The City Growth Company (UDC) will host its annual New Yr’s Eve Fireworks Competition on December 31, beneath the theme ‘Life, Love and Concord’, as Jamaica bids farewell to 2024 and welcomes 2025.
The pageant is slated for the Kingston Waterfront, Ocho Rios Bay Seaside in St. Ann, and the most recent addition to the record of areas – Concord Seaside Park in Montego Bay, St. James, starting 12 midday.
Normal Supervisor of the UDC, Robert Honeyghan, instructed JIS Information that ease of entry for all Jamaicans is a key function of the pageant’s staging this 12 months.
“By doing it in these three particular areas, what you find yourself with is that the typical Jamaican is rarely actually greater than an hour away from a significant fireworks occasion within the nation. That improves accessibility and makes it handy for households to entry [this spectacle] wherever they’re,” he identified.
Mr. Honeyghan mentioned the decades-old pageant guarantees to be enjoyable for your entire household, with a craft village, kiddies play space with numerous rides, and a slate of different actions, together with a avenue social gathering and stage present later within the evening that includes a line-up of musical acts.
“Fireworks Competition 2024, after all, goes to be larger and higher than Fireworks Competition 2023, and all of the years earlier than. The significance of the Fireworks Competition to the Jamaican expertise goes again a few years… fairly a couple of many years. It’s a household enjoyable day. It’s not a night-time occasion solely; it begins within the day. The entire present is geared in direction of family-friendly leisure,” he defined.
Mr. Honeyghan credited the pageant’s endurance to its significance as a convention for generations of Jamaicans, in addition to an financial alternative for native small companies.
“It’s a significant a part of what Jamaicans sit up for. Our remit in communities throughout Jamaica spans every part from, after all, the development of the bodily infrastructure, but additionally enabling companies and enterprise house owners. Most of the parks that we function and run throughout the UDC have a small-business element. Small-business folks can reap the benefits of alternatives there,” Mr. Honeyghan identified.
All three pageant areas could have safe parking services to be used by attendees. In Ocho Rios, basic parking will probably be offered on the Ocean Village Purchasing Centre, with extra preparations on the Buckfield Playfield, Shaw Park and Turtle River Park.
In Montego Bay, parking will probably be accessible at services reverse Concord Seaside Park, in addition to at Mount Alvernia Excessive Faculty and Cornwall Faculty.
For the occasion on the waterfront in downtown Kingston, parking will probably be facilitated on the Craft Market carpark, Harbour Avenue carpark, West Avenue carpark, Temple Lane carpark and the Jamaica Customs Company (JCA) carpark. A ‘park-and-ride’ shuttle service may also be accessible.
“You [will] have the [opportunity] to park at Nationwide Heroes Park, experience the bus right down to the waterfront, benefit from the festivities and get on the bus and experience again to the Park,” Mr. Honeyghan knowledgeable.
The UDC Fireworks Competition is being held beneath the auspices of the Ministry of Financial Progress and Job Creation in partnership with the Jamaica Social Funding Fund (JSIF); Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF); Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ); Nationwide Strong Waste Administration Authority (NSWMA); Nationwide Works Company (NWA); Tradition, Well being, Arts, Sports activities and Training (CHASE) Fund; Nationwide Housing Belief (NHT); Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Company (KSAMC); GraceKennedy Group; Digicel; PanJam Group; Worthy Park Property, and the Jamaica Public Service Firm (JPS).
“Our sponsors actually got here on board in an enormous manner, and so they’re enabling the complete society to have the unique and inclusive expertise that the Fireworks Competition brings. There’s nothing extra gratifying in my thoughts and extra pleasing for us than to essentially observe the Fireworks Competition as a result of it brings collectively Jamaicans throughout all generations, throughout all backgrounds, each stroll of life,” Mr. Honeyghan mentioned.
