The House of Parliament, Gordon House, Duke Street, downtown Kingston. - Norman Grindley/Deputy Chief Photographer

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said last week that, should there be consensus, the new Parliament will be constructed on the current site on Duke Street.

But University of the West Indies Professor Aggrey Brown feels that there should be a new site - National Heroes Circle. "I would like to suggest that the siting of the Parliament building should be seen as an important dimension of a much larger national undertaking: that of building a national monument to our heritage and democracy," he said in a letter to the editor. "Our right to govern ourselves is after all what our National Heroes struggled for and it would be most fitting that the edifice symbolising the success of their struggle be located within the Park dedicated to their memory."

What's your view? The current Parliament building is inadequate. Where should the country construct the new building to undertake the nation's business?

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