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Where are these people when it come to policing unjust price increases on utilities and basic food items???? Now we see why people ah suffer, because the FTC busy on fishing expeditions!!!
FTC probe on UTech Classic coming soon
BY KAYON RAYNOR, Senior staff reporter raynork@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, July 09, 2009
THE probe by the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) into the "no-show" of several top athletes - including former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell - who were billed to appear at the University of Technology (UTech) Track & Field Classic in April, could be settled ahead of the World Championships in Berlin next month.
The FTC's executive director David Miller, who started investigating the matter on April 22 following public complaints, told the Observer yesterday that a resolution is close following a hearing with the meet organisers on June 10.
"We had a meeting where certain suggestions were made by us (and) suggestions were made by them (UTech). It was a very productive meeting in terms of our way forward, in how we treat matters of this type in the future," Miller disclosed.
"A formal agreement is yet to be reached and we expect to have some sort of agreement in place towards the end of July or early August," the FTC boss added.
When the FTC probe was launched by the FTC in April, Miller told journalists that a report on the findings could have been completed as soon as May.
When contacted about the matter yesterday, UTech's director of sports Anthony Davis, who chaired the organising committee for the April 18 meet, declined to comment, citing protocal.
"We do not wish to comment on the matter at this time because we are awaiting a ruling from the FTC following our meeting last month," Davis said.
It was advertised in the print and electronic media that top athletes, including Powell, Trinidad and Tobago's Darrell Brown and Olympic 400m silver medallist Shericka Williams, would have participated at the meet, but they did not.
Powell's coach Stephen Francis withdrew the athlete on the day of the meet, Brown had not fully recovered from an operation done after the Beijing Olympics, while Williams was mourning the death of her grandmother.
News later surfaced that Powell was rehabilitating from an ankle injury, which he subsequently aggravated while anchoring Jamaica's 4x100 relay team at the Penn Relays on April 25.
When the probe was launched, Miller reportedly said if the allegations proved to be true, it would constitute a breach of the Fair Competitions Act, which upon conviction in court could result in a maximum fine of $5 million.
Asked if the UTech could still be slapped with a fine yesterday, the FTC boss replied: "No comment, I can't comment on that."
FTC probe on UTech Classic coming soon
BY KAYON RAYNOR, Senior staff reporter raynork@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, July 09, 2009
THE probe by the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) into the "no-show" of several top athletes - including former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell - who were billed to appear at the University of Technology (UTech) Track & Field Classic in April, could be settled ahead of the World Championships in Berlin next month.
The FTC's executive director David Miller, who started investigating the matter on April 22 following public complaints, told the Observer yesterday that a resolution is close following a hearing with the meet organisers on June 10.
"We had a meeting where certain suggestions were made by us (and) suggestions were made by them (UTech). It was a very productive meeting in terms of our way forward, in how we treat matters of this type in the future," Miller disclosed.
"A formal agreement is yet to be reached and we expect to have some sort of agreement in place towards the end of July or early August," the FTC boss added.
When the FTC probe was launched by the FTC in April, Miller told journalists that a report on the findings could have been completed as soon as May.
When contacted about the matter yesterday, UTech's director of sports Anthony Davis, who chaired the organising committee for the April 18 meet, declined to comment, citing protocal.
"We do not wish to comment on the matter at this time because we are awaiting a ruling from the FTC following our meeting last month," Davis said.
It was advertised in the print and electronic media that top athletes, including Powell, Trinidad and Tobago's Darrell Brown and Olympic 400m silver medallist Shericka Williams, would have participated at the meet, but they did not.
Powell's coach Stephen Francis withdrew the athlete on the day of the meet, Brown had not fully recovered from an operation done after the Beijing Olympics, while Williams was mourning the death of her grandmother.
News later surfaced that Powell was rehabilitating from an ankle injury, which he subsequently aggravated while anchoring Jamaica's 4x100 relay team at the Penn Relays on April 25.
When the probe was launched, Miller reportedly said if the allegations proved to be true, it would constitute a breach of the Fair Competitions Act, which upon conviction in court could result in a maximum fine of $5 million.
Asked if the UTech could still be slapped with a fine yesterday, the FTC boss replied: "No comment, I can't comment on that."
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