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Press Release- NGC Sponsors Local and Regional Games | |||||
The National Gas Company of
Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) continues to
support excellence in sport both regionally and
locally, through its sponsorships of the
recently-completed CARIFTA Games and the
District Zonal Games in several Educational
Districts in Trinidad and Tobago. The 38th CARIFTA Games, which were held in St. Lucia over the Easter Weekend, brought together athletes of US$50,000 (TT$300,000) per year is sizeable as there are only two major regional sponsors of which NGC is one. NGC has been sponsoring the CARIFTA Games since 2003 when Trinidad and Tobago was host. The Company has an agreement with North America, central America, Caribbean Area (NACAC) an the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) regarding the terms of the sponsorship. This contract is up for renewal in 2011 This ceremony and tour signified the Closing of the BUD Project. The golden weld (final weld) was done in February on this 66-kilometre, 36-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline at Rustville, Guayaguayare. The pipeline will transport natural gas from the Cassia B platform to Beachfield, Guayaguayare. |
As a company which has chosen Youth Development as one of our focus areas of its philanthrophy programme, NGC sees its support to the CARIFTA Games and the Zonal Games as a natural extension to its signature Right on Track Coaching Caravan - the brainchild of Trinidad and Tobago's only Olympic Gold Medalists and NGC's Community Relations Head, Hasely Crawford. NGC's Right on Tack seeks to bridge the significant gap in Track and Field development by teaching sound athletic skills through a sciene-based methodology. April 24, 2009 |