FISHING: Phuket Municipality in collaboration with the Phuket Fishing Sport Club have announced the 2023 Phuket Fishing Tournament will take place next month.
DAVID SCARLETT FOR the past four years, citizens across TT have had the desire to access their community pools, either for competitive or recreational swimming. However, many pool facilities in the nation have deteriorated due to mismanagement and lack of maintenance. Now, people have something positive to look forward to as the Deputy Permanent Secretary
across maybe as disproportionately heavy on qatar. so to that extent, i agree with ayman. i think you have to be consistent. i think the other thing, it was also interesting to hear him say that the sports coverage of human rights issues and so on would dial down a bit during the tournament. i think that s right, because the point about the bbc is it has a news division and a sport division, and i take the rather old fashioned view that news is good at covering news, sport is good at covering sport. it s actually rather better if they don t intermingle too much, though i think it s also appropriate, you can t start the tournament in qatar without at least some reference to the controversies that have gone on. but as someone who s worked for bbc news and bbc sport, you surely haven t. .. can you think of an example where it s gone about things like this at the beginning of a major international sporting event? i can t. well, i can a bit, actually. i think in beijing in 2008 for the summ
coverage of human rights issues and so on would dial down a bit during the tournament. i think that s right, because the point about the bbc is it has a news division and a sport division, and i take the rather old fashioned view that news is good at covering news, sport is good at covering sport. it s actually rather better if they don t intermingle too much, though i think it s also appropriate, you can t start the tournament in qatar without at least some reference to the controversies that have gone on. but as someone who s worked for bbc news and bbc sport, you surely haven t. .. can you think of an example where it s gone about things like this at the beginning of a major international sporting event? i can t. well, i can a bit, actually. i think in beijing in 2008 for the summer olympics, we made a deliberate decision to put huw edwards onto the commentary and the presentation of the opening ceremony with carrie gracie, who was then a beijing correspondent as one of the expert c
was inconsistent from the bbc. yeah. i saw gary s interview as wise and sensible about the really difficult editorial choices. i think what he also said was that probably bbc sport was disproportionately light on russia and probably on china for the winter olympics, and therefore has come across maybe as disproportionately heavy on qatar. so to that extent, i agree with ayman. i think you have to be consistent. i think the other thing, it was also interesting to hear him say that the sports coverage of human rights issues and so on would dial down a bit during the tournament. i think that s right, because the point about the bbc is it has a news division and a sport division, and i take the rather old fashioned view that news is good at covering news, sport is good at covering sport. it s actually rather better if they don t intermingle too much, though i think it s also appropriate, you can t start the tournament in qatar without at least some reference to the controversies that have