Bridgetown.
The organizers of the LIME/Pelican Football Challenge is increasing the security in and around Kensington Oval after two men were shot at the end of a football match played at the venue on Sunday night.
Germaine Harte, 20, of Bonnetts, Brittons Hill, St Michael was shot in the right side while Rico Reed, 20, of Bonnetts Britton Hills, St Michael, was shot in the arm.
According to the chairman of the tournament 's organizing committe Mia Mottley,such violence would not be tolerated during the competition.
Mottley told Trakker News that LIME/Pelican would not only increase it security but will work with Crime Stoppers to offer a reward to bring the perpetrators to justice once the evidence was there to link them to the crime.
Harte and Reed were sitting in a vehicle the compound of DaCosta Mannings when two armed men fired a number of shot at them, neither of them were critically injured but the driver attempt to leave and the vehicle crashed into a lamp-post
They were treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and discharged.
The LIME/Pelican Football Challenge is the most lucrative football competition on the island with a first prize of $100,000. 
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