The Min­istry of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and the Sports Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SporTT) made a sig­nif­i­cant in­vest­ment by pro­vid­ing fund­ing to the tune of over $9.4 mil­lion to var­i­ous en­ti­ties on Oc­to­ber 6, in­clud­ing Na­tion­al Gov­ern­ing Bod­ies (NG­Bs), ath­letes, in­di­vid­u­als, and com­mu­ni­ty groups. This Cheque Pre­sen­ta­tion Cer­e­mo­ny took place at the Bel­mont Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis, Min­is­ter of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, em­pha­sized the gov­ern­ment’s ded­i­ca­tion to putting peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties at the fore­front of its de­vel­op­ment agen­da, in keep­ing with the Vi­sion 2030 man­date.

Dur­ing the brief cer­e­mo­ny, Mr. Patrice Charles, As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor of the Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion and Sport Di­vi­sion, en­cour­aged re­cip­i­ents to use the funds for their in­tend­ed pur­pos­es. Mr. Li­onel Samp­son, Deputy Di­rec­tor of the Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Di­vi­sion, al­so stressed the im­por­tance of us­ing the fund­ing to bring about pos­i­tive trans­for­ma­tions, re­vi­tal­iza­tion, and em­pow­er­ment with­in com­mu­ni­ties.