T&T's Mush­taque Mo­hammed was re­turned as pres­i­dent of the Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CA­ZO­VA), to serve a sev­enth straight four-year term, at the body’s con­gress held at The Brix Ho­tel, Coblentz Av­enue, Sun­day.

The 61-year-old Pi­paro-born Mo­hammed has been in the po­si­tion since 1994, ex­cept for one year, and was re-elect­ed yes­ter­day via an 8-4 vote count in his favour over lone op­po­nent, for­mer CA­ZO­VA trea­sur­er Mar­garette Gra­ham of Haiti to serve un­til 2027.

The con­gress was at­tend­ed by 12 of 14 as­so­ci­a­tion mem­bers and was held un­der the su­per­vi­sion of North, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and Caribbean Vol­ley­ball Con­fed­er­a­tion (NORCE­CA) Pres­i­dent Cristóbal Marte Hof­fiz.

The as­so­ci­a­tions present in­clud­ed Aru­ba, Bonaire, Cay­man Is­lands, Cu­ra­cao, Guade­loupe, Haiti, Ja­maica, Suri­name, Bar­ba­dos, Ba­hamas, US Vir­gin Is­lands, and T&T.

The Turks & Caicos Is­lands had to with­draw from at­tend­ing the con­gress at the last minute while the Mar­tinique board is not in good stand­ing and was not al­lowed to vote at the con­gress.

The oth­er mem­bers of the new ex­ec­u­tive in­clude the re-elect­ed trio of Cay­man Is­lands' Kennedy Mc­Gowan (first vice-pres­i­dent); Bonaire's Gisette Emer ( Sec­ond vice-pres­i­dent), Ja­maica's Jacque­line Cow­an (sec­re­tary gen­er­al) and Board Mem­ber Filom­e­na Daniel-Curiel of Aru­ba along with with new­ly ap­point­ed Ba­hami­an Kirk­wood Green (trea­sur­er), and Board Mem­ber, Ja­maican-board Mark Lewis of Bar­ba­dos.

In ad­di­tion, Mar­tinique's Phillipe Lirus was elect­ed as an hon­orary CA­ZO­VA Board Mem­ber and T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) pres­i­dent, Daymi­an KE Stew­art al­so re­tained his post as CA­ZO­VA's ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, a role that is not an elect­ed po­si­tion.

Mo­hammed was first elect­ed in­to an ad­min­is­tra­tive role in 1988 as the as­sis­tant sec­re­tary of the TTVF and, by May 1989, he was pro­mot­ed to sec­re­tary gen­er­al; a post he held un­til 1992 when he be­came pres­i­dent of the TTVF and served in that post un­til No­vem­ber 2012.

Cur­rent­ly, the Hon­orary Life Pres­i­dent of the TTVF, in 1993 af­ter the suc­cess­ful host­ing of the third CA­ZO­VA Cham­pi­onships, he re­ceived the Jef­fery Stollmey­er’s Sport Ad­min­is­tra­tors Award fol­low­ing which he was elect­ed pres­i­dent of the CA­ZO­VA a year lat­er.

In 1996, he was elect­ed by the NORCE­CA as vice pres­i­dent and still serves in this po­si­tion and al­so joined the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee in 1997 as an ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber and served for eight years un­til 2005 af­ter which he then served an­oth­er eight-year term as vice pres­i­dent, un­til April 2013.

A for­mer teacher at the San Fer­nan­do Tech­ni­cal In­sti­tute in the Civ­il En­gi­neer­ing De­part­ment for 25 years, Mo­hammed then joined the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) in 2007 as a se­nior sports of­fi­cer in the Acad­e­my of Sport and Leisure Stud­ies.

He is the hold­er of an In­ter­na­tion­al Mas­ters in Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion Man­age­ment from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Poi­ter, France, and an In­ter­na­tion­al Mas­ters in Sports for De­vel­op­ment from UTT.

In No­vem­ber 2009, Mo­hammed was elect­ed to the board of ad­min­is­tra­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (FIVB) and is the sec­re­tary of the De­vel­op­ment Com­mis­sion at FIVB.