Letter to the Sports Editor...Dennis Clarke clears air on Chin Inter Ward basketball issue

Letter to the Sports Editor…Dennis Clarke clears air on Chin Inter Ward basketball issue

Nov 02, 2013 Sports

Dear Editor,
We of the Trinity Grid Pacesetters Basketball Club would like to clear the air as it relates to a statement that was made by the President of the Guyana Basketball Officials Council (GBOC), Mr. Cecil Chin, in which he stated that his council was, as he puts it “Slighted” during the staging of the Inter Ward Basketball Tournament.
Chairman of the Club Mr. Dennis Clarke, said that the statement is untrue and he believes that Mr. Chin is trying to damage the integrity of the Pacesetters Basketball Club which has never fallen short in honoring their commitments weather financial or otherwise.
He believes that Chin is getting mixed up with the Inter Wards 2013 and the NCBL which was staged in 2012 of which he Chin represented the promoters and the officials who are still owed.
Clark noted that his club approached GBOC to have them officiate in the Inter Ward tournament. He was given the mandate by Chin to pay in advance for the services of GBOC as it was in keeping with the constitution of GBOC.
Clark said that he requested a copy of that constitution and Chin waved a paper in his (Clarke) face saying, this is our constitution. However in the interest of basketball and the tournament, we advanced GBOC a total of Ninety Thousand Dollars for which we received an incomplete receipt.
The club continued to pay the fees throughout the tournament and it should be noted that all fees have been paid to date.
He said that it appears that GBOC, although claiming to be professional are operating in the opposite as he recalled during the tournament he asked the treasurer for a receipt for a further payment that he made, but was greeted with hostile words by the treasurer, Mr. Adrian George, who was at the time functioning as a table official.
George subsequently left his position and exited the venue leaving he, Clarke, to take up and complete his (George’s) duties.
The chairman said that his club remains committed to the development of basketball in Guyana and will support GABF, GABA, LABA, BABA and any promotional group as long as they keep within the constitution of the GABF, GABA, LABA & BABA. Pacesetters are currently participating in the Brusche’s Classic and the Super Sevens basketball tournaments.
Trinity Grid Pacesetters Basketball Club

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