Shallow: CWI promises gender equality

Gen­der equal­i­ty will be ad­dressed by Crick­et West In­dies dur­ing its tenure ac­cord­ing to the vice-pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low, who at­tend­ed the Sco­tia­bank Kid­dies crick­et prize-giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny that was held at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba on Thurs­day.

Shal­low said: "We have been quite bi­ased in se­nior male crick­et and we be­lieve the on­ly way to move for­ward is to bring equal­i­ty to the sit­u­a­tion in terms of our women crick­eters. This is some­thing we are ad­dress­ing and we are not tak­ing light­ly."

Shal­low was high in praise for Sco­tia­bank which has made a sig­nif­i­cant in­vest­ment in­to youth crick­et. "You have touched the lives of 25,000 youths in T&T and a to­tal of 230,000 in the re­gion and we are very grate­ful for this. I al­so want to con­grat­u­late Az­im (Az­im Bas­sarath) my close com­rade for yet an­oth­er suc­cess as we all work to­geth­er to take the crick­et for­ward in this re­gion.

The lo­cal di­rec­tor of the pro­gramme Ku­mar Ram­pat who was the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Ter­ri­to­r­i­al De­vel­op­ment Of­fi­cer up un­til last year said that the pro­gramme was a tremen­dous suc­cess. "I have been in charge of this pro­gramme for the last 20 years and it is time for me to move on but what I can tell you is that this year it was very good. Un­equiv­o­cal­ly, I lay claim that the Sco­tia­bank Kid­dy Crick­et T&T Edi­tion, is the on­ly true ed­u­ca­tion­al de­vel­op­men­tal sport­ing ini­tia­tive un­der­tak­en any­where in the Caribbean. As is a well-known fact by now, this pro­gramme caters to the tech­ni­cal, so­cial, emo­tion­al, in­tel­lec­tu­al and spir­i­tu­al el­e­ments in the life of each par­tic­i­pant. I am very hap­py with the re­sults that this pro­gramme has brought for­ward, one of the shin­ing ex­am­ples be­ing West In­dies fast bowler Shan­non Gabriel."

San Fran­cique Pres­by­ter­ian again came out on top as they were vot­ed the win­ner of the Class­room el­e­ment for the fifth con­sec­u­tive year. Their coach Bran­don Ram­lal al­so copped the Top-Co­or­di­na­tor award for his ser­vice to the youths.