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Education Minister receives 3,000 tickets for K&S opening from Bakewell

Dec 10, 2010 Sports

It is said that our youth is our future and yesterday the Kashif and Shanghai Organization in collaboration with prominent business entity Bakewell Bakery contributed to provide 3000 secondary school children the opportunity of witnessing free of charge, the opening ceremony of the 2010 K& S football competition and the two exhibition matches to be played at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence on Sunday.
Minister of Education Shaik Baskh yesterday collected the tickets from Naeem Nasir, the CEO of Bakewell Bakery who purchased the tickets for the students.
Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major (one half of the two man promotion K&S Organisation) along with Rajin Ganga, Bakewell’s General Manager and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education Pulander Kandhi were also present at the Ministry of Education on Brickdam yesterday morning as K & S continued to ‘give back’ to the community in various ways through their eagerly anticipated mega football event.
Apart the march past of teams, the National under-20 side will collide with Linden U-23 combination in the opening game before the K&S All-Stars battle Alethico Roraima from Brazil in what should be a pulsating affair.
Bakewell is no stranger to local football. The Company has sponsored of the Bakewell top 20 team for over a decade and more recently they have also been sponsoring the Bakewell Buxton Football team. Both of their teams will be vying for supremacy in the 20-team tournament.
“Sports is an integral part of human development, especially amongst the youths and for the past 15 years, we have been associated with the Kashif and Shanghai tournament, while this is the third year we are giving school children across Guyana the opportunity to be a part of this tournament,” stated Nasir.
Baksh informed that sports play an integral role in youth development after collecting the tickets, adding that students from all over Guyana will be given the tickets to be at the Stadium on Sunday.
“I believe that sports should be promoted within the schools today, especially football which will be done in the same elaborate manner as cricket next year, since I have had this discussion with the National Sports Commission and hopefully, the Kashif and Shanghai Organization can come on board and assist with the organizing of same” said Minister Baksh.
The tournament, easily the best organized and biggest football competition in Guyana, began as small activity for the Christmas holidays in Linden 21 years ago and now involves the country’s top sides along with overseas teams.
Western Tigers defeated Alpha United in last year’s final at the Stadium and the 2010 tournament will again conclude with the Final at the Stadium on the first day of next year. It was disclosed yesterday that Children under 12 will be admitted free of charge for all of the matches. (Sean Devers)

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