Do you think it's sniffing too much PNM fairy dust that's responsible for Gary's bafflingly sour reaction to the success of the Trinidad and Tobago cricket team in the Champions League Final? Here, go ahead and read the nonsense the sport minister man saying while our team is making Trinidad and Tobago famous all over the world, and not for murder or kidnapping mind you!
Sport Minister: No reward contemplated for team
The Trinidad Guardian
Published: 25 Oct 2009
Anika Gumbs-Sandiford
No award has been “contemplated” for the Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team for its prowess at the just concluded 2009 championships League Twenty20 cricket tournament in Hyderabad, India. Though having lost the final, their only defeat of the tournament, the team walked away with US$1.3 million. Yesterday, Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Gary Hunt asked how the Government had planned to reward the team, said, “They did not win. At this point reward is not being contemplated, however, it will be discussed.”
Hunt also revealed that no welcoming party was planned for the team since they are carded to head to Guyana soon after they arrive. “The team is coming in late on Monday night, then they fly off to Guyana, so we have not planned a welcoming ceremony for them. But there is still time to discuss it with the cricket board.”
By the way allyuh see how John Bravo don't mix matters - we were happy to see his comments covered in the Guardian. Way to go daddy Bravo, tell 'em like it is! (Not like we think Manning even cares - he probably at home in his mansion rolling around in a vat full of money and watching the "Best of Robert Mugabe's Political Strategies" dvd.)
Bravo’s dad to Manning, Govt...Stay away from cricketers
The Trinidad Guardian
Published: 25 Oct 2009
Yvonne Baboolal
John Bravo, father of T&T cricket allrounder, Dwayne Bravo, is sending a message to Prime Minister Patrick Manning to not come to Piarco airport when the team returns home. “Tell Manning don’t come by the airport. We don’t want him up there,” an angry Bravo told the Sunday Guardian shortly after the T&T team lost the final match to New South Wales Blues in Hyderabad, India last Friday. “He aint give the boys nothing.” Bravo was referring to the Government’s alleged lack of financial assistance to the team and the help they solicited from an Indian firm. “We don’t want the Government in the airport,” John insisted. He said he and a Cantaro possee are planning to go to the airport. “I have to go to welcome my son home.”
He said he expected the team to win the league but felt good, nevertheless, because they gave 100 per cent. “They played Australia, who had eight Test players on their side. “Is cricket... If you know cricket, so it is.” T&T cricket captain, Darren Ganga’s entire family went to India to support him and his brother, Sherwin, Barackpore MP, Nizam Baksh said last Friday. “But we’re planning a celebration function for he and Sherwin with their original cricket club, All Apaches. “This is the club they played with from small.” He said Ganga’s grandfather was a cane farmer in the area and his father is a retired school teacher.
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