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Aug 21, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
With West Indies cricket facing perhaps its greatest crisis, the responsibility was given to Guyana’s President, Bharrat Jagdeo to resolve the issues and remove or narrow the gap between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players’ Association so that the region would again be properly represented at the international level.
Mr. Jagdeo was not selected because he was a Solomon. He was chosen because he had just assumed the Chairmanship of CARICOM, the Caribbean Community, a formal grouping of the territories of the English-speaking Caribbean, all of which, with the exception of Suriname, Belize and the Bahamas, consider cricket their national game.
President Jagdeo would have convened the meeting of the two warring factions, with the confidence of his colleague heads and with the hopes and best wishes of the region’s cricketing public.
Why did not Mr. Jagdeo demonstrate the power and the arrogance he usually displays in local situations? Surely, he could have sat Mr. Hunte and Mr. Ramnaraine down and asked them if they fully understood and appreciated the significance of their actions.
These were two men elected or selected on one hand by the representatives of territories and, on the other, by a small group of players concerned only 2 with their selfish interests. Jagdeo was representing the people of the region and the Diaspora.
He could have reminded the two that neither of them is bigger than West Indies cricket and that both of them have the obligation to restore things to normalcy.
With the authority reposed in him by the constituents of the 13 cricketing territories, he could have demanded that none of the two would leave the Presidential Secretariat until or unless they had agreed to a resumption of the normal state of play.
That is how others before him would have handled the situation. That is how power and authority are to be used.
There should have been no need for any mediation by Sir Shridath Ramphal (Sir Shridath’s skill and diplomatic experience must be reserved for the resolution of matters of much greater importance).
Weeks after that meeting in the President’s office, things remain the same. There was an opportunity to save West Indies cricket. It was an opportunity lost. President Jagdeo dropped the ball.
L. Shanks
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