Gammon returns as IADP chairman

Attorney-at-Law Kent Gammon has returned as chairman of the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (IADP) for the next three years, along with nine other members named by Sport Minister Olivia Grange yesterday.

Gammon will be joined by attorneys-at-law Hugh Faulkner and Georgia Gibson-Henlin, who will serve as vice-chairpersons.

Medical practitioners Dr Donovan Calder, Dr Marjorie Vassell, and Dr Japheth Ford were also named to the panel, with former vice-president of the Jamaica Paraplegic Sports and Social Club Dean Martin, former Jamaica Football Federation president Heron Dale, and Former Jamaica Women’s Hockey Association president Denise Forrest.

Grange said the panel’s appointment is in keeping with the Anti-Doping in Sport Act and the World Anti-Doping Code.

A team of three of these 10 persons will be assembled to preside over the anti-doping hearing between sprinter Briana Williams, who recently returned an adverse analytical finding, and the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission. However, a date and venue for this hearing have not yet been set.