Naz Ya­coob

?Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Anil Roberts will be the fea­ture speak­er at the pre­sen­ta­tion func­tion mark­ing the con­clu­sion of the 2010 crick­et clin­ic of the Mo­hammed's Elec­tri­cal Coach­ing Acad­e­my (MECA) on Sun­day at the Aranguez Sports Club. This sea­son-end­ing event will be the first sig­nif­i­cant oc­ca­sion for MECA since the death of the or­gan­i­sa­tion's founder, Rous­tom Mo­hammed, who passed away a week af­ter the pre­sen­ta­tion func­tion for the 2009 foot­ball clin­ic last De­cem­ber.

Es­tab­lished in 1993, MECA has pro­vid­ed an im­por­tant path­way for the sport­ing de­vel­op­ment of hun­dreds of young­sters in its pri­ma­ry catch­ment area of San Juan and en­vi­rons. Sev­er­al of the grad­u­ates of the crick­et pro­gramme have gone on to age-group and se­nior zon­al and na­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tive lev­el, in­clud­ing Vikash Mo­han, cap­tain of the T&T team that emerged tri­umphant at the West In­dies Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onships two months ago.

While this sea­son's en­roll­ment of stu­dents was re­duced from the pre­vi­ous year, the num­ber of par­tic­i­pants was still in ex­cess of 100, a tes­ta­ment to MECA's rep­u­ta­tion in the com­mu­ni­ty as an ex­cel­lent op­tion for par­ents and guardians seek­ing healthy and pos­i­tive ex­tra-cur­ric­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties for their chil­dren.

Lo­cal gov­ern­ment area rep­re­sen­ta­tive Nazeemool Mo­hammed and for­mer T&T Crick­et Board's CEO Forbes Per­saud, both long­time sup­port­ers of MECA, are al­so ex­pect­ed to at­tend Sun­day's event. The gala func­tion is ex­pect­ed to start at 9 am.