Nadaleen Singh

Gov­ern­ment is ex­pect­ed to make an an­nounce­ment at the con­clu­sion of the Olympic Games in Lon­don, Eng­land, on what would be fit­ting re­wards for T&T ath­letes said Min­is­ter of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Ja­mal Mo­hammed yes­ter­day. He was speak­ing at the week­ly post-Cab­i­net news con­fer­ence at the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, St Clair. Mo­hammed said Cab­i­net had pre­lim­i­nary dis­cus­sions on the is­sue. He added: "At the end of Olympics we shall have a more sub­stan­tial an­nounce­ment. We are all very ex­cit­ed about the per­for­mance of the T&T rep­re­sen­ta­tives, of all the as­pects of the Olympics this year. "They have been ex­cel­lent rep­re­sent­ing our coun­try. I am very proud of their achieve­ments."

He added the Gov­ern­ment would con­tin­ue to look at the progress of the ath­letes as the Olympics wind down this week­end. He said: "We con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor all of the ath­letes at the Olympic Games. We are in­deed very de­light­ed with the pos­i­tive re­sults we have been re­ceiv­ing from our ath­letes who are rep­re­sent­ing T&T. "We have one medal and we are still in a po­si­tion to gain oth­er medals be­fore the Games comes to a con­clu­sion over the week­end." He urged T&T to be sup­port­ive of the ath­letes. He said: "The best form of trib­utes you can pay to our ath­letes who are rep­re­sent­ing T&T is to make sure they are in a po­si­tion to be on top of their game and at the peak of their ca­pa­bil­i­ties for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero."We have to lend sup­port, not on­ly from the Gov­ern­ment but from the peo­ple of T&T to ral­ly be­hind these ath­letes." He re­it­er­at­ed that the Gov­ern­ment was very proud of the T&T rep­re­sen­ta­tives. "We con­grat­u­late and salute them and we are very hap­py with the progress they have made in the Olympics so far," he said. Mo­hammed al­so ac­knowl­edged Us­ain Bolt's ac­com­plish­ments, say­ing: "We have to con­grat­u­late Mr Us­ain Bolt. He is the first ath­lete from any­where in the world to bring the 100 and 200 me­ters in suc­ces­sive Olympic Games. That is in­deed a great achieve­ment."