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Burrell to bat for int’l games at Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium
By PAUL REID Observer West reporter
MONTEGO BAY, St James
Incoming president of the Jamaica Football Federation, Horace Burrell, plans to approach the government with a view to using the newly constructed Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium for international games soon after taking office.
Burrell, who was speaking at Tuesday’s launch of the fourth St James Football Association's Captain’s Bakery Knockout at the Wexford Hotel, said he hoped his administration will be able to help revive football in western Jamaica and playing international matches in the region would be one such step.
Burrell, the former JFF head and senior vice-president of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), will take office on November 4 at the Voting Congress set for Hanover after he was the sole nominee for the post of president, garnering 11 of the 13 nominations.
After the function, Burrell told the OBSERVER WEST that he was hoping the new Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government would hasten the completion of the Catherine Hall multipurpose stadium, which he said would further enhance the quality of the game in western Jamaica and particularly Montego Bay.
It was recently announced that the contract, valued at over US$10m for the second phase of the construction, was awarded to a Venezuelan entity and work was to start soon.
Burrell said that upon completion the Catherine Hall stadium with its state-of-the-art football field would add to the number of international fields in the island.
The Trelawny facility was completed earlier this year to host practice games and the opening ceremony for the ICC Cricket World Cup but has hosted just one event since then, a reggae concert last weekend.
Recently Independence Park Limited was named as the agency which would have control of it.
Independence Park Limited also has responsibility for the National Stadium, National Arena, the National Swimming Pool Complex and the National Indoor Sports Centre.
BUSINESS AND FOOTBALL. PaulineRed,president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Indust rychats with President of theSt JamesFobl AssociationOr lePowell(centre)
By PAUL REID Observer West reporter
MONTEGO BAY, St James
Incoming president of the Jamaica Football Federation, Horace Burrell, plans to approach the government with a view to using the newly constructed Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium for international games soon after taking office.
Burrell, who was speaking at Tuesday’s launch of the fourth St James Football Association's Captain’s Bakery Knockout at the Wexford Hotel, said he hoped his administration will be able to help revive football in western Jamaica and playing international matches in the region would be one such step.
Burrell, the former JFF head and senior vice-president of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), will take office on November 4 at the Voting Congress set for Hanover after he was the sole nominee for the post of president, garnering 11 of the 13 nominations.
After the function, Burrell told the OBSERVER WEST that he was hoping the new Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government would hasten the completion of the Catherine Hall multipurpose stadium, which he said would further enhance the quality of the game in western Jamaica and particularly Montego Bay.
It was recently announced that the contract, valued at over US$10m for the second phase of the construction, was awarded to a Venezuelan entity and work was to start soon.
Burrell said that upon completion the Catherine Hall stadium with its state-of-the-art football field would add to the number of international fields in the island.
The Trelawny facility was completed earlier this year to host practice games and the opening ceremony for the ICC Cricket World Cup but has hosted just one event since then, a reggae concert last weekend.
Recently Independence Park Limited was named as the agency which would have control of it.
Independence Park Limited also has responsibility for the National Stadium, National Arena, the National Swimming Pool Complex and the National Indoor Sports Centre.
BUSINESS AND FOOTBALL. PaulineRed,president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Indust rychats with President of theSt JamesFobl AssociationOr lePowell(centre)
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