Dear Editor,
I applaud Minister Anthony’s move to address the problem of the two constitutions of the Guyana Cricket Board.
I also hope that if any new constitution emerges, it will move away from purely geographical organization, which has created the power-play infighting on the present board. As cricket analyst Gideon Haigh recently wrote, “all responsible bodies [should] appoint at least a sizable minority of competent non-executive directors, with specific areas of expertise: law, accounting, marketing, finance, broadcasting, sports medicine. Their explicit mandate should be to make decisions in the interests of the country as a whole, rather than any particular region.”
The elected members of the board should be responsible for hiring and firing these technical appointees, but should have no power to interfere in their function once they are appointed.
This structure would free cricket decisions to be made in the best interest of cricket and not because of who will vote for whom at election time.
Yours faithfully,
Imam Baksh
