RECENTLY-retired boxing promoter Eric Sealy is not pleased with the remarks made by Guyanese bantamweight boxer Errol Trotman on his return home after he was deported from Barbados last week.

According to a report in Guyana’s Stabroek News, Trotman said the Barbadian authorities had little respect for Guyanese and made an appeal to the Guyana government to look into his situation.

But Sealy, who made it clear he was not involved in any fight promotion with Trotman while he was in Barbados, told NATIONSPORT he was extremely disappointed at the remarks attributed to Trotman whom he took under his wing while he was in Barbados.

“I am diametrically oppos-ed to the statement that Barbadians disregard Guya-nese. To go back to Guyana and say what he said is totally unacceptable because of our relationship,” Sealy said.

“I knew nothing about Trotman, but two weeks after he was here he called me on August 17. It was my birthday and I arranged transportation for him and took him to the Richard Stoute Show as an invited guest. He sat in the front row with me and had refreshments with me,” Sealy said. He said Trotman told him he needed an extension of his stay and called him the following morning about making an application on his behalf with the Immigration Department. However, Sealy said he saw Trotman with tools and a steel cap later in the evening. “He began to work even before he got the work permit and I told him he has to be very careful in working without permission to do so,” Sealy said.

“I hope that the Immigra-tion Department would not continue to be castigated by people who come to the country and flout the immigration conditions.” Sealy said he also took Trotman to lunch on another occasion and he (Trotman) invited him to attend a card that he was scheduled to fight on, but when he (Sealy) turned up to watch the bout, the Guyanese was a no-show. “I speak as one with strong connections to people in Guyana. I’ve helped many Guyanese and have even been called the unofficial ambassador for Guyana, so it is not fair for him to make these remarks when I treated him so well,” Sealy said. (Barbados Nation)