The General Council of the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) yesterday voted unanimously to suspend president of the body, Aubrey Hutson indefinitely.
This is according to vice-president (VP) of the AAG, Sheryl Hermonstine who spoke to this publication yesterday.
Hermonstine stated that at the meeting yesterday at the Racquet Centre, “It was voted unanimously that Mr. Hutson be placed on indefinite suspension pending investigation from the CARIFTA Games.”
The VP, Hermonstine stated that she has now taken over the reins of the association pending the outcome of the investigation which will be conducted by an independent body.
Hutson, who has been at the helm of the AAG for the past decade has constantly come under fire. The most recent instance was prior, during and after the CARIFTA Games which were held in the Bahamas during the Easter weekend.
Tickets for the contingent were not booked early enough leading to bungled travel arrangements which hamstrung most of the athletes who arrived late on the day of competition.
Following that episode, Hutson was criticized by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) for potentially putting the track and field athletes in jeopardy of missing another international event.
In the press release from the GOA, it stated that “the Track and Field team’s participation at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in El Salvador and Dominican Republic from June 23 – July 8 is in limbo due to the submission of an incomplete and inadequate Long List [of] biographical information of athletes and non-submission of officials by the AAG.”
When contacted yesterday, Hutson stated that he thinks he needs to be absent from the sport for people to understand his true worth. He also stated that CARIFTA Games Team Manager, Keith Campbell “is the one to be blamed for all that transpired at CARIFTA”.
Hutson revealed that the clubs are the ones in the position of power and they will determine who leads them at the next AGM which is slated for next month.
“It is for the clubs now, they are the people with the power to determine what the executive of the association looks like. If they are happy with how it is now, so be it, I have given 11 years of my life to the discipline and if they need a change I will accept and move on,” Hutson concluded.
