COMMONWEALTH GAMES FOSTER LASTING UNITY AND FRIENDSHIP ..PM GOLDING

COMMONWEALTH GAMES FOSTER LASTING UNITY AND FRIENDSHIP AMONG THE PEOPLE...PM TELLS CHOGM  SPORTING SESSION:

Prime Minister Bruce Golding   says the Commonwealth Games have held people together not because of a treaty, convention, charter or constitution but because of shared principles and values. He said the Commonwealth games provide an important tool in breaking down barriers and uniting people, because unity at the level of the people is so much more solid than at the level of government.

 Mr Golding was addressing a sports breakfast hosted by Trinidad's Prime Minister Patrick Manning and the President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mike Fennell, as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) resumed this morning in Port-of-Spain. The sports breakfast was used to update the heads on the staging of the 19^th Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi, India October 2010. Outlining the importance of sports to Jamaica at the request of Mr Fennell, the Prime Minister had this to say:

Prime Minister Golding endorsed all of the efforts made by the President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mr Fennell and paid tribute to him for the strong powerful leadership he has provided in building the Commonwealth Games and in ensuring that it continues to grow and expand.  Mr Golding said sports has done so much for Jamaica  that Jamaica will continue to do whatever it can,  to support sports  not only  generally in the Olympics but through the fraternity called the Commonwealth   that has done so much to cement the bonds of friendship  among Commonwealth countries.