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Em­broiled in con­tro­ver­sy for most of her pres­i­den­cy with play­ers, mem­bers of her ex­ec­u­tive, and leagues, for­mer na­tion­al play­er Sher­ry-Ann Black­burn was de­feat­ed by Deb­bie-Ann Fran­cois 22-13 for the pres­i­den­cy of the Net­ball Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing the elec­tion of of­fi­cers at the An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) on Sat­ur­day.

On the eve of the AGM, Black­burn found her­self on the re­ceiv­ing end of crit­i­cism when she changed the AGM from be­ing an in-per­son meet­ing card­ed for the Mal­oney In­door Sports Com­plex to an on­line for­mat with less than 24 hours be­fore the meet­ing was called and with­out the ap­proval of the gen­er­al coun­cil.

Her de­ci­sion was met with dis­ap­proval from var­i­ous net­ball stake­hold­ers who spoke on the con­di­tion of anonymi­ty to Guardian Me­dia Sports on Fri­day, claim­ing that it was un­eth­i­cal to change the meet­ing to an on­line one at short no­tice. “You are sup­posed to in­form peo­ple way in ad­vance. Be­cause peo­ple need to set them­selves up. I get prob­lems on my phone and with Zoom and oth­er vir­tu­al plat­forms. You don’t know if I have a lap­top at home. You can­not put on a meet­ing of this mag­ni­tude.”