The Kendal GL Isaacs Gymnasium.
By EARYEL BOWLEG
ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
THE government has allocated $1.2m for Hurricane Dorian related restoration efforts that fall under the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, including clean up of the Kendal G L Isaacs National Gymnasium.
Yesterday, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Lanisha Rolle said the clean up provisions were made through a supplementary budget. She said repairs are needed as the gym sustained “wear and tear” due to being used as an emergency shelter to thousands of displaced storm victims for months after the storm.
Sterilisation has started and an inspection is scheduled by the end of the week.
“I will be there inspecting along with the chairman of the (National Sports Authority) NSA and along with other authorities,” Mrs Rolle said. “We will be there so that we see exactly firsthand what is going, what is the state of facilities and what we need to do to move it forward.
“They have presented some of their information but we just want to see it for ourselves what state is it in and how quickly from there we will know how quickly were able to have everything up and operational again.”
The budget she added is also to repair the ministry’s Family Island offices, in particular the Grand Bahama office that was “totally demolished” and left under water due to the hurricane.
She was not able to give a timeline for the restoration, saying she would give one after the inspection of NSA facilities.
The Department of Environmental Health Services, Pan-American Health Organisation and an accompanying vector control team carried out the inspection of the Kendal Isaacs Gym last September and found conditions at the facility were unsatisfactory at the time.
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Comments
TalRussell 4 years, 8 months ago
Remember the days when the Tribune, actually had on their payroll a professional photographer who actually knew how take pictures act as kinds of pictorial newspapers news stories. Maybe Tribune's former photographer comrade Franklyn, can freelance for newspaper? Yeah, no?
John 4 years, 8 months ago
They should leave the gym in better condition than they met it
stillwaters 4 years, 8 months ago
Tal, I remember.......and long for those days again......sigh
TalRussell 4 years, 8 months ago
Comrade Stillwaters, with pre general election campaign done underway, what we need is for some newly money bag comrade to fund the startup of a tabloid kinds newspaper, likes kinds tabloid newspapers they have across the Pond in our Motherland of UK. Then pay for citizens to sequel tales about their government, bosses, spouses, secret lovers, prostitutes, friends and supply juicy pictures as rock solid evidence. Yeah, no. And, they operate under same colonial libel and slander laws as we newspapers, go figure that?
Well_mudda_take_sic 4 years, 8 months ago
Why are Hubert Minnis, Elsworth Johnson, Frankie Campbell and Darren Henfield still protecting the illegal Haitian aliens rather than arranging for them to be rounded up and deported? These four cabinet ministers should have long ago arranged for a system of sustained round ups and deportations to be put in place.
All we ever get from Minnis, Johnson, Campbell and Henfield is lip service with no real action. It's no small wonder these four elected officials are now regarded as illegal Haitian alien sympathizers by many 'true' Bahamians. Meanwhile our limited financial and other resources continue to be consumed by these invaders who undoubtedly aim to eventually make second class citizens of all of us 'true' Bahamians in our own country.
jus2cents 4 years, 8 months ago
Probably needed a good refurbishment Before the evacuees went there!
joeblow 4 years, 8 months ago
... definitely needs a good refurbishment after they left!!
jus2cents 4 years, 8 months ago
Probably needed a good refurbishment Before the evacuees went there.
shonkai 4 years, 8 months ago
Not the evacuees fault, but the authorities, for not having adequate shelters in an island nation which is in the way of hurricanes almost every year.
joeblow 4 years, 8 months ago
... so common sense and decency regarding taking care of your immediate environment, while donors feed and clothe them, does not apply to them because... ??
TalRussell 4 years, 8 months ago
Wow! Not so encouraging news reach Bernard Road for the comrade owner them 50 hotel rooms on rental to colony's genius of a government.Yeah, no? If you try write this stuff,just you be prepared for an extended stay on certain ward up at Sandilands! Again, who's be put in charge that virus?
sheeprunner12 4 years, 8 months ago
Meanwhile …………. NO plans to create real hurricane shelters in the 30 inhabited islands …… Wonder what will be on NEMA list come May when they post "hurricane shelters" for the country.
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