Mel Sankies was returned as President of Lusignan Golf Club at its Annual General Meeting held recently at the Club House at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.
The existing management committee was returned en bloc and two vacant positions were filled.
Ronald Bulkan remains the Secretary, also returned were Brian Hackett (Treasurer), Club Captain – Jerome Khan, Gavin Todd (Assistant Secretary Treasurer) and member Mike Mangal.
Esau Shamshudin and Mike Guyadin filled the vacant positions of Vice President and Grounds Superintendent respectively.
Troy Peters will once again perform the duties of Public Relations Officer.
The returning officer was Paul Chan-A-Sue.
The firm of Soloman & Parmessar was reappointed as auditors.
The meeting acknowledged the valuable contribution of the club’s late coach Basil Sukhram who died earlier in the year and observed a minute of silence in remembrance of him and Nand, a caddie who died during the period under review.
In his report, the incumbent president Sankies thanked members for the honour of entrusting him to be their leader and hoped that he and the management committee met their expectation. Among the achievements highlighted by him were a greater vitality in the club, accompanied by a larger and increasing membership. The well kept conditions of the golf course and club house also came in for high praise.
According to Sankies, the Club was keeping apace with debt servicing obligations incurred with the construction of the new clubhouse.
Thirty six tournaments were played off with 28 securing sponsorship while 21 tournament s were already played off for 2009, a fillip in the cap of the hype that golf has achieved recently.
The highly successful 2008 Smirnoff Guyana Open which attracted a record field of 72 competitors and with 23 players from Surinam , U.S.A. and Canada . The winners of that tournament was Imran Khan of Lusignan.
Most importantly he thanked the sponsors of the Guyana Open, Banks DIH Ltd. for their continued sponsorship of this the most prestigious tournament on the calendar and all the other sponsors of tournaments, among them being the following:
De Sinco Trading, Grand Coastal, Citizen Bank Ltd., Stabroek News, Vish Trading Company, Courts, Scotia Bank, Guyana Bank For Trade & Industry (GBTI), Guyana Telegraph & Telephone (GT&T), Demerara Mutual Ltd., Neal and Massy, Demerara Distillers Ltd. (DDL), MacCorp, Continental Group Of Companies, New G.P.C., Muneshwers Ltd., Roti Hut, Ansa Mcal, Ocean View International Hotel, Trophy Stall, Water Chris Hotel, Dask Enterprise.
