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Apr 06, 2016 Sports
Dear Sports Editor,
The Stakeholders of Guyana Cricket take this opportunity to congratulate the West Indies Male and Female teams and the team officials on their famous victories in the 2016 T20 World Cup Tournaments. These cricketing ambassadors have brought great pride and joy to the region and have strengthened the bond and resolve of the peoples of the Caribbean as only cricket can.
The victories are also testimony to the determination of the players to rise above the shabby treatment meted out to them by their own West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). Clearly they played their hearts out for their Caribbean brothers and sisters and in so doing have inspired a whole generation of youngsters towards the achievement of success through a self-belief and an indefatigable spirit.
Captain Darren Sammy’s comments during the presentation ceremony highlights the abject failure of the WICB to provide vital support to the regional teams and also the never-ending rift between the players and the Board. The high-handed and manipulative manner by which WICB President Dave Cameron and his cohorts manage the affairs of our regional game has placed a patent wedge within the structure of WI cricket. The actions of Cameron and company suggest that they believe that West Indies cricket is their private property to do with it whatever pleases them or benefits them.
The Stakeholders of Guyana Cricket, who have been locked in a six-year campaign to re-establish good and accountable governance of our national game are particularly heartened at the intervention of Caricom Heads of Government to dissolve the pitiful WICB. It is time. Caricom is fully cognizant of what the WICB has thrown through the window that is that WI cricket unreservedly belongs to the people of the Caribbean. The WICB would have us believe that they are responsible for the victories of the regional teams. Nothing could be further from the truth as that Board is bereft of any cricket development plans. The Regional Cricket Academy has crashed and young talented players are left to fend for themselves.
We are in full support of the initiative taken by Caricom and look forward eagerly to the expected new dispensation in West Indies Cricket where the players and coaches would be treated with respect.
Congratulations to our victorious teams.
Malcolm Peters for
Stakeholders of Guyana Cricket
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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