Nigel Si­mon

The T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion will now ben­e­fit from fi­nan­cial sup­port of Carib Brew­ery Lim­it­ed spon­sor­ship for the 2011 sea­son. This was an­nounced by Navin Ra­moutar, Pro­mo­tions Man­ag­er, Carib Brew­ery at a me­dia brief­ing held yes­ter­day at the Carib Brew­ery Lim­it­ed Hos­pi­tal­i­ty Suite, East­ern Main Road, Champs Fleur, yes­ter­day. First up on the agen­da will be the 2012 Lon­don Olympics Beach Vol­ley­ball qual­i­fiers which serve off at the Beach Vol­ley­ball Courts, Saith Park, Ch­agua­nas on Fri­day un­til Sun­day from 10 am to 10 pm dai­ly. Carib has al­so pledged its sup­port to the Na­tion­al Vol­ley­ball League which spiked off on Sun­day with match­es set to be­gin in Jan­u­ary.

Dur­ing his ad­dress, Ra­moutar, not­ed that the T&TVF is in the mi­nor­i­ty of lo­cal sport­ing or­gan­i­sa­tions that are mak­ing the head­lines for all the right rea­sons. He boast­ed, "For those of you who don't know, our men's and women's teams are cur­rent­ly ranked Caribbean cham­pi­ons which is no mean feat and tes­ti­mo­ny to the good work that the fed­er­a­tion has ac­com­plished. "In ad­di­tion to the ex­cel­lent work and equip­ping these na­tion­al teams, the fed­er­a­tion has al­so in­vest­ed in the train­ing and im­prov­ing in the stan­dard of lo­cal coach­es, as they strive for greater ac­com­plish­ments in the field of vol­ley­ball. "This is the kind of well or­gan­ised sport­ing or­gan­i­sa­tion that spon­sors like Carib seek.

"Not on­ly do they con­duct them­selves in pro­fes­sion­al man­ner as they go about their busi­ness, but they pro­duce re­sults. "So we are Carib are pleased to be a spon­sor for both the na­tion­al league and the Olympic qual­i­fy­ing tour­na­ment start­ing lat­er this week. "Lon­don 2012 is on­ly next two years and what a great thrill would it be to see an­oth­er T&T team qual­i­fy­ing to rep­re­sent us on the world stage. Ra­moutar al­so urged mem­bers of the pub­lic to come out and sup­port the red, white and black at Ch­agua­nas over the three-day tour­na­ment.

Oth­er spon­sors for the Beach Vol­ley­ball Qual­i­fiers in­clude, Norce­ca, FIVB, T&TVF, Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs and the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (T&TOC).