Coronavirus forces GFF to postpone its annual ordinary congress

The Guyana Football Federation’s annual Ordinary Congress, which is constitutionally due on or before May 31 every year, has been postponed due to the damning presence of the Corona Virus pandemic.
It is only logical that the social distancing requirements to combat the disease would stall any such gatherings and this was communicated to the Regional Member Associations on May 5 by GFF’s General Secretary Ian Alves.
In the correspondence, Alves informed the membership that “alternative options / dates will be determined / guided by the dictates of the Government of Guyana (GoG) and the Ministry of Public Heath, and will be shared to all of the Members of Congress in due time.”
The Congress is the highest decision-making body of the GFF and it’s where all members regularly convene. Congress can be Ordinary or ExtraOrdinary.
In last year’s ordinary congress which convened on May 25, the GFF came to two significant resolutions.
The first resolution, which was unanimously passed, amended Article 10 (b) of the Constitution that had stipulated “the eight Elite Clubs” would form part of the GFF’s membership and replaced it instead with “the Elite Clubs.”This resolution was aimed at curing the defect that occurs whenever a club is relegated and replaced by another one.The second resolution was passed by majority after the presentation of the findings of a GFF-appointed inquiry into the long-festering issues surrounding the sale of hosting rights in the October 12, 2012 Guyana versus Mexico World Cup Qualification match.Other issues addressed in that resolution were the absence of evidence to indicate the reason for sale of hosting rights, and that the decision to play the game in the USA was the collective will of the GFF.