The Tribune

By LEESHAN MORLEY

Tribune Intern

AFTER 20 long years, the Bahamas Games are finally back.

This Friday marks the beginning of the sixth Bahamas Games here in New Providence.

With the games being so close, the tension is high between the islands, and the trash talk is getting louder. This leaves many to wonder - how exactly is the government preparing to bring our New Providence team to victory?

According to Roy Colebrooke, chairman of the New Providence Sports Council, it has been confirmed that the housing accommodations for some of the New Providence teams have been finalised.

They will be housed at Marriott hotel and Breezes resort.

“We made a big breakthrough with the help of the minister and the chairman as it relates to accommodations for some of the New Providence team.”

Colebrooke added: “We have made some changes in the best interest of New Providence, and we are very grateful for that.”

For this year’s games, there has been a change. It has been decided that there will not be a draft this year to allow athletes to choose where they want to play.

Although this may seem like a disadvantage for New Providence, Colebrook said that they have tried their best to assist with building competition for the games. “It was very important for us to relax the draft at this time, and I think it is working out very well,” Colebrooke said.

“When it comes to athletes, we did our endeavour best to try and change the whole aspect as it relates to giving people freedom of choice.”

As Friday quickly approaches, the Family Islands are letting us know that they are ready to face off against the New Providence team.

Colebrooke informed us of a few phrases made by some of the other teams. One of them being that ‘we coming for pirates and pirates only’.

Regardless of the noise, Colebrooke still remains very confident in the New Providence team stating that, as pirates, we take all we can and give nothing back.