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Habit7 wrote:pioneer wrote:CFU is a private org. they are not bounded by any government policies, i do not see what's the problem here?pugboy wrote:so does this imply that large sums of undeclared money was brought into the country
without customs knowledge ?
At least on that we can prosecute the man
.....funny eh?
shogun wrote:Habit7 wrote:pioneer wrote:CFU is a private org. they are not bounded by any government policies, i do not see what's the problem here?pugboy wrote:so does this imply that large sums of undeclared money was brought into the country
without customs knowledge ?
At least on that we can prosecute the man
The CFU and by extension CONCACAF, has rules/regulations set by FIFA, against directly, or indirectly trying to bribe/influence votes of officials, which is what obviously seems to have happened here...dunno what so hard to understand there?
I guess Jack resigned, out of the goodness of his heart? *shrugs*
The same people seeking to dismiss this as "nothing" are the same people, that cry for friggin' blood, if a mother steals a tin of milk powder, from a supermarket, to feed thier kids
I hope people remember, this "person" is a member of cabinet, in the gov't of our lovely island....carry on.
ABA Trading LTD wrote:@ habit7
Who would you prefer in a position of power?
Would you prefer a corrupt individual who does a lot for the country?
or a clean/honest individual who does very little to nothing for the country?
Shango_13 wrote:big theif
ABA Trading LTD wrote:@ habit7
Who would you prefer in a position of power?
Would you prefer a corrupt individual who does a lot for the country?
or a clean/honest individual who does very little to nothing for the country?
shogun wrote:Habit7 wrote:pioneer wrote:CFU is a private org. they are not bounded by any government policies, i do not see what's the problem here?pugboy wrote:so does this imply that large sums of undeclared money was brought into the country
without customs knowledge ?
At least on that we can prosecute the man
The CFU and by extension CONCACAF, has rules/regulations set by FIFA, against directly, or indirectly trying to bribe/influence votes of officials, which is what obviously seems to have happened here...dunno what so hard to understand there?
I guess Jack resigned, out of the goodness of his heart? *shrugs*
The same people seeking to dismiss this as "nothing" are the same people, that cry for friggin' blood, if a mother steals a tin of milk powder, from a supermarket, to feed thier kids
I hope people remember, this "person" is a member of cabinet, in the gov't of our lovely island....carry on.
silversurfer TnT wrote:i love to see people support their party at the end of the day the rich will get richer no matter who in power
silversurfer TnT wrote:i love to see people support their party at the end of the day the rich will get richer no matter who in power
PNM, COP on Jack video: PM must address issue now
Published: Thu, 2011-10-13 18:46
Gail Alexander
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is escorted to the Hyatt Regency by Labour and Small and Micro Enterprise Development Minister, Errol McLeod to formally launch the National Integrated Business Incubator System (IBIS) yesterday. PHOTO: SHIRLEY BAHADUR
The Opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) and the Congress of the People (COP), a coalition partner in the People’s Partnership, have called on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to immediately act in the issue concerning taped statements by Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner. PNM MP Amery Browne said Persad-Bissessar must immediately suspend Warner from the Cabinet and allow a police probe to proceed. COP chairman Joseph Toney, who said he was not at all comfortable with the situation pertaining to Warner, added that the Prime Minister must speak about the issue and the country must be told whether any laws were broken.
The tape was posted on the Internet by London’s Telegraph newspaper. In it, Warner allegedly urged fellow Caribbean football officials to accept US$40,000 cash gifts from Qatar’s Mohamed bin Hammam, a former presidential candidate for world football governing body, FIFA. Warner was at the time speaking at a meeting of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) on May 11 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Port-of-Spain. This was before FIFA’s presidential elections. The gifts were an alleged payment for CFU members to support bin Hammam’s candidacy. Warner was suspended pending investigations into the incident. He subsequently resigned as FIFA vice-president. Warner has admitted to telling the CFU delegates to take the money and use it for development, but he says the tape was doctored.
Yesterday, COP’s Toney said: “While Warner is no longer in FIFA that doesn’t wipe away everything. “This is not a comfortable situation for the Government or Cabinet and I for one am not at all comfortable with it,” he said. “One would hope the matter is cleared up as quickly as possible whether by FIFA, Warner or the Prime Minister. “The country needs to ascertain if any laws were broken, if only to settle this one way or the other...Any action on Warner would be her (PM’s) call.” PNM’s Browne also said: “Warner must be suspended as a government minister and proper investigation done within our shores, taking into consideration the serious allegations made and the evidence that has come to light. “This tape cannot be overlooked using the usual excuses about who has files on who and that ‘all will be revealed in time,’” he said.
“This is evidence in black, white and colour. “Hundreds were arrested under the state of emergency with no evidence or less than what has been produced in Warner’s case. “Government should be ashamed of continuing to subject citizens to such unjust treatment while turning a blind eye to the glaring evidence of atrocities at the highest level of Cabinet.” Noting Warner acted as Prime Minister up to three weeks ago, Browne said: “The Prime Minister can no longer hide from this...She must act immediately and once she does her duty and suspends Warner that will allow the Police Commissioner to conduct the investigation on Warner and the issue which the PNM has been calling for him to do.
“This CFU meeting occurred on T&T soil when Warner was a minister,” he added. “If the Police Commissioner needed evidence, this tape now makes it absolutely necessary for this probe to go forward. “If we wait for Warner to resign, it is clear he will never do so no matter what evidence is presented. “The PM must stop vacillating and do what is right for T&T, especially since Government is seeking investment. “The Prime Minister cannot keep parroting that T&T is open for business when by her inaction on this sort for situation she shows she has no concern for T&T’s image or the alleged conduct of her ministers.”
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2011/10/ ... -issue-now
^you're wasting your time....just saying.pioneer wrote:silversurfer TnT wrote:i love to see people support their party at the end of the day the rich will get richer no matter who in power
Actually it has nothing to do with party, it's called assessing the situation.
That's how business is done in the modern world, either you in or you out.
Jack Warner: I will dish Sepp Blatter dirt
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Associated Press
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Disgraced former FIFA vice president Jack Warner has threatened to release a "tsunami" of corruption allegations against FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Warner said Tuesday he will make the allegations after former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam completes his appeal to the Court of Arbitration of Sport against a life ban for bribery.
"I have promised in the past a tsunami that would hit the FIFA, and indeed, it will come," Warner, a member of FIFA's ruling executive committee for 28 years, wrote in a letter to a newspaper in his native Trinidad.
A verdict in bin Hammam's appeal to CAS is not expected for several months.
The bribery scandal ended Warner's career in soccer when he resigned in June to avoid investigation of his role in arranging $40,000 payments for Caribbean voters during bin Hammam's election challenge to Blatter.
Warner's 1,300-word missive published by the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian stated that he and bin Hammam helped Blatter win "bitter" and "brutal" elections in 1998 and 2002.
He said his revelations would make FIFA's sponsors -- which include adidas, Coca-Cola, Sony and Visa -- "cringe with painful surprise."
The threats were published three days before Blatter will announce details of an anti-corruption drive promised when FIFA member nations gave the 75-year-old Swiss official a final four-year term unopposed in June.
"Blatter now suddenly sees the need to reform the FIFA from within in his last term of office and in the sunset of his days," Warner wrote. "This is hypocritical to say the least for it is public knowledge that his four terms of office have been dogged with controversy and allegations of corruption to which he has never responded."
Warner said he and bin Hammam backed Blatter's first campaign in 1998 and to secure re-election four years later, when the governing body was mired in a financial scandal.
"We took (Blatter) on a worldwide crusade through Africa and Asia begging for support for him, and he won!"
Warner recalled his first meeting with Petrus Damaseb, who chaired the FIFA ethics panel that expelled bin Hammam in July.
He implied that Damaseb, then Namibia soccer federation president, accepted a payment in 1998. FIFA introduced an ethics code in 2006 that prohibited cash gifts.
"I will tell the world what gift Bin Hammam gave to (Damaseb) which was not a bribe then as he has ruled today," Warner wrote.
The bribery scandal was sparked when whistleblowers from four Caribbean countries reported that cash was offered during bin Hammam's May 10 visit to Trinidad ahead of the FIFA vote for president.
A video of Warner urging Caribbean soccer leaders to accept their cash gifts was leaked last week and published on the website of Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Bin Hammam has claimed that Blatter and Chuck Blazer, the American FIFA executive committee member and Warner's longtime ally, orchestrated the bribery scandal because the bin Hammam was poised to take the top job at FIFA.
Warner calculated that his 25 Caribbean Football Union members were key because Blatter was leading the race by just a handful of votes. Because of the bribery allegations, Bin Hammam ended his election bid days before the June vote.
"It would have been an interesting encounter until the region was sold out to Blazer and Blatter," Warner wrote.
Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press
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