Over five months after the promised October reopening, the Colgrain Swimming Pool remains closed, leaving swimmers and coaches baffled about when they can resume training at the facility as the swim season progresses.
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport had said that the pool’s closure in June was due to a damaged filter tank. In July, Permanent Secretary Alfred King had confirmed that a three-month contract was awarded to Fyffe Con-struction Company to replace the filter tanks and the deck and driveway would also have been upgraded. Also, King had said that the works would have been completed by October month-end or earlier.
After its failure to open at the set time, in January, King said the delays were because the “filter tank that is needed at the facility had to be specially produced because suppliers don’t shelve those.” He had then gauged that the tanks would