United States Guyanese businessman Horace Burrowes defeated Cheryl Thompson six votes to five to become the Guyana Cycling Federation’s (GCF) president when the Federation held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday at Olympic House, High Street, Georgetown.Burrowes, a former national cyclist, in his acceptance speech thanked the clubs for showing confidence in him and promised that there will be many changes for the betterment of the sport during his tenure. He said he is looking forward to working with the clubs and every executive under his watch will be dutiful to raise the federation to what it is suppose to be.
According to Burrowes, being based in the United States will not affect in any way, since he comes home to Guyana four or five times yearly and on each occasion he spends about one month. Apart from that he will keep in regular contact with the Federation’s executive by way of telephone.
He expressed his gratitude to Racing Secretary Hassan Mohamed who was re-elected to the post and Mohamed’s assistant Joseph Britton for their services over the years “their service to the sport more often than not, go unnoticed” Burrowes stated.
The other positions on the executive were filled by new faces as veteran cyclist Paul Cho-Wee-Nam, businessman Andrew Arjoon and Jerome Allicok were elected first, second and third vice-presidents respectively.
The Federation’s new secretary is Maria Leung, while Rosanna Sookoo is the new treasurer, taking over from William Howard who was acting in that capacity for the past three years.
Leung, Sookoo and Mohamed were all elected unopposed.
Cho-Wee-Nam defeated Malcolm Sonaram for the first vice-president position by a 6-5 margin and
Arjoon defeated Okel Arthur by a similar margin for the second vice-president position.
The new executive will start working almost immediately, as the national cycling championship is set for this weekend.