Warm-up pool for Pattensen; $180m set aside for community grounds’ development

A warm-up pool is to be added to Guyana’s 50m Olympic size- swimming pool at Pattensen. (Orlando Charles photo)

By Iva Wharton

Sport Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony, last night told the National Assembly that the government would be focusing on number of developmental projects for 2012 among them the construction of a 25-metre warm-up pool to supplement the 50-m pool currently at Pattensen.

Dr. Anthony made the disclosure in his budget speech to the National Assembly.

Apart from the warm up pool,