Tag: Cayman Islands Football Association
CIFA cash lands in Watson and Webb accounts, crown says
(CNS): As the crown pressed on with its case against Canover Watson and Miriam Rodrigues Wednesday, the court heard how public funds found their way into banks accounts controlled by Watson and his long-term friend and business partner, Jeffrey Webb, as well as cash from the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA). As the prosecutor continued his […]
Swiss grant request for Takkas’ extradition
(CNS): Swiss authorities have approved the US extradition request for Costas Takkas, who was Jeffrey Webb’s assistant when he was CONCACAF president. Takkas, who was once a resident of the Cayman Islands and a general secretary with the Cayman Islands Football Association, was working for Webb as an attache in Miami after the local football […]
Swiss to extradite Esquivel, Trinidad agrees to give up Warner
(CNS): Jack Warner and Rafael Esquivel are both now facing extradition to the United States in the massive FiFA bribery and corruption investigation after both the Trinidad and Swiss authorities agreed to the American request. Warner (72), who was Jeffrey Webb’s predecessor as CONCACAF president, is accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes in the […]
Controversial turf finished on new CIFA pitch
(CNS): The acting president of the beleaguered local football association, CIFA, said Monday that the turfing project on the new pitch at the HQ in Prospect is finished. Bruce Blake said the goals and corner flags are scheduled to be set up Monday and Tuesday and a grand opening will take place later this month. […]
Viewpoint: CIFA – Vincit Omnia Veritas
Chris Johnson writes: It is now over three months since the news broke out about Jeff Webb and CIFA and much water but little information has flown under the bridge. What is still required from the current Executive Committee are explanations and transparency, a commodity in short supply at CIFA.
Webb heads to Georgia for cheaper house arrest
(CNS): A New York judge has granted permission for Cayman’s Jeffrey Webb to move his house arrest to his home in Atlanta, Georgia. The former FIFA vice president and CONCACAF president had applied for a change in his $10 million bail conditions so he could live at his house in Loganville, as he said he […]
CIFA boss leaves day job at Maples
(CNS): Bruce Blake, the acting president of the Cayman Islands Football Association, has reportedly left his lucrative position as a lawyer with an offshore firm to focus on his job at the helm of the beleaguered local football organisation. The decision comes following several months of controversy, beginning in May with the arrest of the […]
General secretary resigns from CIFA
(CNS): Paul Macey has resigned from the Cayman Islands Football Association just days after he and most of the other members of its executive committee were re-instated during the annual general meeting on Saturday. The news comes against the backdrop of a possible local corruption probe into the local football body after its annual audit […]
CIFA audit stalled over suspicions transactions
(CNS): Controversies relating to the Cayman Island Football Association got worse on Friday when the auditors confirmed that they were unable to complete the annual accounts for the association ahead of the AGM and elections Saturday. It is understood that as a result of unsubstantiated and suspicious transactions, which have been reported to the local […]
Viewpoint: Shame on CIFA, shame on clubs
101 writes: There is no wording or section or set of definitions in CIFA’s constitutional documents that makes it absolutely/technically clear that Nominations and Seconds of those nominations need to be carried out by four completely separate entities for the CIFA elections on Saturday.
Webb can’t afford NY house arrest
(CNS): The cost of financing his own house arrest in New York is driving Jeffrey Webb, the former CONCACAF president and FIFA Vice President broke, according to claims filed in the courts. Caught up in the massive FIFA corruption and bribery scandal, the Caymanian football boss was released by the US authorities on a $10 million […]
