THE Ministry of Sport will advertise shortly for persons to staff the Leonora Athletics Facility.With a projected deadline to finally open the facility in March this year, Sport Minister Dr Frank Anthony said the work is ‘still on track’.

He said the finishing touches to the Clubhouse and all other areas are ongoing. The Guyana Power and Light is installing power to the facility. The lighting towers have been erected.
The track has long been completed. However, because there were no full-time employees at the facility, the Ministry has not allowed clubs to use the facility.
Dr Anthony said the Staffing Structure that has been developed will cater for 19 persons.
“We might be moving one and two people within the ministry who would have the requisite skill to go over but there would be a set of vacancies that we would be advertising.”
Meanwhile, a staffing structure is also to be put in place for the Aquatic Centre at Liliendaal on the East Coast Embankment.
A number of employees required was however not given.
With the Olympic-size swimming pool completed, a shorter warm-up pool has been constructed, but it is not ready for use. The deck is yet to be put in.
“We just have a few days of work remaining,” said the Minister.
“Our biggest trouble there has been the consistency of the contractors. Sometimes they come and sometimes they don’t come and that is what has delayed us, but the warm-up pool itself is functional; it’s operational, but we don’t want people to go there without the deck being completed.”
Dr Anthony said it’s not major work but his Permanent Secretary Alfred King and his team are working with the contractors to have it completed in the near future.

(By LeeronBrumell)