Dear Colleagues: I am responding to posts from Carlos Vera and Jose Ovidio. My apologies if my translation is inadequate but here again, evidence of my concerns previously stated. In Carlos Vera's response to me, he misspoke on the duration of the preference poll. He claims it was open for 3 days. Wrong. Fact: The preference poll was open for forty (40) hours. In my part of the word, a day remains 24 hours. If you do the math you will notice this made the duration 8 hours shy of two (2) days. Secondly, my friend Jose Ovidio questioned my standing to raise a point of order on this list. This is truly unfortunate because without meaning to, confirmed he too is challenged by a lack of understanding of basic LACRALO RoP. Fact: Any member in good standing can raise a point of order in a LACRALO General Assembly. I'm sure he did not mean to say The University of the West Indies and it declared representative is without standing. Secondly, he should know that this voting activity is by definition and process, a virtual LACRALO general assembly. Thirdly, the presiding officer - this time the Secretariat - is duty bound to take my point of order. His ruling can be challenged. And any member retains the right to challenge his decision by resolution and call for a vote to ratify. Finally, a comparison of the state of LACRALO. Only a couple days ago, Our ALAC representatives requested the sense of the membership on a policy matter before ALAC for which they would be required to vote. I defy anyone to give me a count of the number of responses to that request: 1. Within 12 hours 2. Within 24 hours 3. Within 36 hours 4. Within 48 hours. Kind regards, Carlton Samuels ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================