Joseph is new CANOC president

Versed sports activities administrator Keith Joseph of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is the brand new president of the Caribbean Affiliation of Nationwide Olympic Committees (CANOC).

Joseph earned nearly all of votes on the second and remaining day of the XX CANOC Basic Meeting, attended by 26 of the 30-member Nationwide Olympic Committees (NOCs) and Commonwealth Video games Federations (CGFs).

Joseph campaigned on a document of feat of the final CANOC govt, through which he served because the secretary basic, highlighted by their profitable staging of the 2022 Caribbean Video games in Guadeloupe.

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The Video games got here off after a 13-year hiatus between the initially deliberate one – scheduled for 2009 in Trinidad and Tobago – that was stymied by the H1N1 virus. The 2022 version too was postponed by one 12 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keith Joseph gained the presidency comfortably over his Jamaican challenger Christopher Samuda by a depend of 17-9, efficiently changing former president Brian Lewis to serve the 2022-2026 time period.

Lewis himself acquired the nod from the membership to function the secretary basic by a vote of 14-12 over Antigua and Barbuda’s Cliff Williams. The Virgin Islands’ John Abraham conceded the primary vice-president publish to the Cayman Islands’ Carson Ebanks by 16-10, whereas Ytannia Wiggins of Barbados (18) and Guadeloupe’s Alain Soreze (19) retained their govt member posts, beating Bruce Farara (14).

Edith Cox was returned unopposed as treasurer.

The Joseph-led administration will appoint a second vice-president because the publish was now tallied by way of nominations.