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Sunday, July 27, 2025

John-Williams responds to GML expose

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1773 days ago
20200918
Lead investigative reporter at Cnc3, MRk Bassant grills former TTFA president and Owner of W Connection John Williams during an interview at the Brechin Castle Golf Course, Couva last week Tuesday evening.

Lead investigative reporter at Cnc3, MRk Bassant grills former TTFA president and Owner of W Connection John Williams during an interview at the Brechin Castle Golf Course, Couva last week Tuesday evening.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Over the past few days, Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed (GML) has pub­lished sev­er­al ar­ti­cles in its Guardian news­pa­per and has car­ried sev­er­al news sto­ries on its tele­vi­sion sta­tion, CNC3, all cre­at­ed by Mr Mark Bas­sant, and in the course of which al­le­ga­tions of wrong­do­ing have been lev­elled against me in con­nec­tion with the con­struc­tion of the TTFA’s ‘Home of Foot­ball’ dur­ing my tenure as TTFA pres­i­dent. All of the al­le­ga­tions made against me are false.

Pri­or to pub­lish­ing these al­le­ga­tions, Mr Bas­sant, no doubt in an at­tempt to im­mu­nize him­self and GML from li­a­bil­i­ty for their fal­si­ty, am­bushed me on a golf course and in­un­dat­ed me with a se­ries of ques­tions and state­ments which I could not rea­son­ably be ex­pect­ed prop­er­ly to an­swer in the course of his am­bush. I give the un­qual­i­fied as­sur­ance that there are com­plete an­swers to all of Mr Bas­sant’s al­le­ga­tions. I have al­so been ad­vised that Mr Bas­sant’s at­tempt to im­mu­nize him­self and GML from li­a­bil­i­ty does not have the pro­phy­lac­tic ef­fect for which he and GML un­doubt­ed­ly wished, and that he and GML are both li­able for the false and defam­a­to­ry al­le­ga­tions con­tained and made in these ar­ti­cles and tele­vi­sion news sto­ries, which they con­tin­ue to pub­lish and to car­ry.

I have en­gaged at­tor­neys-at-law to ex­am­ine and to ad­vise me on the ma­te­r­i­al which I have in my pos­ses­sion and which is oth­er­wise avail­able to me and which lays bare the un­truth, the dis­tor­tions and the false­hoods con­tained in these ar­ti­cles and tele­vi­sion news sto­ries. Once my at­tor­neys-at-law have com­plet­ed their due dili­gence, I will be in­struct­ing the fil­ing of le­gal pro­ceed­ings against GML and Mr Bas­sant for these odi­ous and con­temptible al­le­ga­tions which have caused my fam­i­ly and my­self in­com­pre­hen­si­ble dis­tress.

Fur­ther, af­ter their re­view there­of and to the ex­tent that I am per­mit­ted by my at­tor­neys-at-law to do so, I al­so pro­pose to make pub­licly avail­able the ma­te­r­i­al which I have in my pos­ses­sion and which is oth­er­wise avail­able to me, which will show all of these al­le­ga­tions to be base­less. In the mean­time, I dep­re­cate in the strongest terms pos­si­ble GML’s and Mr Bas­sant’s at­tempts to el­e­vate sen­sa­tion­al­ism and char­ac­ter-as­sas­si­na­tion to the ranks of jour­nal­ism and I await my day in court when I will clear my name and cause GML and Mr Bas­sant to ac­count dear­ly for their li­bel.


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