OVER the next two days, members of the FIFA-chosen Constitutional Reform Committee will meet at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) in Georgetown where they will work on, and finalise a new constitution for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF). When the sport’s world governing body FIFA had removed president Christopher Matthias and installed the country’s first Normalisation Committee, apart from running local football the committee was tasked with amending the current constitution, getting it adopted and holding fresh elections.

The Clinton Urling-chaired Normalisation Committee will run until September 15 next year and answers to and can only be removed by FIFA.
Chronicle Sport was informed by Urling in a recent interview that FIFA’s Head of Member Associations, Primo Corvaro, facilitates the February 4-5 session after a January 30 meeting which aimed to solicit similar views from the GFF’s members and other interested football stakeholders.
“The Normalisation Committee and FIFA (who made the final call on all participants) selected the committee members for the two-day engagement. The members of the committee were all selected based on their professional background and ability to contribute to the process,” Urling had said.
Though the Normalisation Committee did not name the persons selected by FIFA to help reform Guyana’s football constitution, Chronicle Sport was informed that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament and Attorney-at-Law James Bond, president of the GOA and Attorney-at-Law K.A. Juman-Yassin, along with Alexei Ramotar, son of President Donald Ramotar, are among those who will preside over the process. (Rawle Toney)