Drive to recruit football referees

INTERESTED IN becoming a football referee or, just simply, become more knowlegeable in the rules of the sport?

Then you can participate in a recruitment course currently underway at the Referees’ Office, 103D St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain. The course, which is being run by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Referees Association (TTFRA), will last for for ten weeks. The programme entails two sessions per week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, for a duration of two hours apiece. Aim of the exercise is the produce officials of the calibre of Douglas James, Ramesh Ramdhan, Merere Gonzales, Boni Bishop and Michael Ragoonath, who have officiated in the 1994, 1998 and 2002 Men’s World Cup as well as the 1999 Women’s World Cup. Cost for the entire course is $100 and, for further information, call Ricardo Camps, secretary of the TTFRA North Zone at 678-6054, or the Referees’ Office at 627-9461; via e-mail at referees@tstt.net.tt.