JOSEPH DIBBS, president of the Jamaica Table Tennis Association (JTTA), has been banned from playing for one year and his presidency will be reviewed at a special meeting later this month.
Justin Allen, general secretary of the JTTA, told The Gleaner that the association's disciplinary committee, headed by Ken McLaughlin, recommended that Dibbs be banned for one year and the management council, also headed by Dibbs, sanctioned it.
But Dibbs was not in the island during the time of the meeting and vice presidents Collette Palmer and Michael Morris headed the council for the hearing.
"The disciplinary committee recommended that all the rating points he (Dibbs) got from the national championships be deleted and he be banned for a year from local and international tournaments," said Allen.
According to Allen, Dibbs has seven days to appeal the ban and, as to his presidency, a special general meeting will be called to decide his future.
Dibbs became embroiled in a dispute with a parent on the opening day of the National Championship at the UTech auditorium on September 9, where he was alleged to have struck a 10-year-old table tennis player with a ball after he wandered into the playing area.
Dibbs was asked to apologise by the child's mother, but refused, and was barred from taking further part in the tournament. He returned the following day to disrupt the tournament by having the nets removed from the playing tables.
Dibbs, who became president two months ago, eventually finished second, losing the final to Christopher Marsh.
