MSC Third VP speaks out. Warns PNC group Expressing sudden interest in entity

When a self-proclaimed band of ‘leaders’ appeared suddenly on the scene to manage the
Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC), Third Vice President, Mr. Audwin Rutherford, took it as a sign
that a hidden agenda is afoot.
“What I would rather see are stakeholders from a wide cross section (which) can include all the
political players but more so…persons who have more direct interests in sport clubs, sport
associations, (and) tourism bodies. Groups like that can call themselves stakeholders and they
should have an interest in Makenzie Sports Club,” Rutherford explained.
The unelected ‘leaders’ of the MSC summoned a meeting, and Rutherford was perplexed when
two current bona fide executives chosen at an Annual General Meeting in July 2019, attended.
Rutherford, who resigned from the Alliance For Change (AFC) after the coalition it was part of
lost the March 2020 bitterly divisive and controversial polls, blamed well-known Linden
businessman and former politician Mr. Phillip Bynoe for inserting himself as mediator without
consent from both sides.
Rutherford dismissed rumors about missing MSC monies as a reason for slow growth within the
sporting body. According to him, from June 2019 when he was elected Third Vice President,
there was a trickle of funding into the Sports Club’s coffers.
“There were no funds. In fact, I don’t know what you can be thieving when it’s not coming in
and most of us will accept that the entire of last year could call it a dead year apart from the first
two months of the year (because of the CORONA VIRUS pandemic). One must understand that
the new executive had no access to the ‘little’ pittances that was in the bank account,” Rutherford
explained.
He continued: “We had issues as we paid little bills (and) salaries to staff. There are five persons
employed at the MSC and you don’t get enough money to pay them. If the bar makes $1,000.00
a day that’s exceptionally good, and I can safely say that the bar doesn’t make $1,000.00 a day”.

Emphasising that the funds garnered by the MSC were exceptionally low and limited, Rutherford
pointed out an incident where the funds were so low that the executive didn’t have the required
amount to repair a computer.
“I recalled saying at one of the meetings that I will not be in an organization that wants
something to be done and I am not willing to care or (offer a) loan. I would have loaned
$28,000.00 to get that computer working. As I speak, the computer is not working, and it never
worked after the repairs and I was concerned for that,” the Third Vice President said.
Rutherford, like many Lindeners, is suspicious of the new group’s agenda because all of them
can be directly linked to the opposition APNU+AFC. The Regional Chairman, Vice Chairman,
Mayor and her Deputy feel this motley crew desperately wants control of the NICIL-owned
MSC.
Avery Trim is the current president at MSC and elections for new office bearers are expected in
June this year.
Rutherford’s is seeking to aggressively focus on community-improvement projects, he told
www.aroundtheregions.com.