As I said before I am all for finding out from Jackula and he croonies what de hell they doing wid we money....
As for the Fuentes situation I raised the point (cuz I don't know), what is the procedure are you supposed to get invited or can you just show up? He is an accredited media person who stated that he would usually attend press conferences before without trouble. De Sports Ministry should have dealt with it decisively the moment he arrived and tell him to leave.
I don't know who you work for...but could you show up at the press conference with a video camera and filming...do you think? The accreditation of journalist being the shambolic mirage that it is aside...when last
have you has ANYONE known Shaun Fuentes to function in any capacity other than that of TTFF Media Officer? As I stated before he has held himself out to be nothing more than the mouthpiece of the TTFF the past several years...why then should he complain when that is exactly how people treat him? He does not act like a journalist, so he should not be surprised when he's treated accordingly, no?
So...him NOT being a journalist (in the eyes of the Sports Ministry), he has no business at a press conference for the media. He's seen as a TTFF...representative (taking all inferences most favorable to him), and the TTFF pointedly declined to present themselves for accounting so he was made to feel uncomfortable. Treat it as a technicality if you want, but from the account Hunt never asked him to leave, nor ask that he leave. Ms. Nunez was asked by Fuentes is he should leave, and she informed him that it probably would be best. A fair inference is that word came from Hunt...but there's no actual indication that it did...is there?
And to say that Fuentes is not media or a journalist because he has yet to defend Lasana is not fair, Lasana has been "battling" Jack by himself and doesn't have the full support of his media colleagues.
And it the question has been raised before, can we really expect Shaun to speak out against the TTFF??...
Please don't engage in selective reading...at no point did I imply that Fuentes wasn't a journalist because he didn't defend Lasana. What I DID say is that he should be the last person to complain about being rudely treated (especially in his capacity as a 'journalist'), since his own masters are known for their hostility and uncouth behavior (including such directed at other journalists...Lasana and Andrew Jennings most notably).
As for the latter question whether we can really expect Shaun to speak out against the TTFF...why not? Isn't he a full-fledged media person? Isn't he a 'freelancer'?? Why can't he...as a freelancer, speak out against what is OBVIOUSLY wrong? Or is the implication that he cannot speak out since he's in the employ of Jack Warner? Since that is the implication (answering my own question)...since he's at all times mindful of what he says about his employer...then he cannot claim to be a journalist...whose job it is to report the news with an impartial, observant and at times critical eye. Discovery (as in revealing, not 'finding') of the truth is the foundation of journalism and Shaun Fuentes has not lived up to that standard...I challenge you to prove otherwise. That being the case he doesn't get the right to call himself a journalist whenever it meets his fancy.
I know some of you are defensive of Fuentes because allyuh friendly with the fella...pardon my assumption if that doesn't apply to you....but is this friend friend thing that continues to retard the progress of Trinidad in far too many quarters. What's right is right...and what's wrong can never be right...friend or no friend.