{"id":31513,"date":"2013-02-12T07:49:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T12:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=31513"},"modified":"2013-02-12T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T12:49:21","slug":"btc-to-sponsor-carifta-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/btc-to-sponsor-carifta-2013","title":{"rendered":"BTC To Sponsor CARIFTA 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/btc-to-sponsor-carifta-2013-31513.html\/carifta-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31514\" title=\"carifta\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/carifta1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/carifta1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/carifta1-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Bahamas Telephone Company (BTC) has pledged $175,000 to the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) as sponsorship for the 42nd Annual CARIFTA Games, the region\u2019s most significant track and field event, which is scheduled to be held March 29 thru April 1 in Nassau, said BAAA\u2019s president, Mike Sands.<\/p>\n<p>This sponsorship makes BTC the title sponsor and therefore \u201cwe are extremely proud to name the games for this year The BTC CARIFTA Games 2013, reflecting BTC\u2019s level of sponsorship and nation building commitment to junior and youth athletics in the country\u201d said Mr. Sands.<\/p>\n<p>He said History shows that CARIFTA champions are certainly\u00a0 viewed as potential future Olympic Games material.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are grateful to BTC for recognising this fact and for backing up their belief in the country\u2019s young aspiring athletes with essential financial support. This BTC support will help us shape our athletic destiny as a country,&#8221; said the BAAA chief.<\/p>\n<p>BTC senior vice-president Marlon Johnson said BTC is ever conscious of the community it serves. Community is first for BTC. Sponsorship budgets are always directed at opportunities to educate or entertain and in some way better people\u2019s lives. &#8220;We\u2019re appreciative of our thousands of customers who use our services and we try and show that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the BTC CARIFTA Games promises to be one of the best and the outcome is expected to underline The Bahamas&#8217; maturity as a viable contender on the world\u2019s winning athletic stage.<\/p>\n<p>CARIFTA has been held previously in the Bahamas in 1976, \u201978, \u201981, \u201984, \u201992 and 2002. The games have produced athletes such as Usain Bolt, Darrel Brown, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Kim Collins and Pauline Davis-Thompson.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Stirling Strachan<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Bahamas Information Services<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Telephone Company (BTC) has pledged $175,000 to the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) as sponsorship for the 42nd Annual CARIFTA Games, the region\u2019s most significant track and field event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1149],"class_list":["post-31513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-btc-carifta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}