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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>JFF executives split on 'election motion'</SPAN>
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Monday, January 22, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>Well-placed sources within the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) say that an executive meeting of its board on Saturday ended with differing views relating to election issues.<P class=StoryText align=justify>It is understood that a motion reportedly moved by Ambassador Stewart Stephenson - president of the powerful KSAFA confederation - which seeks to, among other things, bring forward the November polls, allegedly received majority support from voting board members.
Of 20 board members, our sources said, nine supported the motion, one person voted against and 10 abstained because "they were not prepared".<P class=StoryText align=justify>But those who supported the motion are said to be unhappy as it was not recognised at that time by the JFF. This raised questions about whether or not the process was in keeping with the constitution.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Efforts to contact general secretary of the JFF Burchell Gibson to shed light on the constitution proved futile.
Yesterday, Ambassador Stephenson, who is a trained lawyer, refused to comment saying only that "I am waiting to hear from them," apparently referring to president Crenston Boxhill and Gibson.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The only dissenting vote on the motion was said to have come from attorney Heron Dale, the JFF disciplinary chairman, who is known to be a staunch supporter of Boxhill and the current administration.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Boxhill-led JFF has come under heavy slack from some of the game's stakeholders, who often question the organisation's performance since Boxhill took office in 2003.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Just last year, Boxhill and his administration survived a no-confidence motion reportedly moved by supporters of former JFF president, Captain Horace Burrell, at the last congress. That motion received the most votes, but could not meet the two-thirds majority which is required for it to carry.<P class=StoryText align=justify>
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Monday, January 22, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>Well-placed sources within the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) say that an executive meeting of its board on Saturday ended with differing views relating to election issues.<P class=StoryText align=justify>It is understood that a motion reportedly moved by Ambassador Stewart Stephenson - president of the powerful KSAFA confederation - which seeks to, among other things, bring forward the November polls, allegedly received majority support from voting board members.
Of 20 board members, our sources said, nine supported the motion, one person voted against and 10 abstained because "they were not prepared".<P class=StoryText align=justify>But those who supported the motion are said to be unhappy as it was not recognised at that time by the JFF. This raised questions about whether or not the process was in keeping with the constitution.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Efforts to contact general secretary of the JFF Burchell Gibson to shed light on the constitution proved futile.
Yesterday, Ambassador Stephenson, who is a trained lawyer, refused to comment saying only that "I am waiting to hear from them," apparently referring to president Crenston Boxhill and Gibson.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The only dissenting vote on the motion was said to have come from attorney Heron Dale, the JFF disciplinary chairman, who is known to be a staunch supporter of Boxhill and the current administration.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Boxhill-led JFF has come under heavy slack from some of the game's stakeholders, who often question the organisation's performance since Boxhill took office in 2003.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Just last year, Boxhill and his administration survived a no-confidence motion reportedly moved by supporters of former JFF president, Captain Horace Burrell, at the last congress. That motion received the most votes, but could not meet the two-thirds majority which is required for it to carry.<P class=StoryText align=justify>
- T.K.
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