FIFA/Caribbean Football chiefs hearing now set for Bahamas

Captain Horace Burrell

President (Ag.) met constituents at Crowne Plaza

Investigators will now begin interviewing the heads of the 25 Caribbean Football Union Associations at the centre of the FIFA bribery scandal on June 14 – 15 in the Bahamas.
FIFA, through Secretary of its Ethics Committee Mr. Marc Cavaliero had written to the CFU Associations on June 3, requesting that they attend a meeting in Miami between June 7 – 9 to answer questions about claims they were each offered US$40,000 dollars as a bribe by senior FIFA members Mohammad Bin Hamman and Jack Warner.
But one of the Caribbean Association’s had written to FIFA complaining that the investigation is ‘biased’ towards the USA which clearly has a US-driven agenda. FIFA has now rescheduled the meeting for the Bahamas.
The CFU convened an emergency meeting with a number of the Associations to discuss the issue on Tuesday evening at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Trinidad, chaired by Captain Burrell, President (Ag.).
Burrell in addressing the gathering said that as a Union they were facing uncertain times and have been exposed to reports and statements from many sources.
At the meeting matters surrounding the survival and the future of the Union were outlined and discussed with the hope that some degree of strength and normality can be attained during this troublesome period. Burrell noted that stability and continuity of the CFU was their aim.
The Union has retained the services of Colin S. Henry, BA (Hons.), JD (Yale) a Barrister of the High Court of New Zealand, Attorney and Counsellor at Law (New York, Florida, Jamaica) to represent their members at the upcoming investigation.
The Associations who Henry will be representing are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Cayman Islands, Dominica, Guyana, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago.
The Cayman Islands and St Lucia have requested to meet the Ethics committee on June 17.