NSC completes in-house training room for coaches and organisers

─ building valued at 12 million

Timothy Jaikarran

The National Sports Commission (NSC) recently completed renovating one of the buildings in its compound to the tune of $12 million, and that building will now become a training room for coaches and organisers in Guyana.

The newly refurbished building

In an interview with Guyana Times Sport, Director of Sport, Christopher Jones, said: “Essentially, the space that is currently renovated was a storeroom or a dumping ground, so to speak. The entire room and walls were all caving in, so we have taken it upon ourselves to refurbish the space. Essentially, this space is going to cater for the coaches and the organisers. This is going to be their training room as well as their office space.”
Jones elaborated that while the training room has been completed, it still needs to be fully furnished. The building is currently fully conditioned, tiled, and fully grilled for security purposes. As time progresses, the building will be outfitted with a 70-inch flat screen television which will essentially lend to WIFI-ready training in all of the various sporting disciplines, he explained.
Jones also noted that, from time to time, if the need arises, the NSC will make the place readily available to other sporting associations or federations.
He said, “Essentially, there is an office that will house the Technical Directing Sporting Officer, which is Seon Erskine, who will be vetting all the work programmes from the various coaches and organisers to ensure that they are finished within a timely manner”.
He disclosed that the NSC has also hired two coaches who will focus on sports in Regions 1, 7, 8 and 9 as they aim to accomplish their objective of decentralising sports in the coastal areas.
Thus far, in the last month, the NSC has assisted the Athletics Association with $3 million to participate in the Junior CARIFTA Games 2019 in the Cayman Islands. The Deaf Association of Guyana received $200,000 towards their Annual Deaf Inter School Sports, and the Guyana Table Tennis Association received $3 million to participate in the recently concluded 61st Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships.