JAMAICA'S highest rated referee and one of the region's best, Peter Prendergast has stepped down from his post of vice-president of the Jamaica Football Referees Association (JFRA) citing personal reasons.
Prendergast handed in his resignation at a general monthly meeting on Tuesday night. "It was a personal decision. I did not want to be a part of what was going on so I decided to step aside.
"Things have been very up and down in recent times and there was a member in the meeting who expressed her dissatisfaction with the functions of the executive over the last nine months.
"I, being a part of the executive and agreeing that it has not performed the way it ought to, for whatever the reasons, thought that the honourable thing to do was to resign," Prendergast told The Gleaner yesterday.
Clayton Solomon, president of the JFRA said he was surprised by Prendergast's action.
"I had taken a decision that December of last year I was going to call it a day. But Mr Prendergast and Stephen Bell and other senior members asked me to remain until June so that we could have a smooth transition.
This resignation has surprised me considering the fact that it was he who asked me to prolong," Solomon said. "It was based on their insistence in lengthy meetings that I acceded the request."
Solomon said that he did not try to persuade Prendergast to stay on as he had opted to resign last February. "This is not the first. He decided to do so in February ...in one breath you are telling me to stay and in another you are resigning. It looks a way. It looks as if he is firsting me."
