The organizers of the Anse Kouanari Sport Event are very pleased with outcome of their sport activity on Easter Monday.
Anse Kouanari Torusim Association (Castle Bruce) and Waraka Events Committee (Atkinson/Kalinago Territory) were zoned together by the Dominica Community Tourism Association to organize and host an event which will improve the island’s tourism product.
The two communities settled on doing a “Sport Event” on Easter Monday. An exciting T20/20 Cricket match between the Kalinago Braves vs Boomers started the event in the morning. However, the match was cancelled due to rain. In the early afternoon, a lively football match between East Central and Kalinago Warriors was played on Sikwi Park, the score was 6/3 in favour of East Central.
The highlight of the event was a bicycle race where the children of the community demonstrated their bicycling riding skills. With Police escorting the happy racers, raced along the bayside road, up on windblow unto the new housing scheme and back for a five lap race. In the end, Donal Augustine was given a special prize for his participation with his “racer bike”. Sherlon Drigo came first in the BMX category, Josh Lockhart was second, Addison Jno-Baptiste came in third.
Volleyball matches were also played by men and women teams. The evening ended with cultural performances by Band A Kayo, Karina Cultural Group and Castle Bruce Adult Bele.
The Anse Kouanari Tourism Association told DNO news that they are satisfied with the outcome of their event and look forward to further enhancing Anse Kouanari Tourism product for the people of Castle Bruce, for Dominica and visitors. The Kalinago name for Castle Bruce is Kouanari and the bay they called Anse Kouanari.
This event was made possible with support from the Government of Dominica , the Ministry of Tourism, Ada Trucking, Cuthbert Joseph, NCCU Castle Bruce Branch, Dominica Solid Waste Management, Petro Caribe, and Dominica Community Tourism Association. Assistance also came from SeaBreeze Inn, Waraka Events Committee, Orma’s Bar, Dominica Umpires Association, The Dominica Football Association, The Dominica Volleyball Association, The Dominica Police Force, vendors and the people of Castle Bruce and Kalinago Territory.
That activity was part of a National Community Tourism Competition organized by the Dominica Community Tourism Association, which seeks to improve Dominica’s Tourism product, to improve communities in term of their cleanliness and landscape and to improve the quality and delivery of services.
The five (5) participating zones in this year’s competition are: Zone A: Castle Bruce / Kalinago Territory, Zone B: Marigot/Woodfordhill, Zone C: Bense/Calibishie, Zone D: Penville/Vielle Case/Thibaud, Zone E: Capuchin/ Toucarie/Tantan.
The Marigot Community hosted their event, which they dubbed “Strickly local” last Saturday.
Below are some photos from the Anse Kouanari Sport Event at Castle Bruce.
As a community, that is how you begin your progress. Take interest in your community and develop programs to bring everyone together. Make your own money and do for yourselves.
O.K. but where were the tourists?
I can see people travelling from far and wide to come to this.
Congratulations to the organizers and to the numero uno village in Dominica.
Great job to the organizers, the event seemed well attended.
The wise people came from the East and this is the best village in Dominica
Did Skerritt and his labor candidate make an appearance? Did he promise a thousand room hotel for the area? Its election season and the promises are coming quickly. They are so outlandish that even Skerritt when he goes home to Melissa say he can’t believe that he said that. Wherever he feels threatened most is where he makes more silly promises. People dont be fooled. If after 20 years he has not been able to deliver on anything to boost the development of the constituency do you think that now his party is morally bankrupt he can deliver in anything? His time is up and he is grasping at anything he believes can fool the people. Dont be fooled. His time is up. He needs to go. Change is a must. Labor MUST go. Welcome UWP to government.
I am not a skerritt supporter or let’s say I do not like his ideology, his manner, his cockiness, and what he is doing to our beautiful country, but to me your statement does not make any sense. I congratulate the organisers of this event. Go back to the days when sports days, donkey derby and such other events were the highlight of the day, the holiday, the activity of the season, not just sewo sewo sewo, where people listen to music that makes no sense and get drunk and fight for no reason, where young girls and women find any excuse to expose their body. Give the children and communities something community building, healthy, and constructive to look forward to. WELL DONE WHOMEVER ORGANISED THE EVENT. There needs to be more like it.
People like you is the cause people always looking down on us Dominicans. An event that was organized and attended by locals you are trying to bring Skerrit in it. I really thought after hurricane Maria some of you would change your ways of thinking. Skerrit is one man he is not Dominica so open your mind and give praise when praise is deserved. This was a community event not a Skerrit event so please don’t make it one. You should have attended and see the look of happiness on the faces of the elders and children.