The Fifth Congress of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) saw a lively reshuffling of its leadership, with Tino Barovier elected president and Locksley Comrie and Donat Crichton stepping into the first and second vice-president roles. Three new faces joined the council while some incumbents were replaced, signalling a fresh chapter for the governing body.

Published Monday, September 17, 1973

Barovier is new JFF boss

Gleaner Sports reporter

A RECORD NUMBER OF 60 delegates attending the Fifth Congress of the Jamaica Football Federation at the Montego Bay Cricket Club yesterday elected 43-year-old JBC Assistant Manager Tino Barovier unopposed as president for the next two years.

The lively meeting reshuffled the vice-presidential positions, bringing in 33-year-old civil engineer Locksley Comrie as first vice-president over the acting incumbent, insurance man Lincoln 'Happy' Sutherland, by a 29 to 22 margin, and 38-year-old service station proprietor Donat Crichton (37 votes) as second vice-president over Dr Winston Dawes (18 votes) and Winston Lewis (5 votes), in a three-way race.

Forty-four-year-old acting Superintendent of Police Barry Cross, who was treasurer of KSAFA for eight years and has been treasurer of the JFF for the past four years, was returned unopposed as rteasurer, while 45-year-old FIFA referee and XLCR school teacher Glen Neil-Dwyer, B.Sc. (Technical Education), M.A. (Education), and MRCT (Master of the Royal College of Teachers), was re-elected as honorary secretary, defeating St George's College sports master Joseph Sanguinetti 39-21 in a two-way contest.

The new council will feature three new faces as Lincoln Sutherland, Conrad Ball, and Lester Richards were dropped. Brought in to complete the panel were Dr Winston Dawes, 25-year-old medical practitioner and president of the St Thomas FA; Hugh Perry, 35-year-old manager of Dragon Bay Hotel and president of the Portland FA; and Lensley Wolfe, 33-year-old attorney-at-law, who is first vice-president of the St James FA and a member of the St James Cricket Board of Control.

The new governing body of the Jamaica Football Federation for the 1973–1975 period now reads:

President: Tino Barovier (15 years as a soccer administrator)

First vice-president: Locksley Comrie (four years as a soccer administrator), director of National Sports Limited and former KSAFA president

Second vice-president: Donat Crichton, president of the St. James FA and member of the Jamaica Cricket Board of Control

Secretary: Glen Neil-Dwyer

Treasurer: Barry Cross

Committee Members: George Prescod, 51-year-old sports manager in the Ministry of Youth and Community Development and former Jamaica footballer, now national soccer coach and Jamaica Cricket Board member; Winston Lewis, 31-year-old farmer and president of the St Elizabeth FA; Jimmy Carnegie, 35-year-old deputy headmaster of Jamaica College, director of National Sports Ltd., member of the JAAA executive, and KSAFA disciplinary committee member; Patrick Anderson, 40-year-old training officer at Alcan Jamaica's Kirkvine Works and former Boys' Town cricketer and footballer; Howard Bembridge, 52-year-old superintendent of buildings in the S. Ann Parish Council, Jamaica Cricket Board member and selector, life member, and former president of the St. Ann F.A.

Lester Richards, who did not secure one of the first eight committee positions and who has served football in Jamaica for 37 years, was nominated for Life Membership by President Tino Barovier. The nomination was rousingly and unanimously approved.

On a 20-13 vote, Portland was chosen over St. Thomas as the venue for the Sixth J.F.F. Congress on the second Sunday of September 1975.

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