U-15s, Central FC, Malabar FC and MoS questions.
Now, please do not quote me on the figures. Hoping some local based poster can investigate and help clear this up.
I have a few questions.
1. Every Pro team with the exception of Central FC, gets $85,000 dollars a month. So the League is in fact a Government League? And why isn't Central FC getting and money, isn't this a personal vendetta against them? Isn't Central FC helping the employment rate and crime rate in T&T by having a Pro Team, don't they play a part in society.
2. Malabar FC gets over $140,000 dollars a month from the government. Now how can a Super League outfit get more money than a Pro League team? And doesn't the government query how money is being spent, how and where?
3. I also heard that Malabar FC Women's team has foreign players playing for them. Where did they get the money to pay these players?
4. Now that the Under 15 national boys team fiasco's is over, whats next? what actions/exposure can be taken against the Minister of Sports and his staff, particularly Ashwin Creed? Why isn't someone in T&T trying to expose the MoS flaws. Is this issue dead? The Trinidad and Tobago under-15 team became the first national football side in our history to forfeit a CONCACAF competition. How can one sport get millions without question and none for the other. Only the national under-17 team, which was captained by Creed’s nephew, Brendon Creed, did not have major funding issues.
5. I saw that T&T hockey men's team got its best ever medal in the PanAmerican Cup in 46 years. The Sport Ministry was so late in providing funding for the team's trip to Canada that only half the team got to Toronto in time. It took an extraordinarily generous gesture by the International Hockey Federation (IHF), which postponed Trinidad and Tobago's first match by two days, to allow the “Calypso Stickmen” to compete at all. And, while work continues on the $193 million George Bovell III Aquatic Centre in Couva, the National Hockey Centre in Tacarigua has become so dangerous that at least two clubs refused to finish their fixtures this season out of fear for its players’ safety on the mossy surface - Lasana Liburd.
6. I heard that the team that got us to the Gold Cup hasn't been paid as yet? Same for staff? And in the same measure paid Nicki Minaj $382,000 and she continues to disrespect T&T. Mind you $60,000 for hotel rooms at the local Hilton. Other expenses included $150,000 on advertising, $75,000 on the venue, $32,000 to the Copyright Organization of Trinidad and Tobago, $40,000 on other artists, and $26,000 for cultural acts. Furthermore, how can money go to the LifeSport programme, which is run entirely by the Sport Ministry?
7. Is the Manny Ramjohn and Larry Gomes Stadiums fixed? I heard it was supposed to be finished a week ago in time for the new Pro League season? Is the league putting pressure on them, doesn't anyone care?
8. Trinidad and Tobago has also withdrawn from the 2013 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in Medellin, Colombia which started earlier this month. The National Amateur Athletics Association (NAAA) claimed that a request for funding was sent to the Sport Ministry two months ago but was rejected due to a supposed shortage of funds.
Its amazing that the entire T&T public/media could sit and do nothing, not even question all is unaccountability, its not wonder we get treated like this.
