AIDEX sports festival today
The Colombo Friend-in-Need organised AIDEX 2017, the Annual Sports Festival for Jaipur Limb users will be held today at Prison Grounds, Colombo 8.
To commemorate the 186th Anniversary of the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society AIDEX will be held for the 28th year. The event is very much looked forward by both participants and organisers. Over 400 participants from various parts of the island will be in action at this year's edition. The participants include members of the armed forces and civilians who have undergone amputation of limbs following conflict, traffic accidents, infections especially in diabetic patients and children with limb defects.
The event will be worked off from 8.00 a.m. with the male and female bicycle races followed by 63 Track and Field events including 100, 200 and 400 metre races. Putt Shot, Long Jump and Archery.
Ceylon Tea services Ltd. (Dilmah) will be providing T' Shirts and caps for the partici-
Shooting of the Messenger
pants and volunteers.
The other establishments who will lend a helping hand for success of the event will be Fonterra Brands Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., Ceylon Cold Stores, Coca Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd., Lanka Milk Foods (CWE) PLC., Ceylon Biscuits Ltd., Galadari Hotel, Stassen Exports (Pvt) Ltd., and Hilton Colombo along with volunteer groups including Girl Guides from Musaeus College, students from the Colombo Medical Faculty and the staff of M/s Tallman Tours.
The Big Boss of the Movement that is supposed to advocate respect, fair play and camaraderie amongst sportspersons, is on a rampage these days, following a news item exposing the lack of transparency, accountability and good governance in the Committee headed by him. Observers say "he is like a raging bull, threatening to take the pen to courts for having exposed the inadequacies of the committee and casting disparaging remarks on some of his close associates of the years gone by, who have voiced their concerns about the prevailing situation of the movement".
They say, "It is like shooting the messenger, instead of addressing the message".
Critics and Observers both alike, feel that having served the movement and enjoyed the plums for nearly 20 years,(with the last four years being unelected due to a quirk of chance), the best he could do is to bow out gracefully and save his honour. " If he continues in this berating fashion, he may even lose the privilege of being elected by a 2/3 majority to be a Honorary Past President, represented on the Executive Committee of the movement ". His present symptoms may well be a part of withdrawal symptoms !!!