AFTER more than three years without the staging of an annual general meeting (AGM), Netball Jamaica (NJ) is scheduled to announce the date for the elections of its board members on Friday.

Simone Forbes, Netball Jamaica’s first vice-president, told the Jamaica Observer that the organisation’s members, who are very anxiously waiting to know the AGM date, will be notified this afternoon.

“The board will be notifying the members of a proposed date, which is in 2024, and so that is to go out to [the] membership, and once that goes to the membership and is accepted, then we will know the date of AGM,” she noted.

All current positions in NJ, including the presidency and the directorship roles, are up for re-election this year. Incumbent President Tricia Robinson is currently serving her second term.

She has been at the helm of NJ since February 2020 when she succeeded Paula Daley-Morris, who led the organisation for four years.

The last Netball Jamaica AGM was held in 2021 at Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.

Robinson has remained coy about whether she will be seeking re-election. Efforts to get a comment from Robinson on Thursday were futile as several calls to her mobile phone went unanswered.

Forbes, a former captain of the Sunshine Girls senior team, stressed that the NJ board will be putting systems in place to ensure that the AGMs are kept whenever they are constitutionally due, so that everything runs smoothly in the organisation.

“I am happy that we are going to be having the AGM — and we should never go back to this place where it is more than a year outstanding as it relates to having an AGM,” she noted. “This should not happen again, and this is something that the board has discussed and has decided that we need to have measures in place to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.”

Forbes said the audited financial report has not been completed as yet, but she remains confident that it will be done in time for the AGM.

“The audited financial report has not yet been completed but I think that will happen before the date of the AGM. The elections will definitely be held in 2024.”

— Robert Bailey