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SOURCE: CMC- SIR RICHIE Richardson will not take on the role of Antigua and Barbuda’s Sports Commissioner due to a demanding ICC schedule.
Last year, Sir Richie, a member of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees, was announced by the government to become the country’s latest commissioner of sports following unsuccessful talks to make him a government senator and junior minister.
However, Sports Minister Daryll Matthew recently revealed that principal Dr Colin Greene would be the new commissioner of sports.
Matthew said a demanding schedule in ICC cricket and intensive travel had hampered the ability of both Sir Richie and the government to formalise the appointment.
“Sir Richie Richardson, we’ve been having some conversations, and his time simply is not allowing him to be able to take up the position and to function in a way that we have,” Matthew said.
“There’s a lot more international cricket being played and with him being an ICC match referee, it’s just not giving him the time that we expected, and he probably expected to have, so he has agreed that he will step back from that appointment.”
As a result, Matthew disclosed that the government had begun discussions with Dr Greene several weeks ago after the veteran educator expressed an interest in pursuing new professional challenges following his nearly 23-year tenure at Princess Margaret School (PMS).
“We had some discussions with Dr Colin Greene several weeks ago, and he expressed an interest in having a new direction in his career.
“He has given enormous service to Princess Margaret. I don’t believe there are too many persons in Antigua and Barbuda who would dispute that he has transformed that school in an amazingly positive way,” Matthew said.
Under Dr Greene’s stewardship, PMS has achieved unprecedented success in local athletic competitions, capturing multiple titles in both male and female categories of the Antigua and Barbuda Inter-School Track and Field Championship.
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I am nit convinced that Greene is the best choice for Sports Commissioner! Isnt this just another blatant example of Daryll Matthew’s penchant for rewarding his family, friends and comrades? The appointment of Greene as Sports Commissioner must be the joke of the decade and a hard slap in the face for our hardworking sports coaches many of whom possess the professional and academic qualifications far more relevant, and therefore superior, to the post of Sports Commissioner than Greene’s so-called doctorate in education. . Was the post even advertised in the first place? This is just so amusing. Oh well, just another square peg in a round hole!!! Truth be told though. School children say that his doctor-wife had been tipped for the top job of the recently put together joint association of tertiary education and THIS posed a potentially explosive domestic threat within the halls of the doctors’ hallowed home. So somethings had to be tweaked……..and fast too!! 😆 😂