It is Time to Fix Cricket in Guyana – Sports Director Jones
Plagued with litigation and injunctions from factions of the GCB and the GCB itself filing matters of its own has robbed the local board of due election that is free, fair, transparent and acceptable by all stakeholders.
At present the current executives serving at the GCB are construed to be illegal by some of the stakeholders who have refused to accept the current GCB executives. The PPP/C administration stepped in to bring order and an acceptable solution when they appointed Clive Lloyd to an interim management committee and dissolved the then GCB executives. Let’s be reminded of the following steps taken by the then Sports Minister Dr. Frank Anthony outlined through a missive of the Guyana Chronicle as follows:
Further, after following due process in the National Assembly, the Cricket Administration Bill was assented to on August 14, 2014 when the then Head of State, President Donald Ramotar affixed his signature to the document. That step made the Cricket Administration Bill an Act.
In keeping with the requirements of the ACT the Minister wrote Mr. Dave Cameron, president of the West Indies Cricket Board, on October 9, 2014. Enclosed in that correspondence was a copy of the Guyana Cricket Administration Act 2014. The Minister further pointed out Section 17 of the Act pertaining to the appointment of the Cricket Ombudsman.
The Minister had also requested the submission of five possible candidates to take up the post of Ombudsman. The WICB was given fourteen days to provide the names and contact information for those candidates. However, after time elapsed and no submissions were made, by the WICB, Minister Anthony proceeded to appoint Dr. Winston McGowan.
That appointment was officially announced on December 31, 2014 – almost three months after Minister Anthony had written to Mr. Cameron.
Plagued with litigation and injunctions from factions of the GCB and the GCB itself filing matters of its own has robbed the local board of due election that is free, fair, transparent and acceptable by all stakeholders.
At present the current executives serving at the GCB are construed to be illegal by some of the stakeholders who have refused to accept the current GCB executives. The PPP/C administration stepped in to bring order and an acceptable solution when they appointed Clive Lloyd to an interim management committee and dissolved the then GCB executives. Let’s be reminded of the following steps taken by the then Sports Minister Dr. Frank Anthony outlined through a missive of the Guyana Chronicle as follows:
Further, after following due process in the National Assembly, the Cricket Administration Bill was assented to on August 14, 2014 when the then Head of State, President Donald Ramotar affixed his signature to the document. That step made the Cricket Administration Bill an Act.
In keeping with the requirements of the ACT the Minister wrote Mr. Dave Cameron, president of the West Indies Cricket Board, on October 9, 2014. Enclosed in that correspondence was a copy of the Guyana Cricket Administration Act 2014. The Minister further pointed out Section 17 of the Act pertaining to the appointment of the Cricket Ombudsman.
The Minister had also requested the submission of five possible candidates to take up the post of Ombudsman. The WICB was given fourteen days to provide the names and contact information for those candidates. However, after time elapsed and no submissions were made, by the WICB, Minister Anthony proceeded to appoint Dr. Winston McGowan.
That appointment was officially announced on December 31, 2014 – almost three months after Minister Anthony had written to Mr. Cameron.
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