Guyanese bantamweight boxer Errol Trotman returned home yesterday from Barbados after spending a night in that island’s airport lockups. Trotman told Stabroek Sport yesterday that he was in Barbados on vacation and even managed to get an extension on his stay because he was contracted to fight on a boxing card. The card was being promoted by a Barbadian and was scheduled to be held on the 29th of August.

According to Trotman who represented Guyana at the 1987 Pan An Games and who hails from West Ruimveldt, he left Guyana on July 29 for Barbados. While there, Trotman explained that he was offered $400 Barbadian dollars to fight for four rounds, to which he objected and made a counter offer of a six-round fight for $600 or alternatively a four-round fight for a similar fee. The boxer said that the promoter did not accept his offer and subsequently told him that he no longer wanted him to fight on his card.

Trotman said that as a result of this he was forced to work with family friends to make ends meet until he could return to Guyana. He admitted that his extension and stay in Barbados was on condition that he did not work while there but according to him he was offered a fight in Saint Lucia by another promoter and in order to survive until then he had to do something to sustain himself. He added that when he went in to the immigration with his new promoter to get his extension to enable him to fly to Saint Lucia and return to Barbados and then Guyana he was told that he was no longer wanted in Barbados. According to him when he asked why he was being sent home he was told that the former promoter had called the authorities and told them that he was working.

Trotman disclosed that on the way to the airport he requested that the officers take him to the home of his family ‘friends’ so that he could collect his personal belongings. According to him when he got there all his belongings had been ransacked. He alleged that he was then escorted to the lockups at the airport where he spent the night before being sent back to Guyana.

Trotman is appealing to the Guyana Government to look into his situation since he feels that the Barbadian authorities do not have respect for Guyanese.