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Cudjoe calls out delinquent NGBs

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Shaliza Hassanali
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Sport Minister Shamfa Cudjoe during her response to the budget in parliament, yesterday. At, right, giving her encouragement is Minister in the Office of the Attorney General & Legal Affairs Fitzgerald Hinds.

Sport Minister Shamfa Cudjoe during her response to the budget in parliament, yesterday. At, right, giving her encouragement is Minister in the Office of the Attorney General & Legal Affairs Fitzgerald Hinds.

NICOLE DRAYTON

SHAL­IZA HAS­SANALI

shal­iza.has­sanali@guardian.co.tt

Sports Min­is­ter Sham­fa Cud­joe yes­ter­day de­scribed as “rude” moves by Na­tion­al Gov­ern­ing Bod­ies (NG­Bs) which have been re­fus­ing to sub­mit on time their fi­nan­cials, bud­gets and sched­ules for ath­letes to be processed by the min­istry for re­gion­al qual­i­fiers and in­ter­na­tion­al games.

Cud­joe raised the is­sue dur­ing her con­tri­bu­tion to the bud­get de­bate in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day.

In rolling out the min­istry’s 2019 sport­ing plans, projects and poli­cies, Min­is­ter Cud­joe proud­ly boast­ed that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gov­ern­ment had dis­trib­uted over $5.2 mil­lion to ath­letes for their crown­ing ac­com­plish­ments in the sport­ing are­na.

“It is very im­por­tant for me to place on the record and to re­mind NG­Bs (Na­tion­al Gov­ern­ing Bod­ies) that it is crit­i­cal that they com­ply with the rules and guide­lines of the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, as it re­lates to sub­mit­ting their fi­nan­cial, their sched­ules, their cal­en­dar of events and so on, so that these ap­pli­ca­tions could be processed and we could re­al­ly fa­cil­i­tate this ini­tia­tive of pro­vid­ing them with the nec­es­sary sup­port to at­tend these re­gion­al qual­i­fiers and in­ter­na­tion­al games.”

She said it was un­for­tu­nate that a num­ber of NG­Bs over the years have adopt­ed a prac­tice of sub­mit­ting their nec­es­sary doc­u­men­ta­tion days be­fore they trav­el to re­ceive fund­ing, ex­pect­ing the min­istry to come up with the mon­ey and place it in their hands.

Cud­joe said she ob­served all kinds of "tac­tics" on Face­book videos, par­ents writ­ing let­ters to me­dia re­lease be­ing is­sued when fund­ing was not giv­en on time, stat­ing that such a prac­tice was un­ac­cept­able

“It must be stopped. It is un­fair. It is un­eth­i­cal. It is self­ish and I want to al­so say Madame Speak­er… it is rude.”

The min­is­ter ex­plained that when a sport­ing en­ti­ty comes in the mid­dle of the fis­cal year, the min­istry has to make a de­ci­sion to put on the back burn­er an en­ti­ty that would have sub­mit­ted its pa­per works since the be­gin­ning of the fis­cal year for which they would have al­ready bud­get­ed.

“So when you wait two weeks be­fore the time to trav­el to now sub­mit a doc­u­ment and then cry in the me­dia… it puts us in a very un­for­tu­nate po­si­tion. I want to re­mind NBGs to sub­mit their doc­u­ments on time.”

Last month the Min­istry of Sports was called up­on at the last minute to fund the na­tion­al women's vol­ley­ball team par­tic­i­pa­tion to the FIVB World Cham­pi­onship which con­clud­ed in Japan last week and the se­nior women's foot­ball team which is cur­rent­ly en­gaged in the CON­CACAG Qual­i­fies for the 2019 FI­FA Wold Cup in France.

Cud­joe said in the month of Au­gust the min­istry to­geth­er with SporTT wrote to over 50 NBGs ask­ing them to sub­mit their doc­u­ments and bud­gets in a time­ly fash­ion, but un­for­tu­nate­ly “un­der ten NBGs would have re­spond­ed.”


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