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Jun 18, 2009 Sports
By Edison Jefford
A public relation and communication breakdown could have been the primary reason for Guyana’s non-attendance at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Age Group Championships, rather than the reported financial impediment.
Another section of the print media reported yesterday that the four athletes named for the event that was slated for the Bahamas would no longer attend since the body failed to get a $1.4M sum required to send the team.
However, when contacted yesterday, Cornell Rose, who is acting Athletics Association of
Guyana (AAG) President in the absence of Colin Boyce told Kaieteur Sport that he is not in possession of any budget information.
Boyce is currently in Peru for the South American Congress ahead of the South American Senior Championships that begins tomorrow. Rose said that the purported budget and the team were not communicated to him.
“I don’t know what went on with them [the team]. To be honest, I did not know who was going with them, so I could not ask anyone.
I don’t have a clue,” a puzzled Rose stated in a definite indication of a communication collapse.
Rose is currently recovering from a broken right foot and was somewhat out of the circle, which he admitted. However, the AAG First Vice-President said that he was unaware of the disclosed sum to cover the four athletes.
“I didn’t know it reached all that money. I am shocked. [Faye] Naughton [team manager] didn’t call me to let me know anything. They did not discuss cost and all that,” Rose said, adding that Boyce was probably apprised.
Naughton may have spoken with Boyce and not Rose, who is incapacitated for sometime now and that could have been one of the reasons the team was placed on the backburner because Boyce had the blueprint for funding.
In formal conversations with this newspaper last week, Boyce did not express the threat of financial pitfalls.
He was rather optimistic that all the teams selected would have the opportunity to compete at respective events.
When this newspaper reached the previous manager of the South American team, Lyndon Wilson yesterday, we were informed that Boyce has taken over the management since he is already in Peru. Wilson will no longer travel.
However, current national senior sprint champion, Michael Saul left Guyana for the event yesterday, while Lee Prowell is expected to compete from the United States.
The sprinters were the only confirmations received.
In an interview with this Kaieteur Sport earlier this week, Cleveland Forde has accepted an invitation to compete in Barbados this weekend. Efforts to contact Alisha Fortune and Kelvin Johnson proved futile yesterday.
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