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January  2, 2009

QuickCash Money Transfer Sponsors JAAA

Kenarthur Mitchell, President/Chief Executive officer (CEO) of First Financial Caribbean (Ja.) Ltd., (right), hands over his company's contribution cheque to Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (JAAA) treasurer Ludlow Watts at the company's New Kingston head office on January 2, 2009. JAAA's president Howard Aris (centre) and executive members Maxine Brown (second left) look on.

The Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (JAAA) on Tuesday, the first business day of 2009, received financial contribution from QuickCash Money Transfer.

First Financial Caribbean (Ja.) Limited, the parent company of QuickCash, contributed half-million dollars to the JAAA, which the association's executives, led by Howard Aris, president, Ludlow Watts, treasurer, and Maxine Brown and Gregory Hamilton, were on hand to accept at a brief presentation ceremony held at the company's office in New Kingston.

Kenarthur Mitchell, the company's president/chief executive officer (CEO), told the JAAA executives and members of the media, "this is the first of many more to come".

Mitchell, who identified track and field as one of the most successful sports, expressed satisfaction with his company's new relationship.

"We are pleased to be associated with the JAAA," said Mitchell, who went on to say "2008 was a great year for us in Jamaica and we felt for 2009, we have to keep the momentum up".

Last August, Jamaica led by Usain Bolt, who destroyed the world to win gold medals - 100m (9.69), 200m (19.30) and formed part of the 4x100m team, which had Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter and Michael Frater for a 37.10sec run, all three world records, dominated the track inside the Bird's Nest stadium.

Shelly-Ann Fraser 100m (10.78), Veronica Campbell-Brown 200m (21.74) and Melaine Walker's Olympic record run of 52.64, were the other gold medals winners while Kerron Stewart 100m (silver), 200m (bronze), Sherone Simpson 100m (silver), Shericka Williams 400m (silver), along with the women's 4x400m relay team bronze, accounted for the other medals.

In August, Jamaica will once again take on the world at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany.

"As a company we felt it was good to start the ball rolling by making this first donation for the 2009 programme," Mitchell added.

"We trust that what it will do is give other companies the motivation to get on board because as a country, we know we have to do better than what we did in 2008," he added.

President Aris welcomed to contribution while hoping the relationship will better serve track & field.

"We are very pleased to be in this sort of partnership with them now and we look forward to the continued growth of their company and also contribution to the development of track & field," Aris noted.

"This contribution, as Kenarthur said, is the first of more to come and we are only hoping he will be satisfied, Jamaica will be satisfied and all of us working together will see better things for track & field in 2009," concluded President Aris, who is also a member of the IAAF's Youth Commission.