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Date fixed for Demerara Cricket Board elections
A meeting of the membership of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) (as advertised
Some of the 17 delegates from the three area Associations; East Coast, Georgetown & Upper Demerara at the meeting. West Dem & East Bank did not attend.
in the Kaieteur News of Sunday 22 March 2015) was held at the GNIC Sports Club on Woolford Avenus, Non-Pariel Park, Georgetown on Friday.
In accordance with the Guyana Cricket Administration Act (Act No. 14 of 2014) (GCAA), the meeting was attended by the majority of the constituent members of the DCB.
Major General Ret’d Norman Mc Lean was unanimously appointed to chair the meeting.
The membership discussed a wide range of matters affecting the conduct, the playing and the administration of cricket in Demerara and there was the general feeling that a resolution of the crisis in Demerara cricket would essentially pave the way towards legality, order and good governance at all levels including the West Indies Cricket Board.
With the successful passage of the GCAA, the delegates were optimistic that at long last, proper and lawful elections of the DCB could now be held and would include the Upper Demerara Cricket Association (UDCA).
Officials at the head table during the meeting.
Other issues discussed:
1. The injunction preventing all those who were purporting to be executive members of the DCB, their servants and or agents from performing the functions and duty as officers of the DCB (Raj Singh, Anand Sanasie et al)
2. The selection of teams from Georgetown and East Coast by persons unknown
3. The exclusion of Upper Demerara Cricket Association (Linden etc) from Demerara cricket.
4. The denial of any funding, including for cricket development, to the Georgetown Cricket Association, the East Coast Cricket Board and the Upper Demerara Cricket Association.
5. The donation of cricket gear received from the WICB to only selective clubs and bypassing the Area Boards / Associations.
6. The plethora of court actions against the legitimate stakeholders of Demerara cricket by the purported executives of the Guyana Cricket Board and alarmingly it is this identical group that has been usurping the functions of the executives of the Demerara Cricket Board.
7. Mr. Raj Singh holding shares as President of the DCB in a privately registered company DEB essentials Inc. (renamed Cricket Guyana Inc.) when in fact he was never elected President of the DCB and received no such permission from the membership.
8. The complicity of the WICB in supporting the illegality in Guyana cricket in order to secure votes. And generally the indifference of the WICB to all of the well-publicized critical problemsaffecting cricket in Guyana including illegal elections and financial misappropriation.
9. The phantom group running off competitions in Demerara deliberately excluding the Upper Demerara Cricket Association.
In summing up the discussions, the membership resolved that the only way forward is to hold elections of the DCB in order to have a legal executive committee in place for the administration of cricket in Demerara.
In furtherance of that resolution and in accordance with the Cricket Administration Act and to prohibit the executive lawlessness at the Guyana Cricket Board and the Demerara Cricket Board levels, the membership fixed the Annual General Meeting of the DCB for Thursday 30 April 2015 at the GNIC Sports Club, Woolford Avenue, Non-Pariel Park, Georgetown. It is expected that out of this meeting will emerge a properly-constituted executive committee of the DCB that reflects the will of the membership.
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