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Letter to the Sports Editor…Mr. Stephney, good governance and convenient governance are very different

Aug 23, 2013 Sports

 

Dear Editor,
Please allow me to join the exchanges regarding the Government of Guyana sponsored cricket bill. I read the letters from Mr. Elroy Stephney, Intikhab Sankar and Winston Boston. While Boston and Intikhab Sankar seemed to have read the bill; Mr. Sankar chose to address pertinent issues whilst Boston sought to glorify his mentor. Mr. Stephney seemed not to grasp the effect of the final version of the bill or rather chose to appear ignorant as he once served on the now infamous IMC.
This very Elroy Stephney served under the present cricket administrators as Manager of the National under-15 team but suddenly finds himself attacking them. In fact, Mr. Stephney ran for office and supported the losing Presidential Candidate in the recent Essequibo Cricket Board elections.  Many in this country’s cricket administration seem to only get upset when things are not going their way. Mr. Stephney should be concerned that he was involved in Essequibo cricket and was an appointed member to the government IMC when about 400,000 Dollars from the Essequibo coffers was spent to attend and cater for IMC Meetings at a time when money was not available to run their youth cricket and to support an IMC that achieved nothing.
Thanks to one good gentleman, whose dedication and willpower has ensured that Guyana still has a cricket board and the WICB continues to place International cricket in Guyana.  I was able to obtain a copy of the report prepared by Frank Anthony and presented to parliament on the final day of the last sitting. Mr. Stephney, I know you are not stupid or ignorant so please get a copy and read the bill before you answer the following questions.
1. Why the President of the GCB cannot be a Director of the WICB?
2. How can the select committee legislate constitutions for a sporting organization that answers to an international body and is a shareholder for a regional body?
3. Why the select committee wrote its own constitutions for the GCB and the DCB but allowed the present archaic constitution of the BCB to remain and even be placed in the bill?
4. How can the select committee decide that Linden will become a full, new member of the DCB with 7 votes but any new member, after the passage of the bill, can only have 3 votes? Is it true that this band aid political proposal was made by Minister Frank Anthony to get opposition members to agree to the bill? This proposal does not address the ills and woes that affect the Linden area and is mere political gimmickry.
5. Why the select committee chose to disband the GCB and transfer all of its assets to a new entity? Is this not nationalization without compensation? GCB has a commercial arm in the form of an incorporated entity into which all of its assets are vested; how can this select committee seek to legislate the transfer of these assets without the permission or agreement of the shareholders and membership?
6. Why does the GCB have to submit its accounts to the National Assembly when it does not receive any government funding? Will the new GCB be catered for in the national budget but receive no funding?
7. Why none of the recommendations from the WICB, GCB & DCB were given any consideration?
Mr. Stephney, I have many more questions on the bill but will address them to the appropriate authority. However, I simply ask that you read the bill and fully comprehend that it is a political solution that will create more chaos in the future. The cricket bill, in its present form, is unconstitutional and will only bring about more litigation.
Fizul Bacchus
President Essequibo Cricket Board

 

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