TRELAWNY, JAMAICA: A hidden treasure! Bunker’s Hill looks to ‘X-perience’ attraction for jobs .....Clover Gordon, a resident of Adelphi, St James, who operates the attraction, describes the start-up of the project as "a divine intervention".

MARK CUMMINGS Editor-at-Large Western Bureau cummings@jamaicaobserver.com  Thursday, June 11, 2015 

BUNKER'S HILL, Trelawny

Visitors to the Bunker’s Hill Cultural X-perience and River
 Tour enjoy the waterfalls at the attraction.

THE venture is yet to be completed, but already Bunker's Hill residents are upbeat about the benefits to be derived from the community's newest and unique attraction -- the Bunker's Hill Cultural X-perience and River Tour.

The attraction which lies close to the Bunker's Hill/Dromilly border in Trelawny, features a botanical garden, cascading waterfalls and a huge cave, believed to be used as a hideout by chief of the Maroons Cudjoe, and his followers in the 18th century.

An office, a gift shop, a reception area, and a kitchen, which serves up mouth-watering dishes and delicious juices, are also located on the lush property.

Clover Gordon, a resident of Adelphi, St James, who operates the attraction, describes the start-up of the project as "a divine intervention".

"I didn't even know Bunker's Hill, but after three days of fasting in 2012 I was told through divine intervention that 'what I have to give you now is not limited to Jamaica, but it is for the world'. Then I was told 'Vivienne rivers'. So I went in search of all the Viviennes I know, and then I remembered that the name of my driver's girlfriend is Vivienne, and I remembered too that she said that her mother has a property with a river in Bunker's Hill," Gordon told the Jamaica Observer West.

(R) Bunker’s Hill resident Charles McKenzie
 enjoys a bowl of soup at the community’s
 newest attraction. (L) GRAY… the
 attraction is nice, but the roads leading to
 it are terrible.

"The voice also said build thatch roof, look about traditional Jamaican food, you are going to get tourists, no alcoholic beverage must be served where you are, and everything must be natural, even the food... so I am going by that order," Gordon added.

Gordon said after making contact with Viviene, she and her husband, Obrian, visited the property and were "very impressed with its potential".

Work began on the site a year later.

Since then, the attraction has welcomed hundreds of visitors.

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