Dear Editor,
Please allow a response to your piece ‘New Guyana Cricket Board executive to be elected shortly’ (SN, August 15). First, though, I am wondering if there isn’t a misprint in the headline and it should be corrected to read “selected” in place of “elected”?
Since the appointment of the IMC last year several efforts from the Upper Corentyne Association to find out the mandate of the IMC and the plans in place to reform Guyana’s cricket came up blank. What has been particularly worrying is that despite the fact that all the administrative bodies in Guyana were declared “non-entities” by the court the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) continued to function as usual in the face of several public criticisms that all was not well. When the IMC visited Berbice last year the same BCB provided the invitation list for the meeting from which several of us were excluded. To silence and exclude the BCB took the extraordinary step to form another Upper Corentyne Cricket Association by visiting the Upper Corentyne Chamber and pleading for financial help and organizational support.
Finally, it is simply not true, as the Chairman claims, that “copies of the constitution were sent out to all associations.” The obvious reason that “Not a lot of them came back with too many things” is because it was put together by the same mutual admiration group that the Chairman was fond of consulting.
Yours faithfully,
Rishee Thakur
Upper Corentyne Association
