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Feb 06, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
We note a few members of the dysfunctional IMC making public pronouncements about the legality of the AGM of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) held on Sunday January 27, 2013, it was observed by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).
These continuous reckless and wild comments are being given undue widespread publicity, mostly in the state media, without any opportunity being afforded to the GCB to respond. These gentlemen along with a few Ministers of the Government continue to make irresponsible and misleading statements to members of the public.
I call on these persons to desist from creating confusion and work together with the GCB to bring some order to the cricketing fraternity. These guys are abusing their power over some sections of the media to promote their agenda.
I trust that this letter would be given similar and equal prominence and would refrain from sending it to the Guyana Chronicle and the Times since it would not be published
Mr.Claude Raphael has been the Chairman of the national selectors and a WICB Director for a long period. His tenure as selector coincided with the decline in the fortunes of the Guyana cricket team. Ever since his departure from this selectoral position in 2011, amazingly, there has been a notable improvement in the performance and results of all of the Guyana teams that represented us at the WICB Regional tournaments.
The readers can draw their own conclusions from this established fact. Mr. Raphael sat on the GCB for over a decade and lost his WICB directorship in 2009 through a democratic process but has been extremely peeved ever since that inglorious exit from the WICB and has joined forces with some other disgruntled former GCB Executives to wage war against the GCB with some manufactured allegations.
His fellow IMC members are yet to respond to their questionable activities within the Demerara Cricket Board when almost $800,000 , (75% of the total funds of the DCB) was withdrawn from the Board’s accounts warranting the Auditor, another IMC member, to issue a qualifying management letter against that year’s accounts. Mr. Raphael has never uttered a word against his colleague about this blatant financial irregularity.
. This disgruntled group was the first set of persons that alleged financial impropriety within the GCB which was then adopted by the Government. Resulting from these allegations, Minister Nadir had ordered the Friendly Societies Registrar to investigate the GCB. This investigation was duly conducted in the first quarter of 2011 by an independent investigator, Mr. Rupert Foster.
This Rupert Foster report has never been released by the Government since it did not support the reckless allegations that were being made against the Officers of the GCB. This report has been circulated by the GCB to the WICB and further afield. SO much for the financial irregularities!!
It seems to have escaped Mr. Raphael’s memory that the WICB again journeyed to Guyana in 2012 and engaged the Government in the presence of CARICOM and a solution was brokered with all the parties.
The WICB and CARICOM were willing to sign off on this brokered solution but the Government represented by its Ministers’ Anthony & Nandlall asked for time to consult with its superiors. This consultation has not yet been completed after the expiration of several months.
Johnny Azeez

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