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As the Ulric Buggy Haynes Recreation Ground in Tacarigua has been plagued by a faulty lighting system which clubs say has not been working for a long time...

As a result of the malfaunctioning lights, sporting activity at the ground which is named after a former national football captain has come to a grinding halt...

Vinod Narwani tells us more...
Transcript
00:00 This elderly gentleman who is seated is former National Football Captain Ulrich Buggy Haynes.
00:06 Next to him is his colleague Egan Bazzi.
00:08 And this is the ground name after the former player known as the Ulrich Buggy Haynes Recreation Ground.
00:14 Everything seems to be hunky-dory while looking at this image of the facility.
00:18 The sad part is that the floodlights are not working which is a major handicap.
00:22 That's because the site is also the home of the Buggy Haynes Coaching School
00:26 which consists of three disciplines - cricket, football and track and field.
00:30 According to Bazzi who is a cricket coach, a groundsman and also the secretary of the coaching school,
00:36 the situation is quite painful.
00:38 The lights got vandalised just going into about three years now.
00:44 The all six cables that run from the transformer to the kiosk, cut it right off.
00:56 And five of the armour cables that carry the electricity to the lights, five out of the six.
01:03 Haynes sees sport as being extremely important for a healthy lifestyle.
01:07 And without the lighting system, many have been badly affected.
01:11 The consequences of we not having the lights is that the Kiepford people who do cross training,
01:21 they cannot carry out their programme anymore.
01:24 The hockey people have to leave early, the track and field people also.
01:30 The cricketers, most of the cricketers, the senior ones, we train in the night.
01:37 And we cannot train in the night anymore.
01:41 Now these lights were strategically placed to go onto the cricket pitch.
01:47 Bazzi took TV6 on a mini tour with images of wires that were cut on display.
01:53 And he's making a plea to the higher authorities to address the matter.
01:57 We went to Mr Marvin Gonzal, the Minister of Public Utility,
02:03 about three to four times to have a meeting with him to get him to repair the lights.
02:13 But we haven't been able to see him as yet.
02:17 Up till this day, Bazzi does not know what's the reason behind vandalising the property.
02:22 Having said that, he can only speculate things.
02:25 One of the motive was probably money or the love of it
02:30 because it happened at a time when copper was being stolen all over the island, right,
02:39 from the cables on them. So that's one possibility.
02:43 Another one is that it could just be sabotaged because the way that the cable were cut
02:50 and the armour cable, the armour cable, you're not going to get any copper from it.
02:57 But you still cut it, right? So I would say that that's another possibility.
03:03 People with their evil agenda.
03:06 The coaching school secretary sees it as a huge disrespect to the man after whom the ground was named.
03:12 But Bazzi and Haynes have one major wish. Let there be light.
03:17 Vinod Nawani, TV6 Sport.
03:19 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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