Letter to the Sports Editor...Sharma Solomon must support the genuine cricket officials in Upper Demerara

Letter to the Sports Editor…Sharma Solomon must support the genuine cricket officials in Upper Demerara

Sep 24, 2014 Sports

Dear Sports Editor,
The recent sham presentation by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to Bayrock Cricket Club highlights their desperation to create even further confusion in Demerara cricket towards maintaining their control of both the Demerara Cricket Board and the GCB.
Cricket in Upper Demerara is administered by the duly constituted Upper Demerara Cricket Association (UDCA) which was founded in 2000 and which remains the sole legitimate authority for cricket in Upper Demerara.
It seems therefore that mischief is afoot when certain officials can turn up in Linden to make a presentation of cash and cricket bats to Bayrock without acknowledging the UDCA as the parent body in that region.
For years rigorous opposition was made to the UDCA’s claim for membership of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) and even refused recognition of the existence of the UDCA. In a move that could only be described as callous, in submission made to Parliament a voluminous document deliberately crafted to block the inclusion of Linden in Demerara cricket through the Guyana Cricket Administration Bill (GCAB).
As a staunch Lindener and a long-standing cricket fan, I am particularly disturbed that Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon and the President of the Bayrock Cricket Club, Lancelot Easton, accepted the cheque and bats on behalf of a previously unheard of Upper Demerara Cricket Committee.
I believe that both Sharma Solomon and Lancelot Easton are allowing themselves to be used by persons who seem bent on winning favours in Linden now that the Cricket Bill has passed and been signed off by President Donald Ramotar paving the way for UDCA to officially become the fifth constituent member of the DCB.
Easton’s position is perplexing especially as he is a past president of the UDCA and his club, Bayrock, was a founding member of the UDCA in 2000. In a remarkable turn-about, for reasons best known to him, Easton has supported the perspective that the entire Upper Demerara Region 10 of 45,000 persons must fall under the direct control of the East Bank Demerara Cricket Association.
Sharma Solomon stance in dealing with and supporting those who made the presentation, is therefore alarming having regard to the fact that Solomon’s party, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) supported and voted in favour of the Cricket Administration Bill and, by extension, the inclusion of Upper Demerara as a legal and constituent member of the DCB.
And, ipso facto, the UDCA for the first time ever will belong to the structure of Guyana Cricket thereby eventually righting a long-imposed injustice to the Region. The good people of Linden may want to question why their Chairman, Sharma Solomon, would want to support in any way a person who campaigned unrelentingly for the exclusion of Region 10 from Guyana Cricket.
Any funds or cricket equipment allocated for cricket in Upper Demerara must be channeled through the legitimate body, the UDCA. It is disappointingly evident that Sharma Solomon and the good office he represents have been unwittingly used to further Sanasie’s self-serving agenda.
It is important to note that, the Berbice Cricket Board, the East Coast Cricket Board and the Georgetown Cricket Association have, for over four years, not received any monies or one cricket bat from the GCB, while players from these areas consistently make up the national teams at all levels. The Berbice Cricket Board is justifiably referred to as the best-run and most productive Cricket Board in Guyana and the Georgetown Cricket Association as the best-run Association.
Mr. Sharma Solomon, as an APNU member and the Chairman of Region 10, may want to re-examine his involvement in that presentation charade and to clear his name as I hold the view that he was deliberately misled on the cricket issues as they relate to Upper Demerara. Failing which, he may be accused of acting against the best interests of the good people of Upper Demerara who have fought to end the isolation of Linden and Upper Demerara cricket.
What is so very wrong with our cricket over the past four years is the poor crop of administrators who continue to use every conceivable trick and sham to stay in control of Guyana cricket.
Sharma Solomon and Lancelot Easton must set the example to ensure that the people of Upper Demerara, including and especially the cricket officials, must be mindful that they do not fall prey to the wiles and mastery of the art of divide and rule.
Henry Farnum
Cricket Umpire

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