Anthony understands the importance of facilities

Jan 06, 2011 Sports

By Edison Jefford

Despite unnecessary construction delays and contractors’ procrastination, whether under pressure to produce or results from his personal or organisational initiatives, it became lucid that Dr Frank Anthony understands the importance of sport facilities.
If anyone has followed the nature and content of my critical reviews and opinions in the past, it’s not difficult to imagine that something strikingly obvious has occurred that has constrained me to this positive review of the Anthony-led sport ministry.
In his tenure as Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Anthony has presided over the erection of the Guyana National Stadium, the construction of the Olympic-sized Swimming Pool and what is soon to become reality, the Synthetic Track and Field facility.
Those are three of the major sport facilities that athletes, associations and even sport writers had clamoured for before Anthony. The Ministry of Sport is also directly attached to the construction of the Racquet Centre along the Woolford Avenue corridor.
There is one fundamental thought behind the construction of sport facilities: without them, sports cannot develop at an acceptable rate. Additionally, sport associations should never shoulder what can be called ‘the major burden to build’ required sport facilities.
When you combine those two factors, you get a holistic idea of the administration of the minister relative to sport facilities. It must be made clear here that the subject of discussion is facilities. It is not the general output of the sport ministry or any other factor.
When you consider the fact that sport facilities are being built, it forces you to consider, for a brief moment at least, the serious nature of the ministry on the development of sport. It forces an analyst to also gravely consider the responsibility of the ministry.
The Olympic-sized Swimming Pool will be completed years outside its scheduled deadline, the Racquet Centre is already behind schedule and time will tell about the timeline of the Synthetic Track and Field Facility, which is going up at Leonora.
The untimely handing over of the facilities is among some of the issues that have tainted what would have otherwise been pristine initiatives. It is a factor that can oppose the seriousness of the ministry even though they are constructing the facilities.
But on the note of getting the facilities in Guyana, Anthony understands that it is Government’s responsibility to build them. The importance of facilities will be seen when they are completed and handed over to the various sport disciplines for maximum usage.

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