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Zonal football associations and the women’s football programme is expected to get $2 million a year in funding.


Sports Minister Boynes said that his government had put $18 million into the development of football and is expecting the corporate sector to contribute $30 million.

As part of the development, he said, special emphasis will be placed on the zonal competitions and on women’s football.

The Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs will also continue its support of the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) by providing coaches, equipment and other necessities, he ended.

With respect to the Professional Football League (PFL) and the Semi Professional League the Minister of Sport said, “Both increasingly excite us as the standard of play improves and more and more players of the highest class emerge.

“Both Leagues will continue to benefit from the Ministry’s assistance to the tune of $3 million a year. Commercial enterprise or not, we see the impact on national development and will continue to waive stadium rental fees.”

The Ministry’s Community Sport Programmes came in for some praise from Minister Boynes, who said all believed football can help fight crime and that sport should not be viewed as a distraction.

“Instead, sport reveals and therefore helps to build character and is a vehicle through which values that are key to personal and national development are transmitted,” said Boynes.

Because his Ministry understands this, said Boynes, it has employed resources in the Community Sport Programmes that have, in some cases, astounded the communities themselves. Boynes said:

“One such community has been Carenage, incidentally a community from which so many of our all-time football greats hail.