In a major announcement that elevates one of the Caribbean nation’s most ambitious sporting infrastructure investments, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has confirmed that cabinet has approved expanding the planned Pointe Round synthetic track and field facility to include a full Olympic-sized swimming pool and its supporting amenities.
Skerrit shared details of the revised project during a recent press briefing, clarifying the split of responsibilities for the development. Global governing body World Athletics has already pledged full support to deliver the certified athletics track surface, covering critical stages from engineering surveys and design work to procurement and construction contracting. The Dominican government, meanwhile, is tasked with preparing the building site, including grading and land preparation, as well as funding and delivering all supporting auxiliary infrastructure for the facility.
“Originally, our plan centered on delivering a world-class Class 1 certified track and field facility, but cabinet made the decision to broaden the project’s scope to turn this site into a comprehensive, multi-use sports hub,” Skerrit explained. “Alongside the track, we will now add an Olympic-sized swimming pool with all required accompanying amenities, from changing facilities to spectator stands and restroom infrastructure. This will not just be a track facility – it will be a complete sports complex that serves athletes across multiple disciplines for generations.”
The expanded development comes on the heels of a landmark win for Dominican athletics: in December 2025, the Dominica Athletics Association (DAA) officially confirmed the island had been selected as a beneficiary of World Athletics’ Project 10 initiative, a global program designed to deliver world-class certified track facilities to emerging sporting nations. The selection followed two years of intensive planning, stakeholder consultations, and rigorous technical evaluations, a milestone the DAA has called transformative for the country’s sporting community. Land for the complex has already been secured in the Pointe Round area of Portsmouth, with initial site preparations already underway.
Project 10 is made possible through a partnership between World Athletics and the Qatar Olympic Committee, which provides funding and technical backing for new athletics infrastructure across targeted developing nations. In addition to the Pointe Round development, Skerrit also updated the public on ongoing upgrade works at the island’s existing Windsor Park Sports Stadium, reporting that visible progress is already being made on the installation of a new modern lighting system to support evening events and training.