Greenidge & Haynes Owed $192,000

Financial trouble at one of Barbados' main tourism promotion agency agencies has trickled down to former West Indies opening batsmen Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes.

According to a newspaper report, money troubles as Gems of Barbados mean that it could not pay $192,000 owed to the legendary openers for work done to boost the Caribbean island's sports tourism profile.

At the end of March 2002, Greenidge and Haynes still owed gratuities for the years 2000 and 2001 to the tune of $117,000. Greenidge is owed $97,500 and Haynes is owed $94,500.

The two former cricketers inked six-year contracts in December 1998 to assist with the marketing of Gems in cricket-playing countries and help the Ministry of Education and Sport.