ROADTOWN Tortola BVI, October 30th, 2013 -- The British Virgin Islands Customs Sports and Social Club will be hosting a regional meeting with the Presidents of the Caribbean Regional Customs Sports Tournament from October 31 to November 3, 2013, in preparations for the 39th Caribbean Customs Sports Tournament to be held in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), from April 17 to 21, 2014.
Speaking on the benefits of the this annual tournament scheduled to be held in the BVI for the first time President of the BVI Customs Sports and Social Club Ms. Shenelle Walters said, “Hosting this annual tournament in the BVI will bring regional travellers, financial and regional tourism to the territory, revenue for hotels, taxi drivers, car rental companies and local vendors, in addition to branding the BVI to the Caribbean for future sports events.”
Ms. Walters added that the objective of these annual tournaments is to enhance cooperation and partnerships between various Caribbean Customs Administrations; establish and maintain a vibrant spirit of mutual support and respect through interaction and understanding and; generally improve working, sporting and cultural relations between and among Caribbean countries.
She further went on to explain that these tournaments have not only been about sports but they provide ample opportunity for social interaction during non-sporting activities such as cultural evenings and other arrangements for meeting and making contact with host-country natives.
“The competition itself has always been marked as friendly rivalry, congeniality and respect among the teams as valuable friendships are formed,” Ms. Walters expressed.
Prior to the meeting a ceremony will be held to pass the Caribbean Regional Customs Sports Tournament Flag to the BVI Customs Sports and Social Club Team as the host country. Topics to be discussed during the meeting are constitution, visa waiver requirements, games and rules, transportation and accommodation.
The regional tournament scheduled for April 17 to 21, 2014 will attract over 460 participants and spectators from Antigua, Anguilla, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, St. Kitts, Trinidad, Turks and Caicos, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, St. Lucia and Cayman Islands. Sporting games will include cricket, football, table-tennis, basketball, dominoes and softball to be held at the Multi Sports Complex, A.O. Shirley Recreation Grounds and the Greenland Recreation Grounds.
The Caribbean Customs Sports Tournament was first envisioned in 1975, by Mr. Neville Monseque, the first Head of the Regional Training School of Trinidad and Tobago and Mr. Errol Douglas, a former Comptroller of Customs in Barbados. The idea came to fruition during the Easter weekend of that year, 1975 a group of Barbadian Customs Officers travelled to Trinidad and Tobago to engage their Trinidadian counterparts in cricket. And there, it has become a yearly event every Easter weekend in a different Caribbean Country.
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