JTTA dispute still not resolved – Davis

December 08, 2020
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Sisters Gianna Lewis (left) and Tsenaye Lewis of the Jamaica National Table Tennis team take part in a training session on Thursday, July 11, 2019 at the Gleaner Company (Media) Limited sports club.
File Sisters Gianna Lewis (left) and Tsenaye Lewis of the Jamaica National Table Tennis team take part in a training session on Thursday, July 11, 2019 at the Gleaner Company (Media) Limited sports club.
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Anthony Davis, chairman of the Dispute Resolution Foundation (DRF), the body in charge of settling the ongoing feud between Jamaica Table Tennis Association (JTTA) president, Godfrey Lothian, and challenger for the presidency Andrew Lue said the matter is yet to be resolved as there are issues still to be worked out.

Davis stated publicly late last week that they were looking to sign off on an agreement in couple of days, indicating that the parties were due to meet on the weekend.

But, according to the DRF chair, "Sometimes things don't go as you planned. And we still have issues to work out," he said.

"Once this thing has been resolved, we will make a public announcement, a joint statement issued by both teams."

However, he said it would be difficult to provide a timeline on when the matter would be concluded.

"Based on how things are working out, I don't know. I thought it would have been behind us by now.

"But I am committed to bring closure to my role in this. And I will encourage both parties to issue a joint statement saying they have resolved the issue regarding the delegates list and they can go forward with their AGM," he added.

Challenged the result

The dispute surrounding the JTTA leadership started in 2019 after Lothian defeated Karen Sinclair-Lym for his third term in office.

Lym challenged the result in court and won, as a result Lothian's victory and the constitution were ruled null and void.

At the start of the year, Lue replaced Lym as Lothian's challenger and demanded a creditable voters list and audits among other things.

But when the two parties failed to find common ground on which to restage the elections, Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) president, Christopher Samuda, was brought in to mediate the matter.

Samuda later recommended the DRF to assist in resolving the issues back in June.

However, STAR Sports investigations revealed that the two parties had agreed on the number of affiliates that should be on the delegates list and had signed off on a date (December 7), to sign the agreement.

It is understood that the document was prepared and printed awaiting the signatures

But on Saturday (December 5) one of the parties declared that he was not prepared to sign as there was an issue with one affiliate and since then things have hit another stalemate.

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