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Letter to the sports Editor The Cricket charade continues unabated; parliament must intervene

Jan 26, 2014 Sports

Dear Sports Editor,
The 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) is fixed for (today) Sunday 26 January, 2014. Yet again a new constitution will be foisted on Guyana’s Cricket, compliments of the embattled Secretary of the GCB, Anand Sanasie.
This time around, the constitution contains a clause for the GCB to set up a Commercial Arm (CA) which in effect means that all financial, commercial and marketing issues relating to Guyana’s cricket will be conducted and controlled by only a few specially-selected persons and not the statutory Marketing Committee or the Finance Committee of the GCB.
The CA will be appointed by the Executive Committee and not the constituent Members of the GCB. The CA will also decide on the remuneration of the players, including prize monies. Already, some of the encamped national cricketers have complained that they were forced to sign a document that a part of their collective earnings from the Super 50 Tournament have to be paid over to the GCB.
With all the chaos and confusion and charges of fraudulent elections of the GCB, it is simply appalling that for the fourth time in as many years, yet another constitution is being produced and certain persons at this AGM will vote unanimously in favour of it, very likely without any discussions. As there is no Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) and as the Berbice Cricket Board will not be in attendance, there will be no quorum at this AGM but Anand Sanasie will not be deterred and his constitution will be passed.
What is important for the public and the Parliamentarians to note is that the powerful and productive sectors of Guyana’s Cricket, namely the Georgetown Cricket Association, the Berbice Cricket Board and the East Coast Cricket Board, will not be represented at the AGM yet, with the exception of Ronsford Beaton (Essequibo), all the members of the Guyana National Senior Team are from these very three areas.
This is the real tragedy of Guyana’s Cricket. The West Demerara Cricket Association and the East Bank Demerara Cricket Association have not produced one single cricketer for the Guyana Senior Team for over fifteen (15) years and together with the Essequibo Cricket Board have held illegal elections and hijacked Guyana’s Cricket.
Anand Sanasie in his letter to Kaieteur News of January 24, 2014 has misrepresented the facts when he stated that the WICB President and CEO visited Guyana twice to mediate in the dispute here. The truth is that for persons who are mediating in the disputes, they never sought to have any form of discussions with the relevant stakeholders of Guyana’s Cricket yet sent “observers” to the charade that passed as GCB elections in January 2013 and very willingly accepted the results without even a cursory check on the charge that there was no quorum at the AGM and as such the elections were illegal. The cricket charade continues unabated.
Alarmingly, Sanasie and Raj Singh have not disclosed who are the persons representing the Demerara Cricket Board, quite an extraordinary position in the annals of sport anywhere.
Sanasie’s controversial involvement in Guyana’s Cricket and the many court disputes in which he is involved should have made him ineligible to sit on the Committee to resolve the affairs of the Leeward Island Cricket Association. But here again the WICB should be asked for a proper and objective explanation.
In the final analysis, the sordid issues affecting cricket have to be resolved by Guyanese and the ongoing Parliamentary process presents the best suited solution.
As a matter of Law, transparency, democracy, and decency, Parliament must intervene urgently to resolve what can only be described as lawlessness and chaos.
Yours faithfully,
Parasnauth Seeram LLM Hons, London.

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