Although youngsters had been shooting on the new hoops all afternoon, Education and Culture Minister Myron Walywn gripped a basketball tightly in his hands, dribbled toward the backboard, and sunk a ceremonial “first shot” on the new basketball court at Greenland Park last Thursday evening, marking the park’s opening after being closed for nearly five years.
“It has been a very long road to get to where we are today,” said Dr. Marcia Potter, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Culture. “There were many humps and bumps along the way, but we have persevered and we are happy to be able now to return the field to the people of the seventh and eighth districts, and indeed, the entire Virgin Islands.”
Attendees of Thursday’s ceremony spilled out from a tent near the sidelines of a new softball field that is also designed for other sports and heard from several public officials.
The speeches were broken up by a vocal performance from students of the Willard Wheatley Primary School and later, a song break by a group of ukulele-strumming students from the Francis Lettsome Primary School.
See the Nov. 1, 2012 edition for full coverage.
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