Lights ordered, plans for CCTV camera in budgeted upgrades for Gymnasium – Sport Minister Ramson
With the deterioration of lights and lack of security cameras at the National Gymnasium having become an issue, the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr, announced that acquisition of security cameras has been catered for in the national budget, and lights have been ordered for the facility.
This announcement was made at the year-of-end presser of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Homestretch Avenue in Georgetown, where the Sport Minister was quizzed by journalists in regard to the dimming lights and the facility’s lack of security cameras.
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr
Minister Ramson’s response was, “Yeah! So, we just ordered! We just ordered some more, some better-quality lights. The scale, the intensity of the lights, the lumens, etcetera, dictate the price, right? That dictates the price. So, we’ve been trying our best. I’m very stingy with money in terms of how we spend and because we have to stretch. There’s a lot for us to do, so we have to stretch.
“And, you know, when you have a lot to do and you don’t have a, you know, you don’t have all of the money…
But I like that, you know. I actually like being able to think carefully about how we’re going to spend money and what’s the best possible way to spend money, because you want to get value too. So, we’ve just ordered some for the Gymnasium,” the minister explained.
“I’m hoping that’ll address it too! I’m close with the basketball players there too, so they’ve reached out to me for their games. In their situation, because they have league games there, it’s an important, I would say, investment for us to make there,” Sport Minister Ramson explained.
Deterioration of the lights has caused some games in the One Guyana League to be postponed, and the Guyana Basketball Federation has been forced to bring in portable lights; while the lack of camera facilities has resulted in vehicles in the parking lot specifically being subjected to acts of burglary.
