Rowe­na Williams, a hu­man re­source pro­fes­sion­al, is the new pres­i­dent of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF).

She earned her third term in of­fice af­ter serv­ing as pres­i­dent in 2010-2012; 2012-2014 and now 2021-2023; fol­low­ing Sat­ur­day’s vir­tu­al An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) which was al­so an elec­tion of of­fi­cers for a new term, by get­ting the bet­ter of Joseph Roberts for the lead­er­ship po­si­tion 62-41.

Cel­e­bra­tion of the re­sult be­gan soon af­ter the votes were count­ed to de­ter­mine the new pres­i­dent, al­though the fi­nal tal­ly of the en­tire re­sults was not com­plet­ed. The re­sult means Williams will now have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to de­liv­er on her promis­es, which in­cludes deal­ing with a dis­en­chant­ed fra­ter­ni­ty and re­pair­ing a fed­er­a­tion that has been bur­dened by a $2 mil­lion debt.

Williams al­so said she will deal with a sit­u­a­tion in which two T&T cy­clists could face the courts in a law­suit by the Roberts-led ad­min­is­tra­tion for equip­ment that was tak­en away from the fed­er­a­tion which is cur­rent­ly in a dis­pute.

Williams, who served as rac­ing sec­re­tary up un­til her el­e­va­tion and who has worked for many years in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the sports, had told Guardian Me­dia Sports re­cent­ly that the fra­ter­ni­ty has been lit­er­al­ly cry­ing out for change.

How­ev­er, her chal­lenger Roberts said he was hop­ing that the work he had done since re­plac­ing for­mer pres­i­dent Lar­ry Ro­many back in De­cem­ber 2019, would speak for it­self.

Williams’ slate has been rid­ing on the theme by the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee ‘Fu­ture is Fe­male’ and will form the new ex­ec­u­tive for the next two years with Rowe­na Williams (pres­i­dent), Cher­il Ann Mc Don­ald (Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary), Pa­tri­cia Le Blanc (Asst Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary), Claire Ann Lewis (VP Fi­nance), Reci­na Leo­taud (Trea­sur­er), Desmond Roberts (VP Rac­ing), Claire Orr (Rac­ing Sec­re­tary), Dahlia Maria Lopez (As­sis­tant Rac­ing Sec­re­tary) and Dawn Scott (Pub­lic Re­la­tion Of­fi­cer).

The AGM was held af­ter the gen­er­al mem­ber­ship amend­ed the con­sti­tu­tion on Feb­ru­ary 20, so that a vir­tu­al meet­ing could take place and al­so the vot­ing process can be ad­min­is­tered. Be­fore the AGM which will orig­i­nal­ly set for Jan­u­ary 30, some mem­bers chal­lenged the ex­ec­u­tive de­ci­sion to hold the meet­ing al­though the con­sti­tu­tion made no pro­vi­sion for a vir­tu­al meet­ing and the mat­ter of se­cret bal­lot­ing al­so be­cause of an is­sue.

The mat­ter re­quired le­gal ad­vice which was pro­vid­ed by at­tor­ney Ri­car­do Williams and ar­ti­cles 13.5 and 13.6 were amend­ed to fa­cil­i­tate an AGM un­der cir­cum­stances such as a coro­n­avirus (Covid-19) pan­dem­ic.