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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>$6M development plan for Carder Park</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>Everard Owen
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Carder Park, the premier football field in Portland, is to benefit from a $6-million facelift via the Portland Development Fund co-chaired by Daryl Vaz and Dennis Wright - both Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretakers.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The announcement was made on Saturday at a brief ceremony at the park where symbolic ground breaking was done.
Carder Park deteriorated after years of neglect, but before that it hosted football, cricket, cycling and netball matches. The Sports Development Foundation had spent $3 million 1997 to get the park going where the surface was redone and perimeter wall erected, but that was destroyed by heavy rains in January 1998.
In announcing the developmental plans, Vaz the JLP caretaker for West Portland, said: "Carder Park is to become the premier sporting facility in this parish and the rehabilitation work includes the erection of perimeter fencing, valued at $1 million (and) $4.1 million for the upgrading of two fields - the main field and a training field.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Pland are also afoot to install a state of the art irrigation system to keep the field in good condition. The funds, Vaz claims, are already in place.
He explained that the Portland Development fund was established "to finance primarily sports and education related community projects throughout the parish".
Vaz noted his confidence in the present staff of the Carder Park Management Development Committee due primarily to their record of maintaining the park with the limited resources available.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Oral Trowers, chairman of the Carder Park Management Development Committee and treasurer for the Portland Football Association, welcomed the plans and said "the committee will endeavor to maintain the park and get a first class playing surface".
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>Everard Owen
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P class=StoryText align=justify>PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Carder Park, the premier football field in Portland, is to benefit from a $6-million facelift via the Portland Development Fund co-chaired by Daryl Vaz and Dennis Wright - both Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretakers.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The announcement was made on Saturday at a brief ceremony at the park where symbolic ground breaking was done.
Carder Park deteriorated after years of neglect, but before that it hosted football, cricket, cycling and netball matches. The Sports Development Foundation had spent $3 million 1997 to get the park going where the surface was redone and perimeter wall erected, but that was destroyed by heavy rains in January 1998.
In announcing the developmental plans, Vaz the JLP caretaker for West Portland, said: "Carder Park is to become the premier sporting facility in this parish and the rehabilitation work includes the erection of perimeter fencing, valued at $1 million (and) $4.1 million for the upgrading of two fields - the main field and a training field.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Pland are also afoot to install a state of the art irrigation system to keep the field in good condition. The funds, Vaz claims, are already in place.
He explained that the Portland Development fund was established "to finance primarily sports and education related community projects throughout the parish".
Vaz noted his confidence in the present staff of the Carder Park Management Development Committee due primarily to their record of maintaining the park with the limited resources available.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Oral Trowers, chairman of the Carder Park Management Development Committee and treasurer for the Portland Football Association, welcomed the plans and said "the committee will endeavor to maintain the park and get a first class playing surface".
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