Organisers seek to correct glitches ahead of semi-finals

After earning accolades for a well organised first leg of the World Cup, the organising committee here is seeking to correct a few glitches ahead of the first semi-final on April 24.

"What we're going to do is work on Sabina Park to correct some of the defects in the construction, because there are some issues there. That is the main concentration because most of the other systems worked very well," Robert Bryan, executive director of the Local Organising Committee (LOC), was quoted as saying by the Jamaican Observer.

Bryan and his team have been lauded for the successful staging of the opening ceremony and six first-round group matches, despite a few glitches at the start of the tournament.

Despite the kudos, however, Bryan said the LOC would be working assiduously to correct some minor defects ahead of the first semi-final.

"In the construction you have issues that relate to plumbing. It's behind-the-scene stuffs that the public would hardly notice," he said.

"It's really through construction defects, because every time you do a major construction like that, everything is not going to work from the word 'go'.

"We had a chance to test it... they worked pretty well, but were not perfect. So what we're going to do is to focus on that," said Bryan.

During the staging of the six matches that included host nation the West Indies, Pakistan, Ireland and Zimbabwe, instruments that were put in place to accommodate free movement of people worked extremely well.

These included the park and walk, and park and ride shuttle service, as well as movement to and from the stadium and adequate security personnel strategically placed in and around the venue.

But there are some other areas, which went unnoticed by the general public that needs tidying up, said Bryan.

"We had some problems with the turnstiles, which seems to have had some power problems. So we are going to take a look at that and try and sort out whatever those power issues were.

"Because every now and again the turnstiles themselves started malfunctioning - it never created any major problems, but I still think we just want to get those systems working perfectly," Bryan said. (IANS)

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