Authorities push BSA president’s resignation

Mounting disregard by the authorities for sports and voluntarism has forced Lorson Lewis to resign his post as president of the Barrouallie Sports Association (BSA).

Lewis, in his capacity as head of the BSA, was at the core of a stink with Jomadean May, then manager of the National Sports Council, last August over user fees for the Keartons Playing Field.

Ventilated in several public forums, Lewis, on reflection, believes he was let down by persons who he thought were more caring about sports.

“The issue with the Sports Council was instructive to me and I must say that is what finally pushed to pack it up as the last period of my presidency was a revelation to me,” Lewis bemoaned.

He said his stay as president of the BSA was also fast forwarded when the area representative snubbed the 2016 Barrouallie Football League.

“When the area representative could snub the Barrouallie football competition and made no effort to even get the community group’s view on the matter, then I realized the time had come for me to step back and start analyzing my contribution to the Barrouallie community,” Lewis related.

Sir Louis Straker is the area representative for Central Leeward constituency. Barrouallie is one of two towns in Central Leeward.

Another of Lewis’ lamentations is what he termed as “lack of attention” and “poor communication” in relation to the Keartons hard court.

Lewis said that since refurbishing work was done on the facility in the latter part of 2015, his organization has been given the “run around” over who is responsible for the facility.

Lewis revealed that the Keartons hard court has been left undone, and is no use to the community for netball, basketball or other cultural activities.

“Since 2014, we have not had a netball competition and the other sporting and cultural programmes were affected,” Lewis recalled.

And, he is making a call for persons in positions of authority to attribute more value to voluntarism and to persons who use their time in building their communities and St Vincent and the Grenadines as a whole.

“Personally, I have given lots of personal sacrifices, which cannot be measured,” Lewis added.

Lewis served in the post of BSA president for over five years.

Under his watch, the BSA has undertaken several successful football, netball and softball cricket competitions.

Additionally, during Lewis’ tenure, the Barrouallie league teams have reaped many national titles at the senior and age group football competitions.(RT)