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Rose receives new backboards for Burnham Court
FINALLY!!! President of the GABA, Trevor Rose in a photo opportunity with some of the items he received yesterday as part of the Burnham Court Rehabilitation Project.
The Burnham Court Advancement Project received a further fillip yesterday when President of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Trevor Rose collected backboard kits that will soon be erected at the already refurbished facility.
Rose received a pair of new professional backboards, a pair of rims and a pair of nets at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport that were shipped from the United States of America through local basketball stakeholder, the Haynes Basketball Foundation.
Kaieteur Sport understands that the Rose-led GABA had bought the equipment as part of what is an extensive overhaul of the previously deplorable Burnham Court. Haynes facilitated the delivery of the items that took some eight weeks before it landed in GABA hands.
“All of the equipment will be erected on the Burnham Court. The one-sided backboard that is up right now will be moved to the court on Hunter Street and Punt Trench Dam, Albouystown after noticing the need on that court,” Rose told this newspaper yesterday.
The backboards on the Albouystown court are wooden and the GABA intends to upgrade those based on the fact that the community has proven that it is pro-basketball after being one of the premier teams in the annual Super-Ward Basketball tournament.
The National Sports Commission had taken down the northern backboard at the Burnham Court during the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) after one of the Surinamese players broke one of the boards at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last year.
One of the backboards on Burnham Court was a loan to the GABA from the Sports Commission that retrieved their board during IGG, leaving the Burnham Court with one backboard. The new backboards will continue the facelift of the Burnham Court.
“This is just another step forward. A lot more developmental work on the Burnham Court is still to come with the projected cost to complete our vision for the court estimated around $22M with the GABA in possession of only half that amount,” Rose informed.
He reiterated that his aim to fully develop the Burnham Basketball Court that already had works done to a western bleacher, court resurfacing, development of players’ benches and lights erected around the court, will continue as long as he is GABA President.
“Burnham Court is the Headquarters of basketball in Georgetown and it is only right for GABA to continue to give players a conducive environment to play,” Rose said, adding that he hope that Burnham Court will be a successful alternative to the Sports Hall.
The incumbent GABA President, with elections to be held in another week, believes that he must give the nations leading clubs, which he said are based in Georgetown, a proper facility to ensure that those clubs continue to dominate on the national landscape.
Asked if he believes that the work of his administration is being undermined, Rose said that he is a leader that has the sport at heart and the criticisms that were levied at him recently were long in coming with the changes he brought to the Georgetown sub-association.
(Edison Jefford)
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