Those Annual General Meetings

NEWS ON Annual General Meetings and Special General Members’ Meetings where elections are held have revealed that purges are taking place.

Late last year the Badminton Association got rid of the old executive and installed a virtually new one.

So far this year, the Guyana Basketball Federation, the Georgetown Football League and the Guyana Boxing Board of Control have all turned their executives inside out with precious few members of the old order retaining positions.

Some national associations, like the Cycling Federation, and area organisations seem not to be interested in undergoing that process and while they show this overt disinterest in affording the opportunity for change or a vote of confidence, the sport which they administer suffer along with the sportsmen involved.

It is no secret that many sports associations are inefficiently and ineffectively run, a clear indicator of the degree of interest shown by the larger group of administrators.

Many of these former sports administrators did not seek re-election, an indication that they had had enough or there was nothing in it for them personally or they were simply fed up.

The reality of the present situation is most of these associations are in states of comparative shambles and the new executives are now tasked with bringing them to some state of viability. The logical thing to do will be to start afresh and largely regard what transpired during the past periods as “water under the bridge.”

Most of these organisations are financially strapped and that must be the priority area of focus, new innovations to fundraising and administration will also have to be employed and the professional approach will have to be adopted in most of these organisations if they are to survive in the first place and develop beyond their present state.