BASKETBALL enthusiast and president of the Plaisance Guardians basketball Club, Junior Hercules, was yesterday unanimously voted in as president of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) following the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Elections at Duke Lodge.Only Colts, Republic Bank Nets, Eagles, UG Trojans, Plaisance Guardians, Knights and Melanie Patriots were present with Dynas Ravens, TGH Pacesetters and Pepsi Sonics missing.

Hercules, who was nominated by Knights Basketball Club and seconded by Colts, was unopposed, receiving full support from all the clubs present.
Adrian Hooper will serve as vice-president, a position he also held under the Michael Singh-led GABA. He defeated Ewart Williams by 6-3 votes. Cheryl Thomas was elected as secretary, defeating Nadine Luthers-Williams also by a 6-3 vote count.
Joyce Sullivan was voted in as GABA’s new treasurer, doing so unchallenged and picking up eight votes in the process. Luthers-Williams was given the position of assistant secretary/treasurer, picking up nine votes.
“On behalf of the team, we would like to thank Michael Singh for pushing basketball over the last two years especially with respect to Georgetown basketball,” Hercules said in his first address to the clubs as president of GABA.
Hercules said that their focus will be on the development of the game and this will have to be done through a collaborative effort of all stakeholders.
The new GABA president pointed out that the former president left an indelible impression on the game in the city and as such, his new executives will be tasked to not only emulate Singh’s accomplishments, but also build on some of the foundations he (Singh) and his executives have set.
“I am not out of basketball,” Singh told the gathering at Duke Lodge, and promised to use his position as vice-president of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) to help out the sport and work along with Hercules and the new GABA to help enhance the game of Basketball.
(By Rawle Toney)