A NEW body was elected to run the affairs of the newly renamed Agnes Blair Basketball Court located in Amelia’s Ward.

Former Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) administrator Robert Archer is the president with Allister Webster as vice-president.

Cheryl Waithe is secretary, Kevin Joseph treasurer, Numez Browne assistant secretary/treasurer and committee members are Shawn Kitt, Shauna Chester and Wilfred Younge.

President Archer said that the decision to rename the court after senior resident Mrs Agnes Blair was mainly because the member of the Amelia’s Ward community was instrumental in obtaining that piece of land for the construction of the basketball court in the 1990s and as such they agreed that it be renamed in honour of her efforts to procure a recreational facility.

Several members of the committee are past or present players of the Amelia’s Ward Jets basketball club.

The Brusches Basketball Foundation and Byron Freso have donated a pair of new backboards and two stanchions for the court.

He said that soon they will engage the relevant authority to finalise this decision by the residents in that community and seek to improve on the regulations concerning use of the court and how it will be managed.