EXECUTIVES of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) has called an extraordinary meeting with the aim of installing an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to manage the affairs of the Federation until the Annual General Meeting is held during the first quarter of 2019.
The meeting which is fixed for November 30 at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) headquarters, High Street, Georgetown will see club representatives offer their opinions on the current state of the sport locally.
According to one executive who prefers not to be named, things have not been going right with the federation since the current executive was elected to office in June last year.
The official said for one, the incumbent president, Horrace Burrowes, a United States businessman, , has been in Guyana “maybe once or twice since his election to office and this is totally unacceptable”.

According to the executive, some members of the executive are totally fed up at the way the Federation is conducting its affairs since the new executive was elected to office last year June.
The former national cyclist said the administration of the sport is being done in a haphazard manner and more needs to be done in order for the sport to blossom locally, regionally and internationally, thus taking the sport to a higher level and will see local cyclists make an impact on the Regional level and further afield.
He said clubs have already been informed of the extraordinary meeting which aims is to install an IMC.
“We need inclusiveness, we need for people from all over the country to see cycling, we need to spread the sport and most of all, we need to remove those incompetent office-bearers,” the official stated.

Burrowes has been given the mandate of leading the sport until 2019, and narrowly defeated the incumbent Cheryl Thompson by one vote, 6 to 5 as eleven clubs did cast one vote each.
Veteran cyclist Paul Choo-Wee-Nam was elected First VP following a three-way race with himself, Mark Conway, who was eliminated after the first round of voting, and Malcolm Sonoram by a similar 6-5 margin.
The AGM had its challenges as no Audited Financial Report was presented, just a normal report which was presented by William Howard the former treasurer (ag) who called for a total audit of the federation’s accounts from 2011 citing the lack of accountability by a number of persons, whose names he did not call, for poor stewardship.
Former president Thompson in her report had also chided former executive members for their lack of commitment as many meetings did not come off for want of a quorum.

There was no smooth sailing in the conduct of the AGM as the previous executive clearly did not prepare the relevant documents to be circulated as per Constitution.
But even as that was the case, the eleven clubs present had collectively stated that they were there to change the course of the sport for the better. Constitutionally, the AGM was due since March last year.
New president, Horace Burrowes, in his acceptance speech, had thanked the clubs for showing confidence in him and had promised that there would have been many changes for the better in the first year of the new Executive.
Burrowes had said then that residing in the USA would not affect his effectiveness as president since he is home for four to five times yearly, spending over one month on each occasion.