Former PNM adviser Anil Roberts has got a handy reward for beating ex-Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira in Monday's general election: he takes office Friday as the country's new Sport and Youth Affairs minister.And he has pledged that he will promptly move to re-open the Wallerfield Auto Sports Facility.
Commenting on his appointment which Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced on Wednesday evening, Roberts said, "It shows that this PM is very serious about sport and youth development in the country.
"She made Sport a number one priority. Never before was a Minister of Sport given an appointment so soon after the swearing in of a Prime Minister. She did it after being named Prime Minister and the naming of an Attorney General, which shows the priority she has given sport."
The former national swimming coach who guided Olympic bronze medallist, George Bovell III, to his title won his D’Abadie/O’Meara seat with 9,541 votes, beating Nunez-Tesheira who received 8,421 votes.
Roberts, 40, was as an advisor to former PNM Sports Minister, Roger Boynes from January 2002 to 2004. He has said publicly that he refused to seek a renewal of his contract because the then Minister of Sport was making promises to the people of T&T and not fulfilling or implementing them.
Roberts advised Boynes against investing in the controversial Taruba stadium.
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