39th Customs Sports Tournament deemed a great success!
This was the first time that the VI had hosted the tournament since becoming official members of the Customs Sports Club and over ten countries including Guyana, Turks and Caicos, St Kitts, Anguilla, Dominica, St Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Antigua and, made up the over 400 participants, took part this year.
The teams descended on the Territory to compete for bragging rights to many different sports, including dominoes, basketball, table tennis, volleyball, cricket, and football just to name a few.
The events kicked off with a grand social gala at the Prospect Reef Court Hall where the sounds of local Dj Push Pop hit the airwaves and officials were able to meet and become aquatinted with their counterparts while others were reacquainted with other brothers and sisters of the fraternity.
However the more formal Opening Gala took place on Thursday night at the Multipurpose Complex where the Premier and Minister of Finance Dr. the Hon. D. Orlando Smith, Minister for Education and Culture Hon. Myron V. Walwyn and Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Wade Smith gave remarks to welcome the attendees and declare the tournament open.
Mrs. Eileen L. Parsons, OBE, was the honorary guest speaker of the evening.
The games officially began on Good Friday on both the A.O. Shirley Grounds and the Greenland Fields with cricket and football. They continued on Saturday with Table tennis and rounders at the A.O. Shirley Grounds while a series of hot games of basketball took place at the Save the Seed Recreational Facility.
Team BVI Customs emerged Champions over Guyana Customs which finished in second place.
Sunday was a fun filled day at Sandbox where the dominoes tournament began with Turks and Caicos dominating from start to finish. The football and dominoes games were concluded on Monday at the Greenland field and the winners were the BVI Customs Team and Turks and Caicos respectively.
The closing ceremony held on Monday Evening was bitter sweet for all countries and many reminisced on the hospitality of the VI people and the taste of the good food at each event, with one representative of the Trinidad team exclaiming “everything good but in BVI it gooda.”
The BVI Customs Management team along with the Sports Club Executive Body thanked Dr the Hon. D Orlando Smith, the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, the BVI Tourist Board and the many sponsors for financially making this event happen despite the challenging economic times.
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