Richard Lord

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said her two-year-old Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship (PP) re­mained com­mit­ted to de­vel­op­ing the sports­men and women of T&T. She said as a con­se­quence sev­er­al fa­cil­i­ties were at var­i­ous stages of com­ple­tion to as­sist sports­men and women. Speak­ing at the PP's sec­ond an­niver­sary ral­ly in Mid Cen­tre Mall, Ch­agua­nas on Thurs­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion work had com­menced on 94 recre­ation grounds across Trinidad. She said when com­plet­ed some 250,000 peo­ple will ben­e­fit.

She said: "Con­struc­tion of the Na­tion­al Ac­quat­ic Cen­tre, which was first promised by late prime min­is­ter Dr Er­ic Williams 46 years ago, has al­ready com­menced un­der Sports Min­is­ter Anil Roberts." Al­so shar­ing that work on the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Vele­drome, next to the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va had al­so start­ed." Per­sad-Bisses­sar said, "More than 1,500 com­mu­ni­ty groups, non-gov­ern­ment or­gan­i­sa­tions, re­li­gious bod­ies, teams and clubs have re­ceived fund­ing and as­sis­tance to tune of $60 mil­lion boost work in their com­mu­ni­ties." The PM al­so stat­ed that T&T will be rep­re­sent­ed at this year's Olympics in Lon­don in track and field, swim­ming and cy­cling. She went on to boast that T&T will al­so par­tic­i­pate in the sport of box­ing at the Olympics for the first time since 1996 and al­so take part in the sport of sail­ing for the first time since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.