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"We are pleased with the outcome. If you speak to the restaurateur they will tell you the same thing. The event was well supported; their business did well. We had taken it a notch higher than the initial [December 2004] launch and we have certainly improved the product," said Angela Richard, executive assistant to the TDPCo. director.

GASTRONOMIC FEAST

The organisers closed off a portion of Knutsford Boulevard, between Barbados Avenue and Trinidad Terrace, transforming the pedestrian area and sidewalks and piazza into temporary outdoors cafés and booths displaying authentic Jamaican products positioned in the street.

But, as patrons, including overseas guests from the nearby hotels, dined at the cafés or viewed the displays, waste water from an overflow sewage further up Knutsford Boulevard streamed down street before spreading out at the lower intersection.

Another issue to be resolved in New Kingston is the lack of public sanitary
conveniences for the nightly entertainment crowd.

The promenade along the Pan Caribbean building, opposite the nightclubs, bears the stain and odour of liquid excretes. Clearly, Knutsford Boulevard, a bustle of business activities by day and a pulsating nightlife, the site of 'Knutsford Nights' that is aimed at
fostering tourism, is in dire need of adequate public sanitary conveniences.

­ Claude Wilson

Undeterred by the waste water streaming down Knutsford Boulevard, officials of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), organiser of Kingston's new tourism product, 'Knutsford Nights', is declaring the second staging of the event a tremendous success.