Min­is­ter of Sport Anil Roberts will meet with com­mu­ni­ty co­or­di­na­tors and re­gion­al man­agers of the Life Sport Pro­gramme at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um to­day at 1 pm.

The Life Sport pro­gramme, the brain­child of Roberts, got un­der­way in Au­gust, at 33 cen­tres through­out the coun­try and caters for un­em­ployed males be­tween the ages of 16-25. The pro­gramme would be con­duct­ed over two years and dur­ing this time the youths would un­der­go train­ing in foot­ball, bas­ket­ball, crick­et, life skill train­ing as well as nu­mer­a­cy, lit­er­a­cy and mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy.

The main aim is to use the medi­um of sport and life skill in an ef­fort to as­sist in the re­duc­tion of crime and crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties. Sev­er­al for­mer na­tion­al play­ers are in­volved in the pro­gramme as co­or­di­na­tors, re­gion­al man­agers and coach­es. Among them are for­mer na­tion­al play­ers in­clude Derek King, An­gus Eve, An­cil El­cock, An­tho­ny Rougi­er, Reynold Car­ring­ton, Wes­ley Webb, Aneil Ra­jah and Su­ruj Ma­habir.