One year after the rehabilitation promise MSC B/ball Court continues to fall apart

Dec 17, 2009 Sports

This is what the MSC Basketball Court and bleachers (left) looked like a year ago. Sadly, they are still in the same condition today after a rehabilitation promise was made last year at a MSC Press Conference.

By Edison Jefford
The existence of Santa Clause is steeped in mythology but around this time last year there were some relevance given to the benevolence of the mystical character with a promise to develop the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Court.
It has been a year since the Executive of the MSC met with the media to tell them that the Basketball Court will receive handsome makeovers compliment of strenuous fund raising efforts also geared at addressing other rehabilitation.
Kaieteur Sport visited the facility on Tuesday and nothing had improved from when those responsible for its management made their pitch.
It is a sad reality in sport administration, but it is true: rhetoric takes precedence over action.
The Club’s hierarchy had invited the media to dispel claims that there general facility can no longer host the Final of the Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament which migrated to the National Stadium after 18 years in Linden.
The management of the MSC indicated then that lots of work had gone into making most out of what exist, in terms of infrastructure, at the facility and more will be done in future to further improve the entire historic Sports Club.
The basketball court was not exempted from that developmental plan, but the gesture was not executed within the time allotted, which was the past 11 months. No doubt pressure is going to be placed on the new basketball season.
The MSC court is the best facility in Linden and the home of Linden Amateur Basketball Association. Its current condition, though not an excuse for the association, will affect the nature of their programmes for the 2009/10 season.
All is not lost however. An official close to the Executive of the Club told Kaieteur Sport on Tuesday that a new deal was brokered with Rotary Club of Linden to at least build the bleachers on the eastern side of the facility.
The source said that the Rotary is to work in conjunction with the Executive of MSC and as far as he knows, they are raising funds for the developmental work. There is, however, major other efforts to be made on the surface itself.
According the informant, the actual court, which bears long cracks along its surface from the large concrete slabs that were initially driven down, will not be an easy undertaking to facilitate both in labour and in financial terms.
An unofficial feasibility revealed that those slabs will have to be broken to about two feet down for the rehabilitation work to commence. The source indicated that the Rotary Club will not be able to undertake that single-handedly.

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