Bleachers, washrooms to be upgraded in Waramuri Community Ground with $10M enhancement

While Waramuri benefitted from a spanking new, $434M secondary school on Wednesday last, education was not the only sector boosted during the visit of Government officials to the Region 1 village.
During his time there, President Irfaan Ali shared that the village would receive $10m for upgrades to their community ground, which the village council wasted no time in planning for.
During an exclusive chat with the Guyana Times Sport, village council member Zimri Peters divulged some of the plans for the recently announced funds.
“The plan is – which is already being finalised by the village and the sports club in the village – we have decided that we will be building some bleachers around the ground with some sanitary facilities, and we also want to get our pitch upgraded so we could host hardball cricket, and we also want to get the grass mat so we could also host football on the same ground,” he revealed.
Peters went on to disclose, “Also, along with those things that I’ve mentioned, we’ll be doing two original signboard for the playground so the playground can be identified as soon as you enter the village.”
Speaking to the significance of the investment, Zimri highlighted how important sport has been to the community.

The Village Council member emphasised, “Sports is helping the young people a lot, having the facilities, having the care, having the coaches. I see sports is being loved by young people, and it’s beneficial when it comes to the community to see young people get themselves occupied in something meaningful, doing something where they could socialise and not lingering around the place where they could find other things to do. Sport has been helping a lot in this community.”
“I must say thanks to the Government for providing the necessary resource that we’re having now, and sports has been developing in this community.”
He further broke down some of their recent achievements in sport, especially with regard to cricket and football.
“As a village in general, we have been excelling in football in Georgetown, through the schools’ football programmes. So far, we have some persons who were identified for trials to be on the national team. Yes, we are so proud of the kids starting from young ages, training to play football, and we can see improvement. We can see that sport in general is doing a wonderful job for the young people growing up in this village,” Peters shared.
He further enlightened, “It’s a game that we’ve been playing for a long while, but only softball and tape ball, and recently, over the past two years, we’ve introduced leather ball cricket in the community, and so far, we have provided three to five national players in the junior category, under-15, under-17, and under-19.”
While individual talents like Makayah Holmes have been called up to national teams for cricket, Waramuri Primary’s boys’ and girls’ teams are currently the reigning Courts Boys’ Pee-Wee and MVP Sports Girls’ Pee-Wee Champions. Meanwhile, both Waramuri Secondary’s Under-14Boys’ and Girls’ teams recently finished third in the ExxonMobil Boys’ and Girls’ U14 Schools’ football tournaments.