HEADLINE: Former Tallawahs hierarchy prefer to stay in Antigua & Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda Falcons Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jeff Miller says the franchise has received better support from that nation’s Government than when it operated as the Jamaica Tallawahs.

This is the Falcons’ first season in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 cricket tournament since changing territories, and Miller, the former Tallawahs CEO, describes the new relationship with Antigua and Barbuda as fruitful.

“I’d say it’s been a bit more cooperative because they wanted to have a franchise here,” Miller said during an interview on Antigua Observer Radio’s Good Morning Jojo Sports Show recently. “When you’re wanted, it generally gets a lot easier.”

The Tallawahs complained for several years about sustainability because of poor crowd attendance and what it considered insufficient funding from the Jamaican Government, leading it to experiment with home games in Lauderhill, Florida, in the 2018 season.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Caribbean people, and WI cricketing crowds, have too much melanin for Tourism Jamaica. They don’t cater to them.

They can stay there. The Talawahs was not a national team it was a franchise made up by foreign players and owned by foreign investors. The profits made by those investors was theirs and theirs alone. Yet they wanted to exploit the globally recognized brand Jamaica and expect the government to subsidize them with tax payers money. Carry you skunt ��

In reply to TyTy35

SO, why they in talks with an IPL owner to get a franchise for CPL?

So, what support does a private enterprise of this sort need?

Are you guys familiar with the term "public good"?

It is a service that members of the community can enjoy and it is funded by Government through taxes it collects from those same members of the community. Not all government ventures are/or has to be for profit ....

In reply to Kay

So a multimillion-dollar sport is a public good?

In reply to TyTy35

I’ll bounce up with you at Kentucky fry chicken.

to ketch a ride on the Beijing highway in jamdown.