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February 28, 200
bron Saba News Agency
On Tuesday morning two representatives from the Curacao Sports
Federation visited the island of Saba and held discussions with several entities on
the island in regards to sports. Mr. Stanley Marks and Roxienne Albertina held
discussions with Lt. Governor Sydney Sorton and Commissioner of Sports Mr. Bruce
Zagers. Following their meeting with the members of the Executive Council they also
held discussions with several representatives of sports on the island.
Ms. Albertina met with the various representatives and first of all pointed out to
them the urgency to establish a Sports Federation on the island. She explained that
there is lots of possibilities for Saba by setting up a Sports Federation and the
island will be able to participate in all activities that revolves around sports.
The representatives of the various sporting organizations explained the problems
that the island has been encountering with several sporting activities on the island
and also pointed out the small scale of players on the island, however she did
encourage the organizations to try and do everything possible to establish a
sporting federation on the island, and if their federation can be of any assistance
to please feel free and call on the them as they are willing to assist the island in
setting up a good functioning federation.
Members of the various sporting organizations in attendance also brought forward
that there is an urgent need to have a sports coordinator appointed on the island
that would be able to assist in the area of sports at this present time every
organization is doing their own thing and nothing is structured. Also attending the
meeting with the sporting organizations were Commissioner of Sports Mr. Bruce Zagers
who also encouraged the organization to follow up on the establishing of the
federation on the island and said that he is presently working with Lt. Governor
Sydney Sorton as representative of the CUS to see how they would be able to go about
finding a suitable candidate to take on the task as Sports Coordinator. Commissioner
Zagers said that he is very much interested in sports and he would do his utmost
best to try and get this matter solved as soon as possible as he know the benefit
that a good sports coordinator can have for the island.
The future of sports was also discussed after the Netherlands Antilles splits up on
December 15th 2008 and how the islands will continue forward as there wont be
anymore Netherlands Antilles. Further discussions regarding this will take place at
a later date due to the fact that it is not clear yet how this will be taken up in
the new status of the respective islands. It was pointed out though that although
the islands are breaking up as a country that does not mean that we still cannot do
things together as the Dutch Caribbean islands.
The representatives of the sporting organizations on the island was very pleased
with the discussions held and are looking forward in some follow up. They
represented Cricket, Domino, Basket Ball, Baseball, Soccer, Softball and Swimming.
Due to the short notice many other sporting organizations were unable to attend the
meeting. The delegation left Saba on Tuesday afternoon for St. Maarten where they
willb e also meeting with representives of sporting organization on that island and
is also scheduled to travel to St. Eustatius on Wednesday.
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