One of the most important elections for sports associations in recent times takes place Wednesday at Olympic House, 76 High Street when members of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), an affiliate of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sit to deliberate before deciding on the office bearers for the next four years.
The upcoming elections, which forms part of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the body, attracted a great deal of attention simply because of the recent sustained criticism of GOA president Kalam Azad Juman-Yassin, who will be seeking another four-year term in office.
Juman-Yassin has been the GOA president for 20 years. He took over from the now deceased Justice Rudolph Harper, who served as GOA president from 1984 to 1996.