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Georgetown clubs mulling no-confidence against GABA

Jan 18, 2012 Sports

 

 

By Edison Jefford
After a year of ineptitude and non-performance, Georgetown’s Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) could find itself without the support of affiliated clubs as there is a coordinated effort to have the association out of the driver’s seat of basketball in the city.
Kaieteur Sport understands that there is a plot underway to have a no-confidence motion moved against the GABA. In fact, several Georgetown-based clubs were expected to meet on Burnham Basketball Court last week to go over the no-confidence proposal.
Rain foiled the meeting of the clubs last week, but it did not change the plan of some clubs to get the GABA out of office. It is unclear when the clubs will actually issue the sub-association with the document expressing no-confidence in them to manage basketball.
A new Georgetown executive took over basketball early last year replacing the Trevor Rose-led administration. However, since taking office, the new association has only hosted a controversial Pre-Season Knockout Tournament late last year.
The tournament was brought to a stalemate after Pacesetters withdrew from the semi-finals after supporting its belief that the competition was a violation and an eye-pass. The club was of the belief that the tournament was a mere facade for an inactive association.
In fact, Pacesetters have refused to register with the association in an attempt to protest the lack of basketball in the city and programmes aimed at basketball development. This newspaper was reliably informed that Pacesetters is among the architects of the no-confidence motion, but with the club not being registered the validity of motion could be questioned.
Since coming to office last year, the GABA have not held a major competition or media briefing to signal a serious intention of propelling the sport greater heights. With the President of GABA being a senior Banks DIH Official, it was widely thought that the sport in the city would be in for an unprecedented up-surge in corporate support.
Unfortunately, that was not the case and clubs in Georgetown were left with their sneakers laced in their lockers wondering when they will take the courts in a major way. In a year, basketball in the strongest sub-association block has been reduced to fiction.
This newspaper understands that the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation has been noting the ineptitudes of both the Georgetown and Linden sub-associations and will be getting help from an overseas-based individual to develop programmes to assist them.

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