Jamaican hotelier offers Sha’carri Richardson one-week stay
Caribbean Life, AUG. 27-SEPT. 2, 2021 35
By Nelson A. King
The owner and managing
director of Takuma Boutique
Hotel in Mt. Zion, Montego
Bay, Jamaica, Delroy Allen has
announced that he is extending
a complimentary one-week,
all-inclusive vacation stay at his
property for tough-talking US
sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson,
according to Jamaican publicist
Anthony Turner.
“If Sha’Carri takes up the
offer, it would put her on a
track for spiritual and emotional
renewal, as she would rise
and shine each morning to the
sounds and scents of nature in
the quiet, cool hills of Mount
Zion with a breathtaking view of
the Caribbean Sea hundreds of
feet below” Allen said.
Richardson was trounced by
Jamaican sprint queens Elaine
Thompson-Herah, who posted
the second fastest time ever
(10.54 sec.), compatriot Shelly-
Ann Fraser-Pryce, who clocked
10.73 sec., and Shericka Jackson
(10.76 sec.) in the 100m
dash at the Prefontaine Classic
Diamond League meeting in
Eugene, Oregon on Saturday.
Richardson was defiant,
despite finishing a disappointing
ninth with a time of 11.14 sec.
In a post-event trackside
interview on NBC TV, Richardson
described her performance
as “a great return back to the
sport.”
Allen, a Jamaican, based in
Boston, Mass. is a coach and
former top-ranked tennis player
from Mount Zion, nearby Rose
Hall, in St. James.
The hotelier, philanthropist
and tennis pro said he made
the offer as he felt it was the
Christian-like and benevolent
thing to do, despite Sha’Carri’s
disparaging remarks towards
Jamaican athletes.
“As a sportsman, I have been
watching recent developments
with Sha’Carri and, despite her
ferocious pronouncements, I
see her as a talented but troubled
athlete in deep pain,” said
the tennis pro who polished
his skills as a youngster on the
courts at the Half Moon Resort
in Montego Bay.
The Takuma Boutique Hotel
takes its name from Allen’s
great, great grandfather, Takuma,
a prominent and feared
spiritual healer who is alleged
to have orchestrated the demise
of Annie Palmer at the nearby
Rose Hall Great House, Turner
said.
Sha’Carri Richardson of the U.S. celebrates after winning the 200m Women at the Ostrava
Golden Spike, Municipal Stadium, Ostrava, Czech Republic on May 19, 2021. REUTERS/David
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