And they have to balance their limited resources between renovating the facilities and providing support for the athletes. Mahler explained that he instructed different associations and federations to provide a structured three-year budget, but most haven't, which makes providing that assistance more difficult.
Anthony Mahler - Minister of Tourism, Youth & Sports
"The situation is from Minister Daly and I took over, we said to ever federation, every association, we want a 3 year plan for competitions internationally for what we're going to do development wise, you can't tell me 2 weeks before a competition that you need $150,000 to take x amount of people. So we want to know, All right, If you're going to compete in 100 meter, Are you running 11 seconds like the last person did? Then why are you going? Because, you know, men are running under nine, I mean, under ten, right? So it's a waste money, it's wasting money, right? So we want to develop from the child moving up into our elite athletes. So this summer, the National Sports Council is going to launch what they call the Super Nationals, right? So for people who don't understand the competitions in Belize, you have primary school competition, you have high school competition, so you have district, then you have nationals and the nationals and the district competitions are just focused on schools. The Super Nationals will be comprised of the best players from every district. And so we want the scouting program to start with this to showcase our best basketball players, our best football players, our best track athletes, and best volleyball players. I think it's going to be, 4 or 5 disciplines in this first instance, and then we will go from there. But we strongly believe in development, and that's where we want to put our focus. But it has to be a planned effort because we don't have a lot of resources. "
