The Sports Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SporTT) has pre­sent­ed the re­vi­talised Marac Recre­ation Ground, equipped with top-notch ameni­ties for sports and recre­ation.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Paula Gopee-Scoon de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress on be­half of Sham­fa Cud­joe, Min­is­ter of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and un­der­scored Gov­ern­ment’s con­tin­ued ef­forts to pro­vide mod­ern, ac­ces­si­ble spaces for sport and phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty. She en­cour­aged the peo­ple of Marac and the wider Moru­ga com­mu­ni­ty to use the up­grad­ed fa­cil­i­ty to en­hance their well­be­ing by get­ting out­doors and get­ting ac­tive.

“Sport and recre­ation pro­mote men­tal health and well-be­ing,” Min­is­ter Gopee-Scoon said, “and al­so im­proves your over­all mood, so it’s very im­por­tant that we all get in­volved in ac­tiv­i­ty. This ground will un­doubt­ed­ly be a place for such ac­tiv­i­ty in Marac.”

The Min­is­ter praised SporTT for its work in up­grad­ing sev­er­al fa­cil­i­ties, in­clud­ing the Moru­ga Sport & Youth Mul­ti­pur­pose Fa­cil­i­ty, and recre­ation grounds in Bourg Mu­la­tresse, Aranguez and Grand Riv­iere. The lat­ter is ex­pect­ed to be hand­ed over to the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion soon.

Min­is­ter Gopee-Scoon al­so helped present crick­et and foot­ball equip­ment (a do­na­tion by SporTT) to sport­ing clubs and ath­letes from the com­mu­ni­ty. Among the re­cip­i­ents were Cephas Coop­er, Jor­dan Julien, An­der­son Pe­ters, Trench Town Crick­et Club, Moru­ga Foot­ball Club and Mas­call Foot­ball Acad­e­my.

Speak­ing at the event, Chair­man of the Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Gowrie Roop­nar­ine ex­pressed his thanks to SporTT for its over­sight of the works and promised to do all in his pow­er to en­sure the fa­cil­i­ty is utilised for the ben­e­fit of the de­vel­op­ing com­mu­ni­ty of Marac.