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Demerara Cricket Board ready for tomorrow’s elections
DCB clears the air on GCA allegation of constitutional breach
By Sean Devers
Bissoon Singh
Vice-President of the Georgetown Cricket Association Alfred Mentore yesterday alleged that the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) had breached its constitution by not giving notice in a national newspaper of its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and elections at least one month prior to the elections, which is scheduled for Saturday from 15:00hrs at the Wales Community Centre.
Mentore, a former national youth batsman, also stated that the GCA still does not have a copy of the minutes of the AGM since the one that was sent to them by the DCB was subsequently re-claimed by the DCB.
However, DCB President Bissoon Singh told Kaieteur Sports last evening that notice of the AGM appeared in the December 23 issue of the Stabroek News, one day after it was sent to the area associations.
“We sent an official notice to the associations, including the GCA, on December 22 and then published it in the papers the next day. The constitution mandates that notice is published in at least one national Newspaper at least one month before the date of the elections and we did that,” Singh said.
Singh explained that a day after their last statutory meeting (held on the first Tuesday of this month) the minutes for the AGM was sent to the associations, but because a minor problem that had to be cleared up, we took it back. It was then again sent to the associations later the same day and I am very surprised to hear that the GCA did not get theirs. If this is indeed true then they could easily have called any executive of the DCB to find out about it and I really don’t see this as a big problem,” Singh explained.
Singh, also the East Coast Cricket Association President, said that the DCB has a copy of the minutes, agenda, financial and administrative reports from each delegate attending tomorrow’s election in West Bank Demerara.
Each area automatically gets seven delegates, while for each five clubs they get an additional vote. West Demerara and East Coast will each have 14 votes because they each have 32 clubs, while Georgetown has 10 votes because they have 14 clubs.
It is expected that Singh, a former GCC first division leg-spinner, who toured Suriname with a Demerara youth team in 1987, should be re-elected as president while West Demerara Cricket Association President Anand Sanasie will be seeking re-election as Vice-President.
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