Cricket IMC to hold series of public meetings starting tomorrow

Feb 11, 2012 Sports

The Interim Management Committee appointed by the Ministry of Sports to oversee Guyana’s cricket, has programmed a series of meetings with the officers and members, affiliated groups, stakeholders and the general public to discuss the Constitution Reform of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and long and short term plans for cricket development.
The consultations on Cricket are fixed as follows:-
West Demerara – Sunday, February12, 2012, at 10:00hrs at the Uitvlugt Community Centre
East Bank Demerara – Sunday, February12, 2012, at 15:00hrs at the Providence Community Centre
Essequibo Coast – Wednesday, February 15, 2012, at 13:00hrs at the Anna Regina Regional Office
East Coast Demerara – Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 16:00hrs at the Lusignan Community Centre
East Bank Essequibo – Parika – Friday, February 17, 2012, at 11:00hrs – Venue to be named
Linden & Upper Demerara – Saturday, February 18, 2012, at 12:00hrs – Venue to be named
Berbice – Sunday, February 19, 2012, at 12:00hrs at the Berbice High School
Former West Indies Captain, Clive Lloyd, is the Chairman of the IMC and is expected to lead the discussions. Government formed the IMC after many problems arose in local cricket. These saw several factions jockeying for control of the entity.
Ramsey Ali was elected as the Guyana Cricket Board president, but met opposition from several rival quarters and faced a number of court actions filed. The election process was also questioned.
One court action resulted in Chief Justice Ian Chang issuing a ruling in which he recommended that government oversee and sort out the problems. The result was that Government set up the IMC.
This move has been met with stiff opposition from the WICB and condemnation from the ICC, the sports’ governing body. The WICB has removed several international matches from Guyana as a result of the impasse, enforcing its recognition of the GCB as the sole body administering cricket here and stated that the government IMC must be an advisory body.
This has been rejected by government.
Government has expressed determination to fix the problems affecting the sport. It says that it is not taking control of the local cricket administration. The GCB, the WICB and the ICC say that it has. Given the opposition from the regional body and the ICC, Guyana risks being banned from the sport if it insists on the IMC being the cricket administrator.
In the absence of a concrete sports policy ratified by the Parliament, which would have ruled on a course of action in the case of these kinds of disputes by law, the government will now take its case to the general public, who have given mixed reaction to the issue so far.

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