Shamfa Cudjoe, left, Darren Ganga, right

Darren Ganga denies claims made by the Minister of Tourism, Shamfa Cudjoe.

The minister is reported to have said Mr. Ganga brought a proposal before the board of the Tourism Development Company, for the funding of a Caribbean Premier League project in the sum of U.S $70,000.

But the former Trinidad and Tobago cricket captain, Mr. Ganga describes minister Cudjoe’s statement as “absolutely false and bereft of any merit”.

Minister Cudjoe, during her contribution to the budget debate in the lower house, claimed that after the ministry of sport refused to finance the CPL project, Mr. Ganga took the proposal before the TDC board.

In distancing himself from the allegation, Mr. Ganga explained yesterday that, after the former government purchased the rights to host the CPL semi-finals and finals earlier this year, the TDC was mandated to act as a coordinating company on behalf of the state.

In a release he said, based on this, the TDC board then moved to set up a local organising committee to deal with all the stakeholders of the event and that he was one of the three TDC board members who sat on the committee.

Mr. Ganga also announced his resignation as a director of the TDC.