Dear Editor,
I HASTEN to respond to a letter, briefly, by Rawle Welch (KN 03.02.18) “Sealey struggling to convert thinking.”
In a subsequent missive, I’ll deal with the individual’s over-indulgence in polemics, which is definitely not suited for public discourse, but rather, the Haags Bosch landfill site.
I’m amused that this individual, who in the past as a sports journalist with the Kaieteur News, had often resorted to the column space for utilisation to promote two consecutive presidential nominees of the Guyana Football Federation.

In the same breath, denouncing both of the challengers. K. Juman Yassin, S.C, President, Guyana Olympic Association also was not spared ahead of the GOA’s AGM, in seeking re-election. Why? Two challengers had their respective resumes enhanced.
Meanwhile, since Welch has incriminated me by name as “blind loyalty to his employers and he is afraid to point to for fear of payback,” Welch has descended into the “gutter of his once vibrant mode as a sports writer.”

It’s rather unfortunate that constructive criticism can’t be accepted with the deserved smile and striving towards rectifying the situation. Why hadn’t the individual kept a meaningful exchange, with intellectual content rather than mudslinging, name-calling, distortions, half-truths, libel, lies and slander?

Editor, it’s for this simple reason I’ll have no other option than to pursue legal proceedings against Welch, who will have his day in the court of law; towards justifying my employers, place of employ, circumstantial, photographic and supportive evidence of weekly/fortnightly/monthly- wages/salary. Indeed, the world has moved on, but cricket the gentleman’s game; the game of glorious uncertainty; has borrowed/copied a thing or two from FIFA, and the NBA towards enhancing its marketability and administrative acumen.

As a consequence, the last time I had a brief exchange with Welch was during the last quarter of 2017, outside of DEMICO. The individual was in the company of a former national footballer, coach and an executive coordinator of competitions and tournaments. Welch my friend and definitely not brethren had expressed his dismay of “My penmanship towards privately run five-a-side competitions/tournaments”, citing “I’ve lost all respect for you and in due course will respond.”

It’s a pity it took him a little over three months, a poor reflection of an esteemed, once acclaimed Sports Journalist Of The Year. If Welch can disclose publicly, who tickled him, causing him to whine, he can rest assured I’ll drop the “lawsuit”! While also assuring him that Juman Yassin, SC, isn’t my defence lawyer or I’ll have no other option than to seek legal recourse, since the GRA would also be filing a claim for unpaid taxes.

Respectfully yours,
Lester Sealey