New GOA President, new hope

We might never know whether the courage displayed by the Guyana Olympic Association’s membership (GOA) to oust its longest serving president ever, was natural or influenced.

However,   the vote to impose  the 70-year-old age limit rule that would eventually end 76-year-old  K. Juman Yassin’s mammoth 26-year reign atop one of the country’s  most powerful  national ruling bodies, is the most earth shattering news from the organization since pugilist Michael  Parris won Guyana’s first Olympic medal more  than 40 years ago