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By Neto Baptiste
Schools across Antigua and Barbuda stand to benefit from an agreement between the Ministry of Sports and corporate citizens, Cool & Smooth, that will outfit school teams across all sport within the ministry’s programme.
This is according to the country’s new Commissioner of Sports, Dr. Colin Greene, who said the initiative will see each school receiving uniforms for all disciplines in which they compete, thereby easing the financial burden on the principals.
“Each school will be provided, I think, initially with 50 uniforms give or take and the uniforms will be replaced every two years and the sponsorship agreement is intended to run for the next 10 years. So we’re reducing expenses in one area, then we have to reallocate the money to strengthen other areas,” he said.
The announcement was made during a meeting held last week between the Ministry of Sports and secondary school principals across Antigua and Barbuda, during which they agreed on the way forward for school sports.
Dr Greene said he was hoping the initiative would have come on stream at the start of the new school year, but promised action within five months.
“Originally, it should have come on board to start in this term and it didn’t happen but we are getting the guarantee that the launch will be late January, early February and that programme for me, is an interesting one. What it will do is provide new reforms of the sporting disciplines of all of the schools that participate in all of the sports, private and public; secondary and primary,” he said.
Apart from the uniform initiative, principals of government schools were presented with cheques as part of the government’s promise to provide seed funding for schools to aid in the preparation of teams for various competitions.
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