APNU Leader Norton exposes Guyana Global Super League’s Cricket Flaws

Jul 30, 2025 Sports

Kaieteur Sports – Minister of Sport Charles Ramson says APNU Presidential candidate Aubrey Norton is “narrow minded and anti-development”, for questioning the PPP created Global Super League. “Wow…typical narrow minded and anti-development from APNU”, said Ramson on his facebook page on Sunday.

“I will have to assess it (GSL) properly but on face value I wouldn’t”, said Norton when asked if he would keep the GSL, to journalist Rawle Toney on his #HearMeOut podcast on July 19. Ramson further claimed under the Kaieteur news facebook post, that the Guyana Government is not paying for the GSL and CPL finals.

However, the evidence around the Caribbean of how the CPL authorities seek government payments to host finals and teams, since its inception in 2013 makes Ramson’s claim spurious at best.

A March 30th, 2022 CPL release announcing Guyana as final hosts from 2022-2024, stated:

“The Government of Guyana in collaboration with the local private sector will also stage two weeks of events which will form a Cricket Carnival.” The now defunct Jamaica Tallawahs team who is owned by Guyanese Kris Persaud, was sold to Antigua as Antigua & Barbuda Falcons, due to lack of Jamaica government support in 2023.

Trinidad & Tobago under former Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley from 2018-2020 hosted the CPL finals on a similar three-year deal. In a March 21, 2021 Trinidad Newsday article, former T&T Sports Minister Shamfa Cudjoe said their government paid US$1 million for the tournament.

Also in 2015, Kamla Persaud-Bissesar in her first term as T&T prime minister paid US$3.5 million to host CPL finals. In 2021, St. Kitts & Nevis was reported to have paid between US$2-3 million to host CPL finals. Finally, in 2015 the previous Antigua Falcons CPL Team was sold to St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots partly due to lack of government support.

How is it possible that the GSL & CPL finals has no Guyana government funding and only private sector funds? Even if only private sector funds are involved as Ramson claims, why has the government encouraged Exxon Mobil in particular to invest in the GSL, instead of the Guyana Cricket Board and Cricket West Indies, for the benefit of Caribbean cricket development? Ramson failed to address Norton’s overall point on GSL’s benefits to West Indies cricket and why fixing the fundamentals needed to produce test match ready cricketers in the Caribbean, was more important than running a second T20 tournament in the region, next to the CPL T20.

In a July 9th, 2025 Newsroom video, President Ali claimed the GSL had “ruffled some feathers” in world cricket. Global cricket evidence doesn’t support this assertion. Currently the international cricket power structure is intending to form multinational club tournaments with no interest in partnering with Guyana. England Cricket CEO Richard Gould, told ESPNcricinfo on June 5th, 2025, ECB is exploring the viability of a revamped “World Club Championship” for T20 cricket.

Australia cricket world figures are also engaging with Saudi Arabia in their plans for a “Grand Slam Cricket” League. Sources told the Sydney Morning Herald in a March 15th, 2025 that Saudi Arabia would be the largest backer, with the kingdom prepared to inject $US500 million into the cricket start-up.

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