New­ly ap­point­ed pres­i­dent of the Surf­ing As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT), Che Lovelace, has sig­nalled his com­mit­ment to work on the de­vel­op­ment of surf­ing in the coun­try. Lovelace made this in­ten­tion clear fol­low­ing the as­so­ci­a­tion's re­cent ap­point­ment of new man­age­ment which will be re­spon­si­ble for the de­vel­op­ment of the sport for a two-year term. Lovelace said that he in­tend­ed to put more time, ef­fort and re­sources in­to work­ing on the de­vel­op­men­tal as­pects of the sport. This in­cludes in­tro­duc­ing surf­ing to more young peo­ple while keep­ing an eye out for pos­si­ble com­pet­i­tive tal­ent.

The pres­i­dent sees surf­ing as an im­por­tant recre­ation­al ac­tiv­i­ty and ex­pects the SATT to as­sist in cre­at­ing clubs, es­pe­cial­ly in coastal ar­eas that can give ex­ist­ing surfers, as well as in­ter­est­ed youth, a fo­cus. "Es­sen­tial­ly, SATT should help fos­ter parental in­volve­ment in the surf­ing and beach-go­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of their kids. If we can help the folks with sim­i­lar in­ter­ests to par­tic­i­pate in a kind of fam­i­ly day sit­u­a­tion, we will ful­fil a so­cial func­tion while en­cour­ag­ing and keep­ing an eye out for tal­ent," Lovelace ex­pressed.

The mem­bers of the com­mit­tee are: Che Lovelace (Pres­i­dent), Kei­th Lewis (Vice-pres­i­dent), War­ren Ros­tant (Trea­sur­er), Ravin Ramkissoon, Christo­pher Den­nis and Sher­rard Spiers (Of­fi­cers).