Government have said announcements on developing the National Sports Centre, including adding a swimming pool, will be made very shortly.

Before the election Premier Ewart Brown pledged the NSC would be finished by 2011 - if he stayed in power that long.

But nothing was put aside in last month's Budget for the project.

Asked about that project, Sports Minister Elvin James said on Wednesday: "You will hear something very shortly on that. We are working on something. We have our final meeting tomorrow, then we will say something."

Probed on whether it would just involve a swimming pool, James said: "No, it will involve a lot of things."

And Premier Brown told The Royal Gazette: "When we say finish it, the commitment was not to finish it according to any particular plan. Minister James will be speaking with the media, I think sometime in the next week about specifics.

"But we will finish the stadium - the next phase of it - in 2011. I don't want to get too detailed but it will include the swimming pool."

Concerns have also been raised about the slow progress at Admiralty House as a boxing venue after Government pledged it would be developed.

Earlier this year Olympic bronze medallist boxer Clarence Hill accused Government of dragging its feet on plans to upgrade boxing facilities at the Spanish Point venue after making promises two years' ago.

This week boxer Teresa Perozzi has been training in New Jersey to get accustomed to a larger ring, similar to what she will face when she takes on world champ Natasha Ragosina in Germany later this month, because Bermuda does not have a venue large enough.

Probed about the progress James told The Royal Gazette: "We have some plans afoot right now, we will make an announcement very shortly - as soon as the Budget is done and we know how our money is going to be spent.

"We have some good plans. But I don't want to pre-empt anyone."