I’VE NOTICED that a Mr. Christopher Ram and now Freddie Kissoon are desperately trying to make a mountain out of a molehill about Mr. Anthony Jeremiah not being able to meet Minister Anthony.
As far as I am aware, Mr. Jeremiah is employed by the International Tennis Federation to promote the development of the game in the Caribbean.
The Ministry is aware that Mr. Jeremiah is a regular visitor to Guyana, and on selected occasions would request meetings with the minister and other officials.
On his last visit, the Tennis Association made a request for a meeting; this was arranged, and had to be cancelled because of the minister’s busy schedule. Instead of trying to reschedule the meeting to a mutually convenient time, the Association sent out a press release claiming that they were snubbed.
The media made no attempt to verify the content of the press release, as any objective and independent media should, but proceeded to publish Mr. Ram’s lopsided view on the matter.
It seems that Mr. Ram and friends of his ilk would like to use innocent sports associations to promote their personal and political agendas. It is little wonder that so many of the executives of the Tennis Association have resigned in disgust, because they are fed up with his dictatorial attitude.
This should be cause for concern for the ITF Development Officer, because, with a shrinking executive, the game could be stultified.
Mr. Anthony Jeremiah’s responsibilities as ITF Development Officer would include advising national associations, and assisting in the implementation of projects which form part of the ITF’s Development Programme; evaluating and monitoring the use of the funds and resources allocated to National Associations for various programmes, and the success of these programmes.
I guess we will have to await another press release from Mr. Ram to know how much money the Association has received from the ITF, and how this has been allocated and spent.
Perhaps an explanation would also be in order from Mr. Jeremiah and Mr. Ram as to why Guyana did not receive an ITF/GSDF Facility Grant when countries such as the Turks and Caicos Islands have benefitted.
Or maybe they can explain whether Guyana has benefitted from ITF Equipment distribution programmes.
The simple truth is that very little has been done by Mr. Anthony Jeremiah and Mr. Christopher Ram to develop tennis in Guyana. It seems that to hide their incompetence, they are seeking a scapegoat, and as always, they want to obfuscate the issue.
But the question that must be asked is not whether there was a meeting, but what have these two ‘leaders’ in tennis done for the development of the game?
Perhaps cheerleader Freddie Kissoon might be able to get some answers for us. But as we all know, he is not the least bit interested in the truth, or development; he has a blatant anti-government agenda.
But Freddie, seeing that you into the childish behaviour of labelling people, you call me ‘Baby Mubarak’. Then, as calypso man, ‘Sweet Kendingo’ say, you are nothing but a ‘Counce’.