St Lucia basketball tour
Airline owed hefty sum
Stabroek News
November 23, 2003
The row over the tour to St Lucia by a team of under-19 basketball players took another twist yesterday with the revelation that an airline is owed a hefty sum.
Sources told Stabroek Sport that an airline servicing the local market is owed in excess of $150,000, a debt incurred as a result of a recent tour to St Lucia by a team of under-19 basketball players. Since the team's return from that Caribbean island, numerous reports have surfaced regarding unpaid bills and unaccounted for funds.
A bill of EC$4,049.20 is owed to the Harbour Light Inn of St Lucia for accommodation and meals for the 22-man party which toured St Lucia last month.
At a press briefing on Friday at the YWCA on Brickdam, former secretary Perry Woolford and former Treasurer Eon Andrews who have both been expelled from the Guyana Amateur Basket-ball Association (GABA), informed the media that their lawyers are handling the matter.
At the press briefing, Woolford had acknowledged signing documents pertaining to the St Lucia debt when these were shown to him by the media.
He had also acknowledged meeting Mr Didus Fedee, an associate of GABA president Raffel Douglas. (Clyde Pestano)