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Officials tight-lipped on disappearance of equipment from Sports Hall
By Edison Jefford
Officials remained tight-lipped yesterday on the supposed disappearance of sports equipment from the
Neil Kumar
Cliff Anderson Sports Hall following a disclosure that millions in paraphernalia had gone missing in a post-election clean up exercise.
Efforts to contact Manager of the Sports Hall, Bashur Khan yesterday to confirm reports that Director of Sport, Neil Kumar removed equipment from the facility proved futile. Khan had enforced ad hoc policies on behalf of Kumar in the past.
An electronic media outlet also attempted to interview Khan yesterday and was told that they have to speak with Administrative Officer at the National Sports Commission (NSC), Gervy Harry on the matter.
When Harry was contacted, Harry directed the media house to the Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Alfred King, who did not comment. However, there was noticeable absence of the equipment from a storage room.
Last year in the height of Guyana’s national male basketball team preparation for the Caribbean Championships in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, they were locked out of the facility. Kaieteur Sport had written then about a storage area at the Sports Hall that Kumar stores sports equipment and treats as his personal space.
This newspaper had questioned his use of the facility as it is his own. Bashur with instructions from Kumar had also allotted space in the facility seemingly permanently to Youth Basketball Guyana, which Chris Bowman heads.
Then, there was the infamous use of the facility as an abattoir to kill goats to facilitate Kumar’s son wedding.
Bashur Khan
Khan was pictured carrying out the goat-killing exercise at the Sports Hall and just recently, he turned off the lights on the practice session of the national female basketball team at the Sports Hall.
Those among many other discrepancies highlighted Kumar’s management of the Sports Hall after he assumed the role of Director of Sport following elections in 1992 when the People’s Progressive Party came to power.
Kumar’s apparent move to clean out the venue came in the height of the advent of the new A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change Government following General and Regional elections on May 11. A source inside the NSC told Kaieteur Sport that Kumar had told them not to visit the Homestretch Avenue Office during last week.
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