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The Minister is being under-served by his Director of Sports

Jul 22, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Looking at the picture in the Sunday Kaieteur (July 19, 2009) allowed me to feel vindicated in my advocacy for the delivery on the contract the Government made with the people in the Sports Sector.
Where are the ‘disgruntled’ now? Their only defence was to get downright low and personal rather than assess the issues I raised constructively? Well thanks to Adam Harris in his column and the Kaieteur News, the world is now aware of the facts?
The Ministry of Youths & Sport has done poor at delivery on its contract with the people in the Sport Sector. There is no swimming pool, no veledrome, no synthetic track, and no sport complexes as per the manifesto promises.
Maybe we should just disband the Office of Director of Sports because the deliverables to date can easily be carried out by any Clerk in the Ministry. The poor Minister is being under serviced by his Director of Sports and something must be done about this poor performance.
Any respectable Head of Department would always emphasise toil and deliverables as the “sine qua non” of prosperity. One of the easiest and better cost effective routes to positioning our image on the world map is through Sports yet, we continue to deny ourselves international public relations prosperity because of our poor support to our Sportsmen and Women.
Guyana cannot raise funds internationally for its hydro project, its Linden to Lethem Road, and its deep water harbour because enough of the right people do not know us.  With world class athletes, every bank director in all the financial institutions of the world knows Jamaica. I was hoping with these investments, they can also get to know Guyana.
Now I hope our Director of Sports Mr. Neil Kumar get the message.  His performance is intertwined with Guyana’s success.
He does a good job and the youths of Guyana have a future, he continues at this rate and the best option for them is migration or crime or in the worst case scenario suicide. I remain convinced that delivering on these Manifesto promises will gave Guyana the transformation shift that it deserves especially in this global recession.
Well as the philosophers says “a picture tells a thousand words”, and four years after this picture tells a thousand stories and I am convinced now that something is wrong.
Sasenarine Singh

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