ROSE HALL, St James — Scores of enthusiastic customers streamed into the Whitter Village last Saturday for the opening of the Avalon Pharmacy.

Customers benefited from lots of give-aways, free health tips from several suppliers of pharmaceutical products; free check-ups from the resident medical doctor, services from the resident pharmacists, in a party atmosphere during which music blasted around the ground of the shopping complex.

Avalon Pharmacy, a subsidiary of subsidiary of the Moodie family group which includes the 40-year-old York Pharmacy, is the newest tenant of Whitter Village.

Clay Moodie, the managing director of Avalon Pharmacy was satisfied with the prospect that expanding the business to the city of Montego Bay offers.

” We are very excited, we think Montego Bay is a growing city in the tourism belt of Jamaica and we believe we have a tremendous opportunity down here to expand our business from Kingston,”he said.

Angella Whitter, proprietor of the Whitter Village, who operates the shopping centre along with her husband, land baron Joe, noted that the Jamaican village was constructed out of the need ” to provide an additional experience for Montegonians to come and enjoy themselves”.

“The pharmacy being opened today is a wonderful thing because the Moodies are Kingstonians and they have come to Montego Bay and invested here, ” she said adding that 80 percent of the 92 shops are now occupied.