Lalisa Anthony July 27, 2008

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Ms. Lalisa Anthony President / Commissioner Bahamas Youth Football Freeport, Grand Bahama

Dear Madame

Thank you once again for your communication. However the CAFL can not share with you, in congratulating the others of your organization you on their so called accomplishments of membership to the International Federation of American Football IFAF, as they have been achieved by fraudulent means. Your note of congratulation is directed to Bahamians whom I would be surprised would have been a part of what you have orchestrated.

For those who will read this communication, we in the Commonwealth American Football League of the Bahamas have been tolerating the self serving, aggressive and clandestine actions of Ms. Lalisa Anthony since she came into this country two years ago. Ms, Anthony, an American and Bahamians Stanford Duhaney and Renaldo Russell know very well what the CAFL’s position is on the matter of their operations as executive members of the Bahamas Youth Football / Bahamas American Football Federation which is not recognized by the CAFL the governing body for American Football in the Bahamas. The CAFL supports American Football played at any level in this country, however we cannot support persons whom wish to use this event to serve themselves. The CAFL does not take lightly that a person who is a non citizen can come into the country, would seek to use weak persons, set up shop and demand compensation for services. We take grave exception to Ms. Anthony’s motives where she would be seek local and international sponsor donations for the procurement of equipment for the play of youth football without cost and then wish to sell them to the players based on information received.

We take alarming exception to Ms. Anthony as the President and Commissioner of the Bahamas Youth Football / Bahamas American Football Federation, clearly a conflict of interest when it comes to management and we take grave exception that Ms. Anthony would seek to have coaches pay her office to cover, as she describes strategically, “her expenses”.

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July 27, 2008

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Communication to Ms. Lalisa Anthony Cont/.

July 27, 2008

Whereas many of you are not aware there is a thrust internationally to for the development of American Football. The PAFAF to which Ms. Anthony has subscribed is only two years old with a majority of countries whom have a limited number of years in playing American football. The Bahamas has played the sport of American football in an organized fashion for forty years under the administration of the Bahamas American Football Association BAFA or the Commonwealth American Football League CAFL longer than most countries in this region save the U.S. Canada and Mexico.

It is in this vein that Ms. Anthony came to “introduce” football to the Bahamas just two years ago, a statement she has perpetrated to international organizations for personal recognition and funding. To achieve her goals, membership to International Federations were a necessity and the misleading acts to accomplish this were executed as follows;

  1. In April of 2008 Miss Anthony, with the assistance of Bahamians Stanford Duhaney and Renaldo Russell as fronts misrepresented themselves as the Bahamas Youth Football / Bahamas American Football Federation to the Pan American Federation of American Football PAFAF in Panama as the governing body for American Football / Bahamas to gain membership. This group knew fully well that requirement for membership to the PAFAF was a governing status in the country of origin which they were not.
  2. Ms. Anthony, again with the assistance of Bahamians Stanford Duhaney received travel assistance from the Ministry of Sports to attend the PAFAF Congress in Panama. However the point of dishonesty is that they did not advise the Government that they were seeking membership to the PAFAF where they knew that a requirement for membership to the PAFAF was that they had to be the governing body in the country from which the application is applied.

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July 27, 2008

3. Ms. Anthony, with the misrepresented acquisition of membership status to the Pan American Federation PAFAF, so again misrepresented and misled the greater International Federation of American Football IFAF in Seville Spain on or before July 21 2008 to acquire membership into that organization. Again, a primary requirement for membership to the IFAF is a membership status to the PAFAF and governing status in the country of origin which they were not.

For the understanding of those whom Ms. Anthony congratulated, the achievement was gained based on an “act of misdeed “. Please be advised that the Ministry of Sports of the Bahamas had prior to the application for membership to the IFAF denied an application from Ms. Anthony’s group, the Bahamas Youth Football / Bahamas American Football Federation for Federation Status. This denial was instructed after the first misrepresentation to the PAFAF. The Ministry of Sports of the Bahamas also provided a direct diplomatic letter to the Robert Huber, the then General Secretary of the International Federation of American Football IFAF to advise that the Commonwealth American Football League is the recognized body for American Football in the Country of the Bahamas and not the Bahamas Youth Football / Bahamas American Football Federation. The letter was received and responded to by Mr. Huber and the CAFL was advised to direct the matter to the new General Secretary Mr. Hendrik Oenstroem which we have done. The CAFL response to all matters will be as follows;

  1. File a writ to the Bahamas Department of Immigration and Customs.
  2. File an official complaint to the Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  3. File a complaint to the United States Embassy / Bahamas based on the actions of one of its citizens in a violation of the sovereignty of a foreign country.

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Communication to Ms. Lalisa Anthony Cont/.

July 27, 2008

Additionally legal actions have been filed based on the illegal use of named persons in a Document of Support submitted to the Government of the Bahamas in an attempt to mislead and receive federation status by fraudulent means. We will seek to have Ms. Anthony et al charged with a violation to the right of sovereignty in respect to actions of misrepresenting the BYF/BAFF your organization, to International Organizations on behalf of the country of the Bahamas.

Unlike the misrepresentation to the PAFAF where Ms. Anthony deflected responsibility to Mr. Stanford Duhaney and Mr. Renaldo Russell we are confirmed that Ms. Anthony misrepresented this country to the IFAF in Seville.

To you Ms. Anthony, you must think that this country of the Bahamas is a subject of the United States. You are a non status foreigner whom we are advised possesses no work permit or any other status to be in this country other than a visitor. You seemingly have arrogated unto yourself the power to ignore that an official Government Ministry which advised you that the Commonwealth American Football League CAFL is the governing body for American Football in this country. Additionally you have arrogantly chosen to ignore a diplomatic letter from an official Government Ministry, signed on behalf of a Government Minister to achieve your personal goals in arrogantly marketing the sovereignty and flag of this country the Bahamas, without authoritative permission to the IFAF.

Your actions in our opinion should be an embarrassment to your great country and to us continentally as people of African decent. Your teary eyed pleas on behalf of the Bahamian youth, is greatly overshadowed by your indiscretions. Willfully so, it is now very clear that your personal objective overshadows any act of charity first promoted. Having been denied by the former, Minister of Sport, we are aware of your recent communications to Mr. Archie Nairn, the new Permanent Secretary Ministry of Youth & Sports and to the new Minister to persuade them to reverse previous orders which have failed. What you have failed to relay to them in your heap of E-mail communications is your indiscretions and lies to achieve membership to the PAFAF and the IFAF.

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Communication to Ms. Lalisa Anthony Cont/.
Please be advised that we will stop at nothing to stop you in your dishonest quests.

Your actions shall be broadcasted to every media, local and international organization, and the appropriate governmental institutions that are concerned. You really seem to think that you can influence this government to support you an illegal American governing a one year organization over a Bahamian organization with governing body status and of good standing of forty years where unlike to you, a penny was never paid or expended to anyone. We will not ask you to desist as that time is past.

We trust that you will cease and take our position seriously.

Yours Etc.
Michael A. Foster
Co-Chairman
Commonwealth American Football League

Cc. Hon. Desmond Bannister – Minister of Sports, Govt. of the Bahamas
Mr. Archie Nairn – PS Ministry of Youth & Sports – Govt. of the Bahamas Mr. Martin Lundy – Director of Sports / Govt. of the Bahamas Congressman Jack Kemp – Chairman USA Football
Tommy Wiking – President IFAF
Scott Hallenback – Executive Director USA Football / IFAF
Mr. Hendrik Oenstroem – General Secretary IFAF
Richard Munro – Continental Rep. PAFAF / Canada
Joe Browne – Exec. VP / Communications & Public Affairs NFL
Mr. Brent Stubbs – The Tribune / Nassau Bahamas
Mr. Gerino Saunders – The Bahama Journal
Mr. Ricardo Lightborne – ZNS Television / Freeport Bahamas
Mr. Charles Fisher – ZNS Television / Freeport Bahamas
Mr. Phil Smith – ZNS Television / Nassau Bahamas
Ms. Dahlia Smith – Freeport News / Nassau Guardian
Mr. Sheldon Longley – The Nassau Guardian
Hon. Obie Wilchcombe – Opposition Member / Parliament of the Bahamas Nassau Info Newsletter /

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