The Caribbean Festival Park

The UPP is committed to its undertaking to establish a Caribbean theme park in the Perry Bay/Donavan’s foreshore area.

The Caribbean Festival Park is conceived as a permanent year ‘round showcase for the mosaic of cultures that our communities from other lands have brought to Antigua & Barbuda.

Persons from other Caribbean countries who have made Antigua & Barbuda their home will have a central role in the Caribbean Festival Park.

The cuisine, music, art, craft, song and dance of our Caribbean sisters and brothers, will be offered at the Caribbean Festival Park, together with Antigua and Barbuda’s cultural heritage.

The Caribbean Festival Park is conceived as a tourist mecca that will attract regional visitors, as well as tourists from around the world. This will make it a major integrated resort, recreational, entertainment and shopping complex that will create hundreds of jobs in construction and in full-time operation.

The project covers approximately 18 acres of prime waterfront land owned by the Government, and will stretch from the Multi-Purpose Centre to Keeling Point.

A part of the Perry Bay Development is the design and construction of a Fisheries
Complex. It is for fishermen to secure boats in times of hurricanes; storage of equipment and maintenance; and for families of fishermen to sell traditional sea foods. Approximately three acres of land is allocated to the Fisheries Complex.

The Grays-Green Community lies in proximity to the site of the Caribbean Festival Park. It is therefore appropriate to consider the opportunity for residents to be a source of labour, skills, entertainment, small business operators, security and management, etc.

The Board of Directors of Caribbean Festival Park selected OBM International from among local and regional consultants to prepare the Master Plan for the Caribbean theme park.

The Caribbean Festival Park Master Plan includes:

• Caribbean shops and restaurants
• A museum to depict skills and traditions of national and regional culture
• Commercial section for banking, body care, offices, pharmacy, other services
• Hotel, conference centre, marina
• A performing arts theatre
• A Fisheries Complex to include dry dock for sheltering boats in times of storm; work shops and units for storage of equipment; specially designed area
  for sale of fish delicacies by fisher folk.