complex has provoked some distress from a neighbouring soccer club that could be forced to vacate their home playing field.

A report, which sets out the preliminary plans for the new complex, is awaiting Parliament's approval.

In the annual report tabled in the House of Assembly last week, Mr. Donald Lines, chairman of the National Sports Centre's board of trustees, outlined how the stadium's development would proceed.

He said the trustees wanted to add two new football fields with a cricket pitch between them, temporary stands for spectators and a multi-purpose sports complex.

This work would be performed in three or more stages which included constructing proper changing rooms, with lockers, showers and toilets, a sports complex, and new spectator stands and storage facilities.

The additional playing fields would be built using some of the Frog Lane land Devonshire Colts currently use.

These plans are at the centre of the club's worry.

Progressive Labour Party MP Mr. Nelson Bascome, who is also the president of the Devonshire Colts football club, said the organisation had no plans to move.

"We've been actively trying to find an alternative site but we have not found anything yet,'' he said.

"We have one of the best youth programmes on the Island and it would be a shame to let it die. We must recognise that we provide an important service to this community.'' Meantime, Youth and Sport Minister the Hon. Pamela Gordon said she was hopeful that actual ground-breaking could begin as early as June, 1995.

The NSC trustees said they would like to start construction on the Frog Lane field once it received planning approval and Devonshire Colts had been relocated.

But Mr. Bascome, while conceding that his club would be prepared to move, said some agreement would have to be reached until a viable alternative within Devonshire was found.

Before any construction can begin, the annual report, which just sets out the trustees' concept for the stadium, has to pass the House of Assembly's scrutiny.

Ms Gordon said she did not expect much activity to take place until the new year because several key people in Government and the civil service were on holiday while others were preparing for the Christmas break.

"One of the things we like most about this proposal is that there is the potential for additions,'' Ms Gordon said. "But if things go smoothly Bermuda could possibly host the Carifta Games in 1997.''