Patrick Haynes, General Secretary of the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) was elected to the helm of the Central American and Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CONCENCABA), when the entity staged its General Assembly and Elections yesterday in Miami, USA.
This was confirmed by an official release from the GBF.
According to the correspondence, Haynes defeated former Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) chief Glyne Clarke of Barbados for the position to become the first Guyanese to head CONCENCABA. He will also serve as the FIBA Americas’ 1st Vice-President.
Meanwhile, Mexican and President of the Confederación Centroamericana de Baloncesto (COCABA) Modesto Robeldo will serve as Haynes’ 1st Vice-President, while Interim CBC President St. Lucian Leslie Collymore is the 2nd Vice-President. Sabrina Mitchell of St Vincent and the Grenadines is the CONCENCABA Secretary.
The CBC At Large Members are Claire Mitchell of Trinidad and Tobago and Kenneth Vrojijk of Aruba. Likewise, the COCABA At Large Members are Jair Peralta of Panama, and Frank Martinez Arias of Costa Rica.
“The GBF was represented by Vice President Rawle Toney and Technical Director Sileena Arjune at the important CONCENCABA event at the Novotel Hotel in Miami,” the release stated.
Established in 1926, CONCENCABA is a subset of FIBA Americas with mirrored powers and responsibilities for its geographic jurisdiction, which is Central America and the Caribbean.
Presently, the national member associations affiliated to CONCENCABA by the FIBA Central Board are: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
