No free tickets, no CWC fee waiver!

[Mosiah]

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<SPAN class=Subheadline>Trelawny Parish Council peeved, won't allow banners</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>
Thursday, March 08, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Cricket World Cup (CWC) banners might not be hoisted between Falmouth and the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium, unless Trelawny Parish Council officers get complimentary tickets to the opening ceremony of the world's third largest sports extravaganza.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The banners, meant to enhance the route, have been in the island for some time, but the organisers say they have been waiting on a fee waiver from the parish council in order to put
them up.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But Falmouth mayor, Jonathan Bartley, said yesterday that there was very little chance of that happening against the background of the local organisers' failure to give his officers complimentary tickets.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Bartley said his officers had worked tirelessly alongside the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the CWC, but when he called about complimentary tickets, he was told there
were none.

[MdmeX]

RE: No free tickets, no CWC fee waiver!

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<SPAN class=Subheadline>Trelawny Parish Council won't waive fees </SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KERIL WRIGHT, Observer West reporter
Thursday, March 08, 2007
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=352 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Different views outside of the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium. /Photo: Keril Wright</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Falmouth, Trelawny<P class=StoryText align=justify>In what would appear to be an embarrassing case of tit for tat, the local organisers of Cricket World Cup might not be able to put up their banners along the route from Falmouth to the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium, which will host the opening ceremony of the world's third largest sporting event on Sunday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The banners, which should enhance the route, have been in the island for some time, but the organisers say they have been waiting on a fee waiver from the Trelawny Parish Council in order to put them up.<P class=StoryText align=justify>However Falmouth mayor, Jonathan Bartley, told the Observer West that there was very little chance of that happening against the background of the local organisers' failure to give his officers complimentary tickets.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"It is more negative than positive right now...We made a contribution of over $5 million from the council's building fee," said a disappointed Bartley.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=352 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>"When my officers, who worked tirelessly alongside the Local Organising Committee (LOC) called about complimentary tickets, I told them there were none... and then I find that there are other people with tickets all over the streets giving away and the council's officers who have worked sleepless nights, the LOC haven't paid them the courtesy," he said.
But the LOC's communications manager, Pauline Nelson, said yesterday that she had no knowledge that courtesy tickets were being distributed by persons in the town. "I have no knowledge of that," she told the Observer West.
Furthermore, she said, the president of the West Indies Cricket Board had written to the mayor extending an invitation to him to which he should have replied.
But Bartley said yesterday that a bearer had brought an invitation letter to his office, to which he gave a verbal response after enquiring if he could.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The entrance to the 60-acre, 10,000-seat multi-purpose complex will host the final of four warm-up matches - West Indies vs India - tomorrow, giving way to the staging of a Caribbean spectacular to mark the opening of the tournament.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In the meantime, according to Nelson, the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) has finally granted the waiver on the banners which they intend to start putting up in Kingston, where several matches will be held at Sabina Park

[MdmeX]

RE: No free tickets, no CWC fee waiver!

Furthermore, she said, the president of the West Indies Cricket Board had written to the mayor extending an invitation to him to which he should have replied.
But Bartley said yesterday that a bearer had brought an invitation letter to his office, to which he gave a verbal response after enquiring if he could.

Bartley is full of shaving cream - get off the high horse and get with the program and mek the people put up the BANNERS. Furthermore, an invitation was extended to him in writing, why the hell can't he act diplomatically and send his response in writing! We too COARSE &amp; CRASS man.

VOTE his backside out of office!!

[OJ]

RE: No free tickets, no CWC fee waiver!

There is a bigger problem here. If they are due the wavier they should get it, not because you like them, they did you a favour or if your are gettting something in return. So what to say you wanted x a mount or this or that. If on principle they should get the wavier then council should vote on providing the wavier, not just the mayor... only in jamaica but then again a suh the site run.

[Mosiah]

RE: No free tickets, no CWC fee waiver!

Heh heh! Yuh nuh easy at all.

[MdmeX]

RE: No free tickets, no CWC fee waiver!

What's wrong with thispicture - are his officers working tirelessly for FREE - or are they getting a salary, paid for by the taxpayers of Jamaica. Man stop acting like a stubborn mule, grant the waiver, mek the people dem put up the banners and mek the place look PRETTY!! cause right now, it look ugly and BARE!!

"<U>When my officers, who worked tirelessly alongside the Local Organising Committee (LOC) called about complimentary tickets, I told them there were none...</U> and then I find that there are other people with tickets all over the streets giving away and the council's officers who have worked sleepless nights, the LOC haven't paid them the courtesy," he said.