Ministry of Sports Pleased With Early Start to Term 2 Events

The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports got its slate of events for Term 2 underway with the ongoing Under-19 boys’ basketball tournament, which just wrapped up its second week of competition. Some delays aside, inter-house athletics competitions should begin next week, with inter-school table tennis, cricket, volleyball, and girls’ basketball to follow. Isabel Alexander-Marquis, the ministry’s point person for school sports, has thanked all involved for ensuring a timely start to this term’s programme.  “Feedback from the schools, I think they’re very cooperative,” said Alexander-Marquis. “And they understand the term and what normally happens in the term, how busy it is. And they try to work as much as possible with the ministry. “I want to include the collaborative effort with additional stakeholder ministries like the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and the security department.” After an interrupted first-term programme, with some of the scheduled sports pushed back to the second term, the ministry is putting a premium on execution. The delay allowed for more schools to get involved in the boys’ basketball. Half the eligible institutions signed up for 2025, a slight improvement year-on-year, though participation is not as high as a decade ago. “We...