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The International Olympic Organization (IOC) says it considering sending a representative to Dominica to review a dispute between the Dominica Olympic Committee (DOC) and several of its affiliate members, Dominica News Online has been reliably informed.<\/p>\n
Sources close to the matter told DNO that an IOC representative is expected on the island in July, although no specific date has been set.<\/p>\n
The source noted that the IOC has requested that no actions be taken by either side in the dispute until its representative visits Dominica.<\/p>\n
The IOC is hoping that the matter is “resolved peacefully and amicably in the interest of the Olympic movement in Dominica,” according to the source.<\/p>\n
The DOC and some of its affiliate members have been at loggerheads since January 24, 2013 when a meeting was held to elect officers to the DOC executive.<\/p>\n
The members complained there were irregularities during the elections.<\/p>\n
They subsequently wrote to the DOC general secretary instructing that a special meeting be convened \u201cunder the powers of Article 18.1 of the Bye-Laws of the Dominica Olympic Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n
The members say they were concerned about ‘many issues’ which they said must be addressed when the meeting was held.<\/p>\n
The special meeting was held at the Fort Young Hotel on May 16 but, after, according to member organizations, it was\u00a0 going \u201cnowhere,\u201d a resolution was passed giving the DOC executive 21 days to hold an Annual General Meeting in order that fresh elections be held.<\/p>\n
However the DOC decided to refer the matter to the IOC \u201cas it is authorized by Virtue of the Olympic Charter.\u201d It also questioned whether elections were actually needed as demanded by the affiliate members.<\/p>\n
The matter took another turn when the affiliate members wrote to the IOC, asking for its intervention.<\/p>\n
In their lettter, they said they were “aggrieved” at the manner in which the DOC is being governed by its president, Felix Wilson and general secretary, Thomas B. Dorsette.<\/p>\n
The visit to Dominica by the IOC representative is in response to the letter from the affiliate members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Olympic Organization (IOC) says it considering sending a representative to Dominica to review a dispute between the Dominica Olympic Committee (DOC) and several of its affiliate members, Dominica News Online has been reliably informed. Sources close to the…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n