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Friday, April 19, 2013
PANAMA CITY, Panama — There was a strong sense of collective determination and will to bury its ghostly past and to set sail on a course of accountability, transparency and profitability.
The Caribbean Football Union (CFU), in a continuous and desperate bid to reinvent itself and repair its damaged image coming out of the nightmarish cash-for-vote scandal, spoke with a unified voice — perhaps for the first time — at its 35th annual congress here yesterday.
As the umbrella group for football in the Caribbean picks up the pieces and presented its first "audited statement and financial report" — albeit on a provisional basis — there was still a lingering cloud of the painful memory of an organisation brought to the brink by claims and counter- claims of corruption and a lack of transparency over the life of the organisation.
With their best efforts and without once mentioning his name as they sought to put the past behind them, those who addressed the gathering of the 30-member CFU could not fully hide their feelings of contempt and misgivings of a dark period when the organisation was run by the autocratic Trinidadian Austin 'Jack' Warner.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...#ixzz2Qu04yTdk
Maybe they need some sort of a 12 step program that will give them the courage to call di man name. Only then would they be able to demonstrate their new found independence and move ahead to chart a new course characterised by transparency and honesty.
Friday, April 19, 2013
PANAMA CITY, Panama — There was a strong sense of collective determination and will to bury its ghostly past and to set sail on a course of accountability, transparency and profitability.
The Caribbean Football Union (CFU), in a continuous and desperate bid to reinvent itself and repair its damaged image coming out of the nightmarish cash-for-vote scandal, spoke with a unified voice — perhaps for the first time — at its 35th annual congress here yesterday.
As the umbrella group for football in the Caribbean picks up the pieces and presented its first "audited statement and financial report" — albeit on a provisional basis — there was still a lingering cloud of the painful memory of an organisation brought to the brink by claims and counter- claims of corruption and a lack of transparency over the life of the organisation.
With their best efforts and without once mentioning his name as they sought to put the past behind them, those who addressed the gathering of the 30-member CFU could not fully hide their feelings of contempt and misgivings of a dark period when the organisation was run by the autocratic Trinidadian Austin 'Jack' Warner.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...#ixzz2Qu04yTdk
Maybe they need some sort of a 12 step program that will give them the courage to call di man name. Only then would they be able to demonstrate their new found independence and move ahead to chart a new course characterised by transparency and honesty.
