Thursday 14 January-Port.of.Spain
Repeated Efforts to contact Haiti Olympic Committee colleagues yesterday have been described as 'futile" by Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee(TTOC) president Larry Romany.
"I tried to contact Jean Edouard [Baker] the Haiti NOC president and Alain[ Jean Pierre] secretary general but had no luck. We are worried.The TTOC would like to offer assistance but figuring out where and how is frustrating. This is such a sad situation for our freinds and colleagues in Haiti. Sport is the universal language and everyone involved in international and regional sport would have competed with and interacted with Haitian counterparts. I am calling on the respective Olympic Sport Organisations to come together and contribute in whatever way we can."
Romany said it is at times such as this that the citizens of T&T should reflect and contemplate the long suffering circumstances of Haiti.
" It is always easy to get complacent .We (T&T) should not continue to take our good fortune for granted.As we reach out to our Haitian brothers and sisters let us also heed the realties of natural disasters and consider our national preparedness to deal with such misfortune."
