GFA EXECUTIVE REMOVED

St. George's, August 16, 2009 -- The Grenada Football Association has removed its sitting Executive Committee replacing it with a Normalization Committee headed by the sitting Speaker of the House of Representatives Dr. George Mc Guire.

In an extraordinary General Council meeting held at the Grenada Boys Secondary Saturday August 15th, 19 members of the GFA General Council voted unanimously to end the long running battle with President Ashley RAM Folkes and his Executive.

A previous attempt to unseat the now un-popular GFA President and his Executive failed in December last year when CONCACAF and FIFA representatives conducted the Removal meeting. The two representatives, Harold Mayne-Nicholls and John Collins itemized the failure of the then removal attempt.

In this corrected attempt the General Council followed the dictates of both FIFA and CONCACAF resulting in a legal quorum of 19 members of the GFA participating with an invitation sent to the GFA Secretariat inviting them to the meeting to give the Executive a chance to be heard in their defence.

Except for one member Wayne James, the remaining GFA Executive refused to either acknowledge the notice or to attend Saturday’s meeting.

The General Council mandated three of its members to ensure the Normalization Committee is given appropriate terms of references, one of them being, to prepare for fresh election of the GFA Executive by next year.

The meeting was conducted by an independent chairman Ray Roberts.