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Dear Editor,
I thought this issue with relation to the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) was focused on the senior athletes at the Olympic and World Championship levels respectively. I now noticed that Mr E Jefford has roped in the junior aspect with his KN report dated Sunday, October 2, 2016 and captioned ‘An account of Yassin’s failure at GOA’.
Editors, each one of you can attest to the fact that I have penned articles on Miss K Baird via your respective newspapers in the past, but unfortunately I can’t get to them because they are in storage. I did pen in at least one of my article’s that if the young lady was to gain citizenship of the USA and given the break to represent the flag with sponsorship of corporate America and making the American team, I will support such a move because Guyana is not prepared to undertake the full cost of maintaining the wellbeing of her.
Overseas based athletes are all in a league of their own and are at a greater advantage under their respective clubs with nurturing and I honestly don’t have a clue what level of communication there is with the GOA, National Sports Commission, Athletics Association of Guyana and the Sports Ministry and their overseas counterparts.
Editors, Mr E Jefford and the general public, perhaps we are jumping the gun… Basic common sense knowledge is that the GOA would have to consult with the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) which is headed by Mr Aubrey Hudson on athletics matters.
I am almost sure that the AAG has to rope in the National Sports Commission on such matters, so perhaps a lot of answers lie within the National Sports Commission and the Athletics Association of Guyana… Why haven’t those two offices graced their presence to date via the press for the general public to have a deeper understanding of everyone’s role?
Mr E Jefford, I believe you are still a sitting and senior member of the ‘NATIONAL SPORTS COMMISSION’, which I believe is an arm of the government of the day. Is your representation in the press on behalf of that office? Mr Christopher Jones, Junior Minister of Sport (I think) and Chairman of the ‘NATIONAL SPORTS COMMISSION’ is third in command (I think) after VP Rupert Roopnarine and Senior Minister of Sport, Nicolette Henry, did he sanction your representation?
I will go out on a limb and take a gamble and say that I don’t believe that the GOA handpicks anyone to represent Guyana at the Olympic Games… I believe it’s a collective decision between sports fraternities and the GOA…
Yours faithfully,
T Pemberton