The following is a copy of a letter sent to the Editor of the Jamaica Observer regarding Blue Lagoon from Adrienne Joan Duperly:
Dear Editor,
Blue Lagoon demise and environmental concerns have been aired since JET stalwart Diana McCauley intervention in January 2011. Blue Lagoon's environmental issues have been brought to Prime Minister Golding`s attention in a letter written by Diana McCauley.
Since January, quarrels, indignities, name calling, mud slinging, blaming, finger pointing and issues of colour, wealth and poverty have stirred at Blue Lagoon. Negativity publicity has swamped poor Blue Lagoon shores and peoples as reports in your newspaper and others have been picked up by The Associated Press, Washington Post, World News et al.
I brought Blue Lagoon concerns to residents stakeholders in 2009. Since 2009-2010 letters, Blue Lagoon Restoration is becoming an eco- friendly, community driven eco sensitive marine heritage park protected because the people who live there care about their community and are trying to cooperate with one another - this after I proposed at Blue Lagoon to fisherfolk, rafters, crafters, corporate and resident stakeholders in 2009, 2010 and 2011 on several occasions, privately and publicly.
Following careful research, my restoration ideas spark renewed hope for beloved Blue Lagoon to be revalued and instated as the natural national treasure it really is.
Sadly, my 2009 letters were disregarded by your newspaper and others. Some Blue Lagoon area property owners, San San Association, environmental activists,and other governing bodies of 2009 heard me out, some have since agreed to help improve conditions at Blue Lagoon site.
Undeterred, I remain committed to Blue Lagoon Restoration. Following a 9 month community consultation, Blue Lagoon Restoration Concept came to life again. After invitation from Ontario International Development, on June 24, 2010, Blue Lagoon Restoration Concept was presented to the International Development Summer Congress 2010 , which was held in Canada. This Blue Lagoon concept document has since been published and you can access Blue Lagoon Restoration paper on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at:
http://ssrn.com/author=1530460
With JNHT on board, Blue lagoon stakeholders convened at Blue Lagoon Summit 2010 on November 20, 2010 in Portland and many follow http://www.bluelagoonjamaica.blogspot.com
Marc Goodman created http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODNsv7CsG9k
Sir, 60 years ago Norman Manley, Jamaica`s first Prime Minister sent his Blue Lagoon preservation note to Cabinet, earmarking Blue (Hole) Lagoon for eternal preservation (see link).
It is now 170 years since Adolphe Duperly hand tinted his lithograph of Blue Hole, with publication of his photographic journal of Jamaica's scenery, for the world to see at the Exhibition in Paris c.1840.
Now it is time for JNHT to rewrite Portland's environmental, social and economic history by presenting JNHT note to Cabinet This will help to ensure Blue Lagoon National Heritage Site Declaration is approved by Government of Jamaica, sanctioned by those who live, play, work or pray there. That is my wish, my prayer, my hope for Blue Lagoon and her residents.
We Jamaicans are eternally blessed, we live in a virtual paradise, we Jamaicans conquer world markets, we are globally celebrated artists, athletes, musicians, builders of nations and entrepreneurs of distinction. We Jamaicans know about God from childhood, some Jamaicans believe in a higher power, some believe they are a higher power. Not so, we have much the same DNA. We all want to be heard, we have a right to be heard, we all grow old, we all die sooner or later.
I invite Jamaicans from everywhere to visit Blue Lagoon, to discover what is happening in paradise while we are still alive to do so. It is so lovely there, go and see for yourselves.
Yours faithfully,
Adrienne Joan Duperly
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