The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) is currently focusing its attention on the formation of committees and the structuring of the administration of the clubs as well as re-registering clubs, among other matters.
This is according to GABA president David Carto while giving an update on his administration’s activities yesterday.
Carto, who was elected to the GABA post on February 13 last, explained to Stabroek Sport when contacted via telephone, that so far the new GABA executive has formed committees which are currently functioning.
The committees which have been recently formed following a meeting hosted by GABA with the basketball clubs in Georgetown are the Fundraising Committee and the Operations and Development Committee, the GABA head disclosed.
The committees will be responsible for, as their names imply, raising of funds for GABA-organised tournaments and other basketball-related activities and handling operations in organizing basketball activities to aid the development of the game.
Further, Carto noted that a GABA council has also been formed, comprising of one representative from each of the basketball clubs in Georgetown.
This council, he stated, will be responsible for finding solutions to issues surrounding the sport through the hosting of bi-monthly meetings.
Other items on GABA’s agenda that are in the early stages of execution, according to Carto, are the proper structuring of the clubs. He explained that the clubs will be submitting a proper administrative structure, highlighting its president, vice president and other members.
The GABA boss also declared that clubs as well as its players will have to be re-registered since amendments were made by the new administration to club and player registration forms and also player transfer forms.
Other areas GABA will be looking into according to Carto are the way in which statistics from GABA competitions are recorded and filed for referencing.
He stated that currently there is no proper way of referencing player statistics so GABA is planning to create a database, whereby players’ scores and other statistics can be recorded.
Carto also stated that GABA has proposed a schedule for a basketball tournament to the clubs, but the event will have to be held after the current Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) National Club Championships, which will conclude later this month.
