da apostaganha： If the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) had returned tothe bargaining tables, a decision could have been reached tosatisfy all the players in the lottery game
Sherrylyn Clarke28-Dec-2001If the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) had returned tothe bargaining tables, a decision could have been reached tosatisfy all the players in the lottery game.Steve Stoute, president of the Barbados Olympic Association(BOA), was reacting to the announcement of the cricketassociation’s lottery.After the BCA made their final decision, there has been noofficial dialogue since then between us. Certainly, if theBCA had come back to the table from the BOA perspective wewould have been receptive, Stoute said.My response would be one of regret that the sporting bodiescouldn’t respond to the Prime Minister’s plea to formulate alottery to finance sport in Barbados.The BCA recently announced they would be going ahead to joinwith the Leeward Islands Lottery Holding Company (LILHC) tohave their own lottery, independent of the merger betweenthe BOA, the Barbados Turf Club and the National SportsCouncil.Stoute stands firmly behind the view that the market is toosmall for two lotteries.I don’t think the market can really sustain two lotteries.We have two lotteries going right now and the revenues havebeen reduced substantially not in profitability. They arestill profitable, but for the various sporting bodies to beaggressively fighting each other for market share, it is inmy opinion a sad commentary, he said.The long-serving administrator said the pie had to bedivided among those four players and Government also wanteda fund for culture and the arts, but the offer to the BCAwas fair and equitable.