Chee Ping lays down gauntlet to Sportt board
Source: www.guardian.co.tt
Writer: Nigel Simon
Rhett Chee Ping, the newly elected chairman of the Sport Company of T&T (Sportt) has laid down the gauntlet to his fellow newly elected members. The 44-year-old Chee Ping was handed his instruments of appointment along with the 12 other elected board members by Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Anil Roberts, at his Abercromby Street head office, yesterday.
In addition to Chee Ping, who is also the president of the Shipping Association of T&T (SATT) and Director of Shipping Department, Gordon Grant & Co Ltd, the other members of the Sportt board for a two-year term are: Dr Chela Lamsee-Ebanks (Deputy Chairman); Ashwin Creed (Deputy Permanent Secretary in Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs); Caryl Kellar (Special Advisor to the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs); Kent Samlal; Anyl Goopeesingh; Annan Ramnanansingh; Milton Siboo, Harold Seeramsingh; Nisa Dass; Matthew Quamina; Cheemattee Martin and Wade Ballah.
They were presented with a congratulatory letter issued by the Minister of Finance, Winston Dookeran; a copy of the standard procurement procedures and a copy of the state enterprises performance monitoring manual. Chee Ping, also a former national swimmer, triathlete and national rugby player added, “The gauntlet base has been laid down by Minister Roberts and just by looking around I feel extremely confident that I have a good team.
“Moving forward I agree with the Minister that youth is what will see us through and hopefully we can bring programmes together that will see this to a fruition.
Chee Ping added, “I also agree with Roberts that every time you hear the Sportt company’s name or mention it to anyone its a shroud of “oh my god”, somethings wrong, how much you are going to steal or what are you going to steal.
“For anyone who knows me, if your plans are to do so then I suggest you get out right now. “I’m not going to tarnish my name nor do I want the Minister to tarnish his , nor that of the People’s Partnership. “So we have to put our heads together and get the job done. We need to stick to a time frame because that’s what sport is about. We need to be on the ball and get it done right. You don’t get four and five times to get that gold medal, you get one shot and that’s it.”