“Massive transformation” of Sports Hall parking lot underway

…internal works also progressing

With just about a week before its doors open to several Caribbean countries, works at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) are moving apace in order to ready the facility for the FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship, slated to be hosted from November 12 to November 16.
One of the main projects to be completed at CASH was the floors, which have been redone.

In addition to that project, Minister within the Sport Ministry, Steven Jacobs shared an update on how internal works have been going at the facility.
Minister Jacobs informed, “So, the Sports Hall is actually coming along very nicely. The painting of the court, making sure that the backboard, ring and so forth are in place, making sure that the washroom is serviced and also, like Minister Charles Ramson spoke about, in terms of having the parking facility, that’ll be ready.
“A technical space for the persons who’ll be here from FIBA, so everything is in place basically. We’re working very, very hard. One of the things that we want to make sure is that all the facilities here are ready for these major tournaments, and just like we said earlier, we want to make sure that Guyana is a sporting destination, and for that to happen, the facilities need to be in order,” the cricketer-turned-politician added.

On the other hand, Sport Minister Charles Ramson Jr divulged that the external work will see the expansion of the parking lot, thus resulting in a Hadfield Street entrance to the venue.
“You’ll see that the entire back has been cleared out; you’re going to get an entirely new parking lot in about two weeks’ time. You should be able to go back there and see a massive transformation at the back, which was once a swamp. But now you have a huge parking lot there,” Ramson Jr said in an update to media operatives.
Highlighting how massive the parking lot will become, Ramson Jr revealed that several other sports will now be able to utilise the outdoor facility.
He explained, “That will be used, not just for the big events for parking, but we want to use that also for a number of other sport activities. For example, Netball Association came to meet with us just recently, and one of the things we made a commitment to was they’re going to have a home at the back there, because they wanted to have a place they can come and start playing consistently.”
“It’s so big now that you’ll see a lot of night games being played there: futsal, tape ball cricket, outdoor basketball, maybe even some tennis. That fact that it’s so big, there’re a lot of uses for the facility now,” he added.
Further, Ramson Jr noted that a similar undertaking will be executed at the Racquet Centre on Woolford Avenue.
The Sport Minister further divulged, “That’s just moving in the direction of everything that you’re doing, ’cause you’ll see that happening as well to the Racquet Centre, as we move toward the completion of that now too, at the end of the year.”
“The Hall is being painted right now; there is a multipurpose flooring that is being put in with the same company that’s installing the synthetic material currently at the New Amsterdam stadium. So, we’re on the verge of completing that project too, as well as the parking lot being built there.”
The Bahamas, Jamaica, Suriname, and the Virgin Islands will compete alongside hosts Guyana in the Caribbean Championship, vying for three spots at the 2026 CentroBasket competition.Igente necature consenda dolupta dolupit qu