Longtime residents of Bay Land and Bank Hall, St Michael, on Friday reacted with immense pride and celebration to the government’s plan to transform the childhood homes of national heroes Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Frank Worrell into permanent heritage sites.

Neighbours who spent decades living alongside the cricket maestros have widely praised the state-backed initiative, calling the preservation a deeply meaningful honour for the communities’ most famous sons.

They were responding to the announcement last Saturday at the Cricket Legends Museum by the Minister of Pan-African Affairs and Heritage, Trevor Prescod, during the launch of Heritage Month.