Plans afoot for NSC to adopt national park rugby field

Following the success of the Guyana National Rugby teams in 2016, the sport has captured a particular interest by the National Sports Commission (NSC) and as such, the NSC will now move to “adopt” the facility.

According to Director of Sport, Christopher Jones the teams represented Guyana well and “the Sports Commission will very soon be meeting with the National Parks Commission with the view of sort of adopting the plot of land currently used by the rugby team.”

He noted that there will be a host of improvements on the grounds and it will be easier to facilitate these changes once under the care of the NSC.

“We would be doing some infrastructural works there in terms of raising the ground and installing light fixtures for them,” the NSC boss stated.

The Director of Sport went on to point out that there are already interactions between the two interested parties and a positive feedback has been given.

“We would have already made the request from the parks commission, this would have been before the year concluded we are now in 2017 and we are just waiting on them to indicate the best suitable time hopefully by the end of January and once that would be had that’s the direction we would be moving into,” Jones indicated.

A major achievement in 2016 was the men’s return to the top of regional rugby after winning the Rugby Americas North Sevens title, dethroning nemesis Trinidad and Tobago in the process while earning qualification for the prestigious 2017 Hong Kong Sevens. The sport also saw the re-emergence of the women’s team at the regional level which was another bright spark for the year.

Rugby players and officials have often complained of having to brave indifferent conditions in the national park since the ground is also used by persons playing other sport including cricket and football which leave the playing area unfavourable for the contact sport.