…club president Alfred Mentore says disgruntled members trying to use another loophole to unseat him

A NUMBER of concerned members attached to the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) have petitioned the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA), requesting its immediate intervention, with regard to the state of affairs at the Queenstown-based club.The petition, which was sent to GCA president Roger Harper on January 17, 2017, and was made available to Chronicle Sport, indicated that the concerned members wish to bring to the attention of the GCA the deplorable state of affairs at the club.
The petition indicated that there has been neither Annual General Meeting nor Ordinary General Meeting at the Demerara Cricket Club since the very questionable elections process on April 24, 2014.
Therefore the term of that 2014 executive expired in 2015 which makes the executive body illegal.
Further, the concerned members said no motion was passed to extend the serving period for that executive body, while there is no visible executive committee running the affairs of the club, and no executive meetings have been held for in excess of a year.
Also in the absence of a functioning executive, the financial records and membership records have not been presented to the membership.
So we, the concerned members, are questioning the ongoing daily state of affairs being carried on by persons assuming to be in authority.
Additionally, the concerned members are petitioning for the holding of the Annual General Meeting as required by the club’s constitution, since, according to them, there is no Court order prohibiting the holding of the AGM and elections.
They noted that these issues must be addressed frontally and in an efficient manner so that the club can return to its structural order as guided by the constitution, be it meetings, sanction or any other means necessary.
However, in an invited comment yesterday, DCC president Alfred Mentore pointed out those disgruntled members are trying another loophole to unseat him, or cause him another discomfort.
“As a matter of fact some of those persons questioning the state of affairs at DCC are members who played for DCC, and who have actually played in the NBS final at GCC where the game ended in dispute … some of those same players in the petition were part of the team when they walked off the field and conceded the game. Subsequently some of them were banned by the GCA,” Mentore said.
When questioned the reasons for no AGM since 2014, Mentore pointed out that there was an injunction seeking to prevent his executive from functioning after the April 2014 AGM and Elections by some of the very members whose names are on the petition.
According to Mentore, the injunction was refused in August 2014 and the matter then took its normal course and was only determined in 2016.
Mentore has committed that the club will hold its AGM & Elections by the end of February 2017.