Last month during his feature address at the 2011 Sports Award ceremony, President Ramotar, while praising our current champions, made a powerful plea for us to remember and honour sportsmen and sportswomen who performed nobly in the past but were all too likely to sink into obscurity and even oblivion as the years pass. He called for sporting associations to establish Halls of Fame which would permanently commemorate the contributions of those who had made their nation proud in the past but had been forgotten.
I hope the President’s plea is actively
