China to assist The Bahamas in stadium construction

The caption for the second is “Deputy PM Brent Symonette (right) and Hu Dingxian, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China”. Photo courtesy of Caribbean Net News

NASSAU, The Bahamas – DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Brent Symonette has  deemed the recent signing of an agreement between China and The Bahamas for assistance in the construction of a national stadium as a “continuation of the friendship” between the two countries.

According to Caribbean Net News, Symonette revealed the grant facilitated by the signing amounted to $7.3M and that construction on the project would commence in early 2009.

“The Bahamas and the People’s Republic of China has had diplomatic relationships for some years now. It is a very important day for us today because it does show we are developing further friendly relations and we are intending to have the mutual goal of being able to build a stadium here in the capital city of our Bahamas,” the Deputy PM said.

He further stated that The Bahamas has been very fortunate over the last two months to have had several delegations from the Chinese government visit his country to talk about the possibility of future internal development.

“As we look forward in 2009, we hope to look forward to more talks with the various agencies in China with regards to the development of The Bahamas,” Symonette revealed.