 A thorough assessment of the sports facilities on Ireland has been conducted by Honourable Kensan Kazeme, Minister for Youth Development and Sports. The assessment formed part of the Minister's fact-finding mission as he finalises plans for the management of facilities at the national level. Details from Janita Peter. Minister for Youth Development and Sports, Honourable Kensan Kazeme, recently led a delegation on a side visit to sporting facilities that form part of the National Sports Infrastructure Program NSIP. The sides, as it said, included the Souffrement Stadium, the Derriso, Miko and Denry Plainfields. The visits were necessary in providing an overview of the conditions at those sporting facilities. I will say that today was eye-opening. A number of the facilities that have been considered complete still require a number of adjustments and a number of, it seemed to have a lot of TV issues. Going forward, we as a ministry, we're going to put in place a national facility management policy together. We are going to be doing that under, well, the auspices of NLA and SSI so that we can have standards as it pertains to what playing fields are supposed to look like. Honourable Kazeme was accompanied by the Member of Parliament for Souffre, for Sezak, Emma Hippolit, and the Member of Parliament for Miko North, Honourable Jeremiah Nobot, along with officials from the Departments of Economic Development and the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. I know we've had a lot of young people in here. We want to start a football competition, there are certain things missing, and what I was happy to hear the minister giving me a commitment that within the next two weeks we'll try to get two goalposts, at least so that the football competition could start in Souffre. There are other things that we have to do. We have to put a management committee in place to manage this facility and the ministry is going to assist in that. The other area for us is the maintenance of the facility. Chairman of the Therosof Football League, Mr Innocent Sataj, expressed that although he was generally satisfied with the new facility in his community, there were matters requiring some attention. We would like to see that all the potential hazards on the field are taken care of. We would like to have an area, a technical area. We also like to see a well-developed warm-up area. We would also hope that we have shelter in the near future and a place where the vendors can comfortably sell their produce. We would also like to have our own dressing and storage area. It would be nice if we have a building where players can get dressed, they can get their massages, they can get a bath after games and so on and so forth. As much as I'm an avid lover of sports, everything about sports, you get it in Jeremiah. I still have some difficulties with the artificial surface. I'm pro-green, so I prefer our green surface and I understand the reasoning and the rationale behind this surface. As I said, I do have my challenges with it. But having spoken to the Minister of Youth and Sports today, there is some hope that we will see even further development and improvement with the surface and also with stands where people will be able to come and watch a football game. The youth development and sports ministers said his ministry would like to see the formulation of policy to deal with the upkeep and management of sporting facilities on the island. Julia Peter reporting.