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| Parliamentary Representative for the St Johns Constituency Hon Malcolm Guishard with a section of the new St Johns Primary School in the background. |
CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (March 20, 2006) -- Minister of Agriculture and Parliamentary Representative for the St John's Constituency Hon Malcolm Guishard, has described the new playing field at Brown Hill as a dream come true for the government and people of Nevis particularly the people of Brown Hill.
The playfield was commissioned on Friday March 17, 2006, when the Ivor Walters Primary School at Prospect held its annual sports day activities at the new venue.
During an interview with the Government Information Service on Monday, Mr Guishard disclosed that in the Nevis Island Administration's continue effort to provide adequate sporting facilities for the youth on Nevis, the construction of a cricket pitch would commence shortly, "so that the young guys can feel satisfied that they have a full field to practice and play their matches on," he said.
Mr Guishard was hopeful that the facility would be utilised and noted that it was the Administration's intension to ensure that the facility was cared for and has planned to employ a caretaker.
In addition, the Parliamentary Representative said that the Administration was also in the process of completing the refurbishment of the basketball hard courts and an adjoining tennis hard court.
"We are in the process of painting a tennis court adjoining the Maisie Bartlette Community Centre and this should be done within another couple of weeks. Those persons who pass in Brown Hill can see the basketball court was repainted and it my understanding that the youths in the community would begin to engage other teams in matches on that court," he said.
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| Athletes of the Ivor Walters Primary School in action at the new Brown Hill playfield. |
Also in the works for the Maisie Bartlette Community Centre in Brown Hill, is the official opening of a library while computer classes are scheduled to commence this week.
Meantime, Mr Guishard took the opportunity to speak of the ongoing works at the new St Johns Primary School under construction at Cole Hill.
Work is progressing quite smoothly and I am very impressed with the progress that has been made thus far. Having spoken to the contractor's representative a while ago, he indicated to me that work is pretty much on schedule and we will have this new school by the end off this year.
"So hopefully, in January 2007, the students and teachers of the St Johns Primary school will be entering a new school. It appears to be a solid structure and these people [Chinese workmen] work round the clock. They are trying to ensure that we do get the school as promised by the end of 2006," he said.
