MONTEGO BAY, St James — Two of Montego Bay’s track and field organisers are among a cadre of officials from around the world who will officiate at the 2013 staging of the Central American and the Caribbean (CAC) Age Group Championships, scheduled for June 28-30 in Willemstad, Curacao.

Meet Director and Chairman of JPS Western Primary Schools Athletic Championships, Albert Ferguson, and his meet manager and long time track umpire, Linden Thomson, have been invited by the Netherlands Athletic Federation to officiate at the event.

The two track and field officials will leave the island next Thursday for the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao.

Ferguson and Thomson have been the principals behind the JPS Western Primary Schools Athletic Championships which started on the grass track at Cornwall College in 2009, and moved to the artificial surface inside the Montego Bay Sports Complex, Catherine Hall, St James, a year later.

Ferguson said he is delighted and honoured to be invited by another country to officiate at an International track and field championship.

He revealed that his first major meet was the 2011 staging of the Carifta Games, held at the Montego Bay Sports Complex.

” I will be making every effort to capitalise on this my first international assignment,” Ferguson told the Jamaica Observer West.

Meanwhile, Thomson, who has been officiating at various track meets across the island, says it’s a great opportunity for him to be invited to officiate outside of Jamaica.

He said he has gained much experience by working as a track umpire at the Jamaica Invitations Games, ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships, Gibson Relays, Western Relays and the Carifta Games, that when it was held in Montego Bay.

“I have gained a lot of experience since I started to serve the sport of track and field,” said Thomson, who was also instrumental in the inaugural staging of the Independent Schools Association (JISA) Caribbean Producers of Jamaica (CPJ) Invitational track meet held at the Montego Bay Sports Complex last week, where he served as Meet Manager.

Thomson is also the chairman of the Montego Bay Comets Track Club.

The CAC Age Group Championships is an international track and field athletics event for young athletes between the age of 10 and 14 years. The event which is held bi-annually is organised by the Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation (CACAC).