Luna with her 'grans'. Right: Fruits de Mer - fresh local fish and shrimp was pretty good. - PHOTOS BY ROSEMARY PARKINSON
I GOT A very disturbing email the other day about St. Elizabeth. That beautiful, quiet, serene, happy piece of land made especially for the discerning. The kind of parish you want to keep untouched so there's a place to hide away quietly and refresh yourself from the rigours of life itself.
Something called a sports park is about to be constructed. Now, as I hear it, at first it was called a stadium. When concerned citizens voiced opinion, it quietly disappeared for a while returning with a vengeance as a sports park. My interest was piqued.
PLANS
I was in Barbados so I sent a friend to have a look at the so-called plans. Let me tell you - I feel for St. Elizabeth. This is not a little sports park to enable youngsters of the area to begin charting a path to becoming track and field, football, cricket or swimming stars with proper coaches and even a boarding establishment for serious training. This looks to me like a full-fledged, enormous stadium.
I am told the idea is to bring sports tourism to the parish! To attract high-end money-disbursing-stars to St. Elizabeth, arguing that Barbados has shown that sports tourism works.
