The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has embarked on transforming the unused area at the National Stadium into a multipurpose facility that will cater for the disciplines of football, volleyball, tennis and basketball.
The subject minister, Charles Ramson Jr., revealed recently that the football pitch is currently being laid to the northern side while a volleyball court would be built adjacent to the tarmac. A tennis court will be placed near to or on the tarmac along with a basketball court for which he had consultations with the federation and have begun purchasing equipment.
Ramson Jr., also stated that all of the additional facilities will be completed before year-end and the football facility will be equipped with lighting to enable uninterrupted day/night training
Plans are also in the pipeline for the construction of a cricket academy next year which will also enable training in any kind of weather.
“For next year, and it is something that is very important to me and must be done, is building the specialized cricket academy,” said Ramson Jr.
“The function of this is to be able to play cricket whether you have bad or good weather and we are working on the designs right now. We are pretty confident we will able to finalise the details coming out of the next budget and that will be completed within a few months so we can get that started.”
Ramson Jr., also pointed out that an important element for a successful sport academy is that it works in tandem with the sport association/federation, and therefore, he indicated he has had discussions with representatives of the International Cricket Council, Cricket West Indies, and the Guyana Cricket Board concerning the Academy, which he assured will be constructed.
