THE GUYANA Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) as indicated via e-mails to affiliates that it intends to host its Annual General Meeting and Elections next Saturday from 15:00hrs, at a venue still to be named.According to one of the affiliated associations, this e-mail was sent out last Saturday (December 28) in an attempt to satisfy the mandate from the governing Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC), for which the GABF is an affiliate.
Such a mandate had stated all National Federations and Associations must hold their AGM and election of office bearers between November 1 and January 15, 2014, because on January 18, 2014 the CBC will hold its Annual General Assembly Congress.
According to the GABF, the list of officers, general council members and members who will be eligible to vote are affiliates from Georgetown, Linden and Berbice Amateur Basketball Associations, respectively; Guyana Basketball Officials Council, and the Guyana Women’s Basketball Association, which will each have two representatives and the current makeup of the GABF.
At the moment, the GABF is being headed by David Patterson (President), Vice President-Discipline Dawn Holder, Vice President-Operations Floyd Levi, General Secretary Michael Burnett, Committee Member Kirk Fraser and Abdulla Hamid, while the posts for Vice President – Public Relations and Treasurer had remained vacant.
The agenda for that meeting includes the confirmation of the Minutes from the previous General Secretary and Treasurer’s Reports and Election of office bearers for the 2014-2017 term of office.