Leslie Collymore
The St. Lucia Basketball Federation (SLBF) held its annual general meeting on Saturday February 2, 2014 at the Olympic House with a quorum of 11 affiliates and a Ministry and Youth Development and Sports official.
The proceedings began with an opening prayer by former second vice president Glen Guiste.
Following this, the President Leslie Collymore gave brief welcome remarks and a review of the initiatives which the SLBF conducted in 2013 based on its calendar of events. He also gave insight as to what is still left to be done.
In his remarks, he listed of a number of upcoming 2014 initiatives. Some are as follows: 2014 National League Tournament, 3×3 Basketball, 2014 Commercial Basketball League, Mini Basketball Program, 3×3 FIBA Workshop, OECS Championships, Creole Basketball Championships, Women’s Basketball and more.
The General Secretary Velica Augustin provided a brief summary of the CBC (Caribbean Basketball Confederation) Congress, held on January 18, 2014 in Puerto Rico. She attended that forum on behalf of the federation.
Subsequent to Augustin’s summary, Emmanus, the out-going Treasurer of the SLBF presented the organization’s 2013 Financial Report. Upon completion of this, the registration of new affiliates and re-affiliation of teams/clubs was undertaken.
General elections were held since the initial two-year term had come to an end. That process was conducted by Ligorius Marquis of the Ministry of Youth, Development and Sports and saw the election of a new executive of the SLBF for 2014 -2018 term as follows:
Leslie Collymore – President
Jonathan Cox – 1st Vice President
Benise Joseph – 2nd Vice President
Wendell Scheek – Treasurer
Velica Augustin – General Secretary
Laurah John – Assistant Secretary
Neil Joseph – PRO
The president then welcomed the new executive members and the meeting was concluded. A vote of thanks came from General Secretary Augustin.