THE EDITOR, Sir:

AT AGE 23, Usain Bolt has achieved legendary status. Even if he never breaks another world record (which is not very likely), his name has been emblazoned on the pages of history.

It is said that we must honour great men during their lifetime and I am respectfully submitting that we start with Bolt's birthplace. The house should be refurbished and restored to its original state and, thereafter, proclaimed a national treasure. Mr and Mrs Bolt could be invited to relocate to their dream house - details to be worked out.

The Ministry of Tourism should now endeavour to have the schools he attended - Waldensia Primary and All-Age and William Knibb Memorial High School - likewise, refurbished, as well as the road he ran on to get to school and the school compound where he ran his first race.

All these locations should become tourist attractions where memorabilia depicting his career, from start to stardom, would be for sale and/or available for viewing. Athletic aficionados the world over would beat a path to Sherwood Content in the same way that poetry lovers have been trekking to the birthplace of Robert Burns, in Alloway, Scotland, 218 years after his death.

I am, etc.,

Howard Hamilton