Dear Editor,
We cannot be throwing around statues like confetti. Not only are they too expensive, too many of them devalue the honour.
The truth is that Usain Bolt is the only one deserving of a statue. But if we must include everyone, or honour team effort, let us have two statues that represent the male athletes and the female athletes. That would be less expensive and perhaps fairer to all.
And let us find top-class sculptors and not embarrass ourselves with a repetition of statues like the mould-poured monstrosity at Independence Park or the Frankenstein’s monster of Nethersole in downtown Kingston. Wint at the stadium was well done, and so was the cricketer at the entrance to Barrington Watson’s place on Hope Road. If we don’t have the best, let us find them in Africa and Haiti.
Still, statues for everybody just makes no sense!
Orville Brown
Bronx, NY, USA
thewriter.brown@gmail.com
We cannot be throwing around statues like confetti. Not only are they too expensive, too many of them devalue the honour.
The truth is that Usain Bolt is the only one deserving of a statue. But if we must include everyone, or honour team effort, let us have two statues that represent the male athletes and the female athletes. That would be less expensive and perhaps fairer to all.
And let us find top-class sculptors and not embarrass ourselves with a repetition of statues like the mould-poured monstrosity at Independence Park or the Frankenstein’s monster of Nethersole in downtown Kingston. Wint at the stadium was well done, and so was the cricketer at the entrance to Barrington Watson’s place on Hope Road. If we don’t have the best, let us find them in Africa and Haiti.
Still, statues for everybody just makes no sense!
Orville Brown
Bronx, NY, USA
thewriter.brown@gmail.com