No interest in serving on SVGVA’s executive – Eardley Martin

When the St Vincent and the Grenadines Volleyball association (SVGVA) holds an Extraordinary General Meeting and elections this Saturday at the Girls’ High School, Eardley Martin will not be seeking the top post of president, nor any other position for that matter.

However, Martin, a former head of the SVGVA, re-affirmed to SEARCHLIGHT last Wednesday that whilst he will not be throwing his hat in the ring, he will work in the interest of the sport.

“Whoever is elected to the executive, I will support them and I will be working in the back court and help build back volleyball… build my club Unique Touch,” Martin revealed.

Martin also has some lingering memories about when he was removed from the post of president, back in 2013.

“It will be difficult for me to put myself up and ask the same people who got rid of me then, and come now and ask them to re-elect me… I will be in no position to judge what they will do,” Martin reasoned.

The sun set on Martin’s reign at the association’s Annual General Meeting in November 23, 2013, when he was walloped by Alana Mc Master, 12-3, in an unexpected outcome.

Mc Master and company, which also included Kemaul Lee – vice-president, Laela Constantine – secretary, Gary Matthias – treasurer and Oris Robinson, Nikita Campbell, and Nikeisha Lewis, as committee members, were elected to serve a four–year term at the association’s Annual General Meeting.

But the SVGVA was thrown into calamity last July 9, when Mc Master relinquished her position.

Mc Master, at an intended general meeting at the Girls’ High School, walked away from the process, thus cutting short her tenure by a year and four months.

This initiated a motion of no-confidence against the remaining members of the executive and made way for the installation of an interim committee, headed by Suzanna Leigertwood-Ollivierre.

Also included on that committee were Gary Constantine and Bretisha Spring, while Nikita Campbell and Gary Matthias were retained from the outgoing executive.

Tomorrow’s meeting is set to commence at 3 p.m., and apart from the much anticipated elections of a new executive, the agenda includes a report from Leigertwood-Ollivierre on her committee’s six months mandate, as well as any other business.(RT)