The Gozo Sports Complex in Victoria is undergoing refurbishment and upgrading works, including the setting up of a new reception area with modern furniture and surroundings, the transfer and modernisation of offices from the lower floor to the main entrance, the upgrading of first floor sanitary facilities as well as the setting up of indoor climbing facilities for public use.

Work is being carried out by employees at the same Gozo Sports Complex in an effort to modernise the area and improve services offered while at the same time, make maximum use of existing resources.

Other than having created a friendlier and safer environment, these upgrading works, together with earlier works on the changing rooms, electricity, storage rooms and parquet flooring, also serve to encourage the public to make use of the sports complex facilities more often.

Once these works are concluded, a second phase will then consist of works on the lower floor, including the refurbishment of the sanitary facilities, maintenance works on the roof of the main sports hall and the modernisation of the gym area.

Visiting works in progress, Gozo Minister Giovanna Debono said that the refurbishment work currently under way is intended to improve the quality of the service offered to the public.

Minister Debono referred to the ministry’s commitment in providing quality services to the public and reminded that the government will be adding on to the sport facilities currently on offer in Gozo with a new seven-a-side football pitch adjacent to the sports complex, in the new school that will be built on the site presently occupied by the boys’ secondary school.

Besides being the only large and enclosed space that serves as a venue for social, cultural and commercial events in Gozo, the sports complex is also regularly used by schools to hold school-related events, as well as the annual children’s Carnival in February and Skola Sport.

This year, Skola Sport entered into its eight consecutive season, offering 15 different sports disciplines to a record number of students, introducing two new disciplines, namely Indoor Climbing and Spirit Combat.