Boynes: $18m for coaches soon.
By: Juhel Browne (T&T Express).
Sport Minister Roger Boynes says the Cabinet had approved an allocation of $18 million for the payment of coaches of the national football squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Recently, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (T&TFF) announced that they could not access the funds, since they had to supply the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs with certain relevant information.
"What the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs was mandated to do from the Cabinet," Boynes explained, at the post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall, Port of Spain, yesterday, "was to ensure that we have a disbursement schedule outlining exactly what payment is to go for what person. We requested the contracts. We requested all the information in order for us to determine that disbursement schedule, and we have only recently got same".
As for the salary of the national-under 17 coach, Anton Corneal, Boynes said: "...his salary is paid by the Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago, and he has been paid."