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Apr 20, 2016 Sports
Georgetown, Guyana – Minister of Education, with the responsibility for sport Dr. Rupert Roopnarine
has confirmed yesterday that Guyana will be hosting the finals of the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament.
Roopnarine, it has been reported, was heading into the Government’s Cabinet weekly meeting. The details surrounding the arrangements is expected to be officially be made public shortly.
Efforts were made to contact several senior officials here to get information on the deal, but they were unavailable for comment. However, Director of Sport Christopher Jones returned our call and confirmed that Guyana would be hosting the final four but referred other queries to Permanent Secretary Alfred King.
When contacted King informed that the agreement involves a three year deal with the final being hosted here. He could not give figures because the matter was still being ironed out at the Cabinet level, but the cost to host the tournament will get progressively lesser as the time elapses. A full statement is anticipated this week.
In a recent report in the T&T Guardian newspaper, it was disclosed that, ‘After much speculation as to where the finals of the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament will take place, news coming to hand is that it will go South to Guyana this time around.
Guardian Media was reliably informed that the government of Guyana has outdone the governments of T&T and Barbados in a three-way bid to host the finals on August 7. Guyana will also host both semi-finals which will take place at Providence Stadium.
According to a source close to the Guyana government, the deal has been struck and it will be made public in a few days time. The source did not give particulars about the agreement between the parties, but the CPL organizers were asking for US$4.5M (G$932.4million) for the award of the final-four.
It will be the first time that the finals will be hosted in Guyana, as the three previous finals took place in T&T (2) and St. Kitts. Last year, the Trinidad and Tobago government invested US$2.5 million and there was massive interest and sold out crowds for the matches for the final which was won by the local Red Steel team (now renamed the Trinbago Knight Riders), which beat Barbados Tridents in the final at the Queen’s Park Oval.’ (Additional reporting from the: guardian.co.tt)
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