THE EDITOR, Sir:
RUGBY IS currently a minor sport in Jamaica. Though it has experienced exponential growth over the last five years, we accept that football, cricket and basketball are the major team sports on our island.
The Jamaica Junior Rugby Association is determined to have rugby competing against the major sports for the allegiance of our young men and women. It may take some time, but we are certain that the popularity of the sport will increase with time and exposure.
Rugby offers an attractive alternative to cricket and football. But like these sports we suffer and even more so, from a lack of proper playing surfaces and venues. It is my eternal hope and dream, that during my lifetime I will see the construction of a rugby mini-stadium in Kingston.
As our under-16 boys prepare to travel to Guyana (August 28) to defend the Caribbean championship which Jamaica won in St. Vincent and the Grenadines last year, I am asking that the public support us in our fund-raising ventures. I am asking that large corporations assist us so that we may once again make Jamaica proud. To the tireless warriors, Jacob Thompson, Rohan Stewart, Victor Hyde, Keith Jackson, Mervyn Down and all the others, continue the good fight of volunteerism, you gentlemen are the unsung heroes.
I am etc.,
ROMEO MONTEITH
Chairman, Jamaica Junior Rugby Association
Go-Jamaica
