I am never in Negril for New Year's Eve, but I have a friend who always is and we are both licensed fireworks manufacturers. We've spoken with Alfred several times about the NYE fireworks he has done on the Negril beach in prior years. The cost of the fireworks is too much for him to handle alone, and he has never been successful in getting other businesses to contribute. That's why there were not fireworks last year. In case you aren't aware, fireworks events of that size run several thousand dollars.

I was wondering whether there are enough willing boardies to actually help support the fireworks display. I'm thinking along the lines of a $100. contribution. This is in line with what many municipal displays collect for "VIP seating". Maybe Alfred could do something special to reward his sponsors, such as have T-shirts made up and each person to send that amount gets a T-shirt, and maybe free drinks or something to anyone wearing the T-shirt NYE.

Note that this is just me sounding people out an idea, this has not yet been proposed to Alfred and won't be unless I think I have a shot of making it happen. And I'm doing this just because in general I'm in favor of fireworks. If 20 or more people say they'd kick in the money, then I'd attempt to move forward with it. It may be too late for this year in any event.