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Letter to the Sports Editor…Kashif & Shanghai responds to Kaieteur News Article of Thursday November 7, 2013

Nov 10, 2013 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
Please permit me space in your print or electronic media publication to respond on behalf of the Kashif & Shanghai Organisation out of respect to all other Secondary Schools being omitted from this year’s tournament.
As is often the case with many startup projects, we anticipate that our current adventure into a football tournament for Secondary Schools will probably not get off to a perfect start. It was much the same with the previous tournament. It crept before it walked. Over time, however, we refined our organisational procedures. Eventually the tournament became a memorable national event.
This time around we expect that there will be organisational glitches at the startup stage. There will be times when we will have to take it on the chin.
An article was published in the Thursday November 7th issue of the Kaieteur News even as we were reflecting on the planning for the forthcoming Schools tournament. Our disclosures regarding the rules of the tournament were limited. Those limitations may have given rise to a measure of public comment.
Our articulation of the rules governing participation in the tournament may not have been sufficiently clear to cause the New Amsterdam Technical Institute to understand that as a Vocational Institute rather than a Secondary School it cannot participate in the event. For the record, the event is limited to Secondary school participation.
Other bona fide Secondary Schools have been left out of the tournament. The case of the Santa Rosa Secondary School is an example. This school has met all of the criteria for participation. Its exclusion has to do with the costs associated with bringing the team to Georgetown. After the final twenty four (24) teams had been selected we received an intervention to the effect that the Santa Rosa team was prepared to finance its own transportation. It was of course too late to fit that team into the fixtures. To do so we would have had to increase participation levels to thirty two (32) teams, a decision that would have had significant financial implications.
In cases where other teams from the interior regions of Guyana may have been left out of the tournament, we feel particularly regretful. We can do no more than express that regret and commit ourselves to striving for more fulsome participation in the future. No shortcoming has been a function of any deliberate act designed to insult or offend anyone.
It is not unlikely that there may be other administrative slippages. That is the nature of this business. The assurance that we would wish to give to the other stakeholders in this event, the Ministry of Education, the various Secondary Schools, the players and the parents, is that we will strive to be worthy of the confidence that has been vested in us.
Kashif Muhammad

 

 

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