The Fijian Government will continue to provide support towards sports development.
The Permanent Secretary for Youth and Sports Mr. Rovereto Nayacalevu, while officially opening the Raiwaqa Basketball Interlane Championship at Ed’s Court in Suva today, said they’d provide both technical and financial support.
“The Fijian Government recognises that for our nation to reach the pinnacle of success and to maintain a holistic and sustainable growth we must channel substantive and consistent effort on our young people and one way is through sports development,” PS Nayacalevu said.
The Raiwaqa Basketball Players Association is working to revive the sport of basketball in Raiwaqa and organised an inter-lane basketball tournament prior to the inter-lane championship that was opened today.
“Here in Fiji, the game is growing from strength to strength,” Mr Nayacalevu said. “And is fast becoming a first tier sport for our young people as we increasingly see hard courts with hoops appearing around the country.”
With the COVID-19 pandemic still in place, he said it was important that every sport had its own guiding principles set up to ensure we continue to break the chain of transmissions of the virus.