GFF Council

President Wayne Shawn Forde is a 45-year-old businessman who was born in the mining town of Bartica. He was raised by his loving grandmother and spent the formative years of his life like most Barticians, swimming extensively and playing on the beaches. He is the owner and managing director of Oasis Water and Prudential Industrial Technology. He is also a co-founder of MAKEYOURDEAL.COM, a rapidly growing international online home decor shopping site.

He is a maintenance engineer by profession with more than twenty-five years of national and international experience in the fields of power generation, heavy industrial mining, and paper recycling. Over the course of his professional career, he served in the capacity of maintenance technician, maintenance foreman, maintenance engineer, project manager, and operations manager.

His love for football began on the streets of Last Entrance, North Ruimveldt, Norton Street, Wortmanville, and later with the Santos Football Club for a brief period in the late eighties. In 2002 he began his relationship with Fruta Conquerors Football Club as a sponsor and one year later he became the first Vice President before becoming the President soon after. He went on to steer the club to its second K&S Championship in 2005. He later served as the first Vice President of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) before returning to serve as President of Fruta Conquerors Football Club. He considers the Fruta Conquerors Annual Summer Program as his greatest achievement in football to date. In 2004 he provided exclusive sponsorship under the OASIS WATER brand to launch this program with special emphasis on remedial math, reading and handwriting. The program’s first facilitator was Coach Sampson Gilbert. To date, scores of young boys and girls from the Tucville Community have benefited enormously from this program.

His other sporting passions, or as he would describe it, “obsessions,” are the board games Draughts and Chess. His favorite quote is, “It’s never too late to do what’s right.”

Brigadier General (Ret.) Jullian (Bruce) Lovell retired from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in May 2015 after a career spanning some 36-plus years of service to Guyana.

During his tenure, he held several appointments at the direct, organizational and strategic levels of the force, which allowed him to acquire skills and expertise in diverse areas such as strategic leadership, strategic planning, organizational development, operations management, and defence and public security policy making.

As the second-in-command of the GDF, he superintended the force’s operations and training; and one of his many tasks was policy making, development, and management for all sports in the force at the strategic level.

Brigadier Lovell is the holder of an MSc in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces of the National Defence University, USA; an MA in Human Resource Development from Webster University, USA; and a Bachelor’s degree in Public Communication from the University of Guyana.

Mr. Rawlston Adams holds a Diploma in Technology (Civil) from the University of Guyana and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Australian Institute of Business.

Mr. Adams was employed at the then Guyana Water Authority and SRKN’gineering Consultants (Guyana) before being employed at the Ministry of Public Works and Communications, Works Services Group (Guyana) as the Project Engineer/Sr. Project Engineer for 10 years. Among the key projects he contributed to are: the Bridges Rehabilitation Project, Mahaica-Rosignol Road Rehabilitation Project, Timheri Airport Runway Overlay and Lighting, New Amsterdam – Moleson Creek Road and construction of the Berbice River Bridge Project Steel Floating Bridge. Mr. Adams has been spearheading the management team of the Demerara Harbour Bridge from 2008 to the present as the general manager.

He is also a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Mr. Inniss has a long football background. He is a former captain and goalkeeper of the President’s College football team and was awarded the best goalkeeper at the inaugural Coca-Cola Inter-Secondary School Tournament. He was a member of the winning Inter-Guiana Games football team that defeated Suriname in Paramaribo at the resuscitated Games in 1993 for the first time at any level since 1976.

He also represented Thomas United at the First Division level and also served as its club secretary.

Inniss’ refereeing career commenced in 2000, officiating in all the major local tournaments. In 2004, he became a FIFA assistant referee until his retirement in December 2014.

He is a founding member of the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC) and has served the organization at various times as a committee member, secretary, vice president, and currently president.

“I was appointed as a member of the GFF Referees Committee in February 2015. I am a member of the Match Commissioner panel.”

Mr. Inniss is currently employed at Caribbean Airlines Ltd. in Georgetown as the Sales Executive for Guyana and Suriname.

Ms. Johnson who hails from the township of Bartica which is located on the left bank of the Essequibo River has a long football background for more than two (2) decades. She served as club secretary for Beacons FC and P.R.O for Bartica Football Association. She also coached at the club level and the Junior Lady Jags.

Ms. Johnson was employed as the Assistant Competitions Coordinator at the Guyana Football Federation. She also served as Secretary of the Women’s Football Association.

Presently, Ms. Johnson is the President of the Women’s Football Association for the past six years and is the First Vice-President of the Berbice Football Association. She also manages the Senior Women’s National Team, “Lady Jags”.

Ms. Johnson now resides in Berbice and is married to retired FIFA Referee Mr. Sherwin Johnson and has one son. She is also very vibrant in church where she serves as the Sunday School Superintend at Victory Assembly of God Church.

Ms. Johnson is a trained Physical Education teacher who is attached to Fort Wellington Secondary School in Region No.5 and is currently the Head of Allied Arts Department.

Ms. Stewart resides in Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast and is currently employed at the Guyana Power & Light Inc. She has been with the company for the past thirty-two years in the capacity of supervisor at the Anna Regina Commercial Office in their Finance Department. Ms. Stewart is also a committee member on the Social Activities Committee of the Guyana Power & Light Inc.

Ms. Stewart’s history in football details her serving in the capacity of President of the Henrietta Football Club for over seven years.

Presently, Ms. Stewart is the Vice President of the Essequibo Coast/Pomeroon Football Association.

Ms. Stewart is a mother to two children and has been married for ten years. She plays a very active role within her religious community and also spends her time as a volunteer assisting the Regional Executive Officer.

Mr. Farias was born in the area of Central Rupununi, Lethem. He graduated from the St. Ignatius Secondary School in 1996 and thereafter from the Cyril Potter College of Education with a Trained Teacher’s Certificate in 2007. Mr. Farias then pursued his academic studies at the University of Guyana, graduating with an Associate’s Degree in Fine Arts in 2013.

Mr. Farias has been a coach for both the male and female senior football teams from Region 9 participating in national tournaments. He has participated in a number of FIFA-organized coaching sessions, such as the Female Coaching Course in 2009 and 2010 and the Elite Coaching Course in 2011.

Mr. Farias has served on the Council of the Guyana Football Federation since being elected in November 2014.

Ms. Lovell is the President of the Den Amstel Football Club and holds the distinction of being the club’s longest-serving member, having served under four presidents. She was first elected as club secretary in the early 1990s, then treasurer, before being elected President in December 2022. She also previously served as Treasurer of the West Demerara Football Association and is currently serving on the Women’s Football Association.

Her love for football has continued to grow over the years. Her son is currently a player on the Guyana Senior Men’s National Team. Her passion for the sport has earned her the nickname “football administrator” from the former President of the Women’s Association. In her community, she is affectionately known as “the football lady,” and villagers frequently approach her to ask about upcoming matches or who is playing on any given day.

Although she never played the game herself, football has been a lifelong passion. Growing up, her brothers played street football, and she recalls local tournaments, such as “inter block,” where villagers would come out in large numbers to support their teams.

Outside of football, she enjoys playing dominoes and has won numerous trophies, some of which she left at her workplace as keepsakes. She is a mother of two and has been married for thirty years.

She remains active in her community, offering volunteer services whenever possible and caring for elderly relatives, including a ninety-one-year-old aunt.