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Andrews says she stayed in BVI to support male team
By Edison Jefford
National senior basketball player, Kean Andrews has indicated that she stayed in Tortola, British Virgin Islands,
Kean Andrews
following the completion of the Women’s category of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships, to support the male team.
The CBC Women’s Final was played last Saturday night with Bahamas winning against Jamaica. Guyana returned home without Andrews that same day after their winless campaign. Contacted yesterday in the BVI, Andrews said she stayed back to support Guyana in the ongoing Men’s Championship.
“Yes, I did decide to stay in the BVI to simply to watch and support our male team; I paid, and extended my visa and bought a return ticket to Guyana with permission of the BVI Immigration authorities,” Andrews said yesterday.
She said she wanted to give the male team “some support” when asked if it was her choice to stay. “Yes it was my choice indeed, and it was simply to give the male team some support as I could have afforded to, as I said if I had known there were rules against it, I would not have,” she indicated.
Efforts to contact President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) proved futile yesterday. But another section of the print media reported Hinds as saying that Andrews perhaps breached the stipulated regulations.
As a result, Hinds said that Andrews could possibly face some kind of disciplinary action once all the facts are gathered. Earlier in the article, he had said that he has not received all the facts, but the entire team was expected to return to Guyana.
Andrews is challenging that position, stating that she was not aware of any stipulation that bars her from staying in Tortola to support the male team. “I also wasn’t aware of no team stipulated regulations, or else I would have followed them,” she said.
“I am making my side clear; I really don’t know the reason for Mr Hinds blowing this thing out of proportion like this. I had also tried to inform Nigel, but he wouldn’t hear me out, all he said it would have been too expensive for me,” the forward added.
According to Andrews, she was apprised of what was happening here with her remaining in BVI via a photograph of the story that was sent to her on social media. She said she felt humiliated on receipt of the information.
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