RAJ SINGH CALLS OUT HILBERT FOSTER

Sep 21, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
I should firstly admit that Mr. (Hilbert) Foster did indeed make contact with my Guyana Office on Monday, supposedly after reading my letter regarding the path forward to resolve the crisis surrounding cricket in Guyana, but I was unavailable and for which I apologize.
One would have thought that Mr. Foster would have supported my call for a structured resolution to this impasse but instead he has chosen to publicly chastise my fleeting factual reference to his comments regarding the work of the infamous IMC since its formation almost a year ago.
He carefully sidestepped the larger substantive issue contained in my letter, which is that the works of the IMC was doomed to fail due to its illegality, non-recognition by the WICB and the misconstrued basis of its formation since only the GCB and its members are legally authorized to change its constitution and administrate the game of cricket in Guyana.
This letter is very revealing in that Mr. Foster chose therein only to protect his image as well as he should but could have weighed in on any of the other issues contained in my letter. I guess he agrees with everything else.
Mr. Foster’s outstanding prowess at public relations is not matched by his recordkeeping abilities or his memory capabilities. My informant was a letter penned by the said Mr. Foster in the SN dated August 9th 2012 very aptly headlined ‘OUTSTANDING GUYANESE WHO LOVE CRICKET SHOULD WORK TOGETHER TO FIND A SOLUTION TO THIS UNHOLY MESS’.
I am tempted to proffer an apology to Mr. Foster since he denied calling the IMC a failure (for which he is correct) but instead referred to it as a ‘great failure’. His response letter of September 19th seems more to be an apology to Mr. Lloyd since his last sentence in the quoted paragraph above can be clearly interpreted as a direct attack on all the members of the IMC which is headed by Mr. Lloyd.
For all intents and purposes, with the exception of Mr. Lloyd, the IMC is/was a collection of disgruntled and egotistical ex-GCB Executives who failed to gain power through democratic means and have since attempted to use their political influence to hijack the GCB.
This band of power hungry individuals has sought to destroy the game of cricket at every opportunity yet still Mr. Foster issued a call in his August 9 letter for these said individuals who presided over the destruction of cricket in Guyana to come together to find a solution.
Most of these individuals are the problem. He may have inadvertently omitted Mr. Clive Lloyd from that distinguished list as he does not consider Mr. Lloyd to be in the category of outstanding Guyanese. He may yet have to issue another apology to the IMC head.
Whilst we are at it, Mr. Foster should avoid issuing advice to anyone and should utilize his significant administrative ability to draft a decent constitution to replace the ‘2 page’ abomination that the BCB calls a constitution.
Raj Singh
President
Demerara Cricket Board

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