An indoor complex called SeaPlex will host basketball, table tennis, trapeze instruction and bumper cars.

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Teams from Bath and Bethlehem will play football, netball, basketball and table tennis and also take part in a swimming gala.

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Basketball, table tennis, judo, handball, indoor volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and beach volleyball have all already been given host national places.

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But in 1990, a year when the islands' unemployment rate hit a high of 20%, Antunes -- who has also represented his country at basketball and table tennis -- leapt at the chance to train as an air traffic controller.

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