ACTING President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Franklin Wilson has been appointed to the Marketing and Media Committee of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and will serve until the Union’s elections in 2016.

The committee will be chaired by Cheney Joseph of Grenada who is also a vice-president of the CFU. The other members of the committee are Egbert Lacle (Aruba), Neil Cochrane (Antigua & Barbuda), Canover Watson (Cayman Islands), Hector Martinez (Puerto Rico) and Stanley Jacobs (St Kitts and Nevis).
According to the CFU, the committee will be guided by its terms of reference, the CFU Executive Committee Policies and the CFU Statutes (2012 Edition) and is expected to make a significant contribution to the transformation of the CFU that begun in December 2011 in Zurich, Switzerland and culminated with the election of a new executive in May 2012 in Budapest, Hungary.
The Marketing and Media Committee is a Standing Committee of the CFU.
CFU General Secretary Damien Hughes said that he has confidence that the committee will bring added value to the administration of football, and in particular, in the area in which it has been appointed to serve.
The goal of the committee is to also raise the professional, financial and visual profile, image and identity of the CFU through the effective use of the region’s media and the mutually beneficial relationships fostered between and among the CFU, government, civil society and the private sector.
Members of the committee will also provide support to CFU marketing events and initiatives and act as football ambassadors for CFU at Union and Confederation levels. Wilson also served as a member of the CFU Normalisation Committee and is a member of the FIFA Development Committee.
Diane Ferreira-James was appointed to the CFU Referees Committee.