Dear Editor,
The organisers of the Annual Football Competition have expressed their gratitude to those who assisted in one way or the other in making this year’s tournament to mark my 90th Birthday a success. The organisers will be writing ‘Thank You’ letters to those who helped, even as they express consternation that certain folks could not bring themselves to help the Annual Inter-Ward Football event. Because of our history, it is no secret that in Guyana, football is popular among a certain group of our population. It is therefore so worrisome that this year, the Ministry responsible for Culture, Youth & Sport did everything to frustrate this year’s event and instead of using this opportunity to help, like bullies, the Ministry set out to hinder, using the event as a political football. Forgive the pun.
Wednesday’s Stabroek News Editorial titled “Blurred lines in Football” eloquently points to the underlying problem in this sport utilised by a certain group of persons. So in a Ministry that should be in the forefront of healing, they are hurting. On a separate matter, the independent media has dwelt with the meeting held at State House at 5:30 am in the morning. I simply state who is the President fooling? If contracts are properly awarded there would be few, if any overruns. But I am reminded of these words from Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar and those who have read the play can draw their own conclusions:
Cassius noted, ‘why man he doth bestride the narrow world/Like a Colossus and we petty men/Walk under his huge legs and peep about/To find ourselves dishonourable graves/Men at some time are masters of their fates/The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves/That we are underlings.”
Sincerely,
Hamilton Green
Elder
