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May 21, 2014 Sports
Dear Editor,
Please allow me space to respond to the article, “Kumar stops Basketball team from training at Cliff Anderson Sport Hall”, Stabroek News, May 15th, 2014.
Firstly no instruction was given to me to stop basketball training on May 14th, 2014.
As is the practice, whenever the Guyana Amateur Basketball Association (G.A.B.A) and the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (G.A.B.F) require the use of the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall for training or competitions, the G.A.B.A or G.A.B.F will request separately.
The G.A.B.A requested and received approval for training on May 12, 13, 14 and 15. After training on May 12 and 13, Mr. Michael Singh, President of G.A.B.A on May 14th advised, via telephone, that because G.A.B.F will, with immediate effect, request the use of the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall for training and competitions, for both bodies, training sessions requested by G.A.B.F for the 14 and 15 are cancelled.
I immediately informed my supervisor, the Admin Officer. Since there was no other activity scheduled for the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall for the day, I secured the facility and left for home.
At 18:00hrs I received a telephone call from Mr. Nigel Hinds, President of G.A.B.F saying that the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall was closed and enquiring why. I advised that from the conversation between Mr. Singh and myself, there was no reason why the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall should not be closed. Mr. Hinds then indicated to me that the G.A.B.A’s President cannot make such a decision as the responsibility for making requests is that of G.A.B.F.
Subsequently, the Director of Sport, Mr. Neil Kumar called and advised that the basketball players be allowed to train.
I immediately instructed the security guard to allow the basketball players to have access for training. I arrived at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall at approximately 19:05hrs where training was in progress and the media inside the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall.
Since then, training and competitions are going on without any hindrance.
I was later informed by the Director of Sport that he had no meeting with either Mr. Singh or Mr. Hinds on May 13, 2014 as he was attending a Caricom Meeting at the International Conference Centre during the entire day.
Once again, I must set the record straight that no instruction was issued to me by either of my supervising officers to close the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall to training sessions organized by G.A.B.A and subsequently taken over by G.A.B.F.
I honestly hope that after reading this article, there will be a true understanding of what actually took place at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall on the evening of May 14, 2014.
Bashur A. Khan
Superintendent
Cliff Anderson Sport Hall
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