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Greene makes pitch for $50M facility

Sep 29, 2010 Sports

– GTTA wishes Commonwealth team well

By Edison Jefford
President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Henry Greene made a pitch Monday night for a $50M modern table tennis facility when the Commonwealth Games team received the blessings of the association with financial incentives.
Greene told the media at the Police Officers’ Mess at Eve Leary that the association is interested in its independent table tennis facility, which has already engaged the attention of the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony last Friday.
He said that a plot of land at the Racquet Centre, which has already begun to take shape with the lawn tennis and badminton courts already under construction at Wolford Avenue, will be handed to the GTTA for the building of a modern table tennis facility.
The association’s new President, who is also the Commissioner of Police, related that a ballpark figure of $50M is the estimated cost to construct the centre that will be equipped with rooms, an office area and cafeteria among other necessary facilities.
The main purpose of Monday night’s forum was to hand over the various incentives to the local table tennis players that will be representing Guyana at the Commonwealth Games. Those were the seasoned, Christopher Franklin and Idinho Lewis.
The two players will join United States-based Paul David and Idi Lewis at the Games. Greene, at the helm of the association, continued his tradition of dolling out cash incentives to the players as he handed over sums of monies to Franklin and Lewis.
The two cadet players, Jamaal Duff and Chelsea Edghill, who will compete at the upcoming Pan American Cadet Championships, were also introduced. Coach Lisa Lewis, who was instrumental in Edghill’s Caribbean U-13 gold medal, will accompany them.
Greene, who more or less reported on the meeting that was held, last Friday with Anthony, stated that with the progress that they are making on the competitive and administrative fronts, it would be safe to conclude that “table tennis is in good hands”.
He informed that they have decided on a distribution criterion for the 25 table tennis boards that were part of the three-year sponsorship deal with India-based, STAG. Greene, following a query from this newspaper, assured the process will be transparent.
The competition tables will be distributed across Guyana to schools that were already actively in the sport so that the distribution is decentralised. It was revealed that the process forms part of an inclusive decentralisation procedure for table tennis.
He said that there will be important clauses in a Memorandum of Understanding between GTTA and the sports ministry that will aid in the development of table tennis from the facility at what is being called the Racquet Centre to the decentralisation programme.

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