Stadium handing over a work in progress - Haniff
Stabroek News
February 20, 2007
Local Organizing Committee (LOC) marketing manager Richard Hanniff said yesterday that the handing over of the Providence Stadium was not a single event but was actually a work in progress.
"The stadium handing over is a work in progress and not a single event," Haniff said in an invited comment.
Yesterday was the date fixed for the symbolic handing over of the stadium to the authorities but Hanif disclosed that technical structure specialists GL Events has had personnel in Guyana for over a week receiving supplies and getting them organized.
GL Events is a French company contracted by the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 to overlay the new facility for the big event.
"We are setting up temporary structures facilitating stadium preparation and operations," said Paul Linchen, who has worked at almost all the major international sporting events in the last five years with the European company.
"One of our projects is the construction of a large tent that will be erected directly behind the media centre. This facility, when completed, will be outfitted with high-tech apparatus including computers, LED display units, printers, servers, etc, creating a small multi media communications centre," added Linchen who hails from Cambridge in the UK.
Several CWC personnel are currently at the Stadium organizing their various roles and one of them CWC IT Manager Michael Douglas, will work with entities like GL Events in the installation of high-tech infrastructure.
The LOC will still maintain an office with several of its personnel at the stadium during the handing-over process, said Hanif.