FOLLOWING a meeting of the membership of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) last Friday, it was decided on that its Annual General Meeting (AGM) will now be held on April 30 at the GNIC Sports Club on Woolford Avenue. 

According to a release from the DCB, the meeting was keeping in accordance with the Guyana Cricket Administration Act (Act No. 14 of 2014) (GCAA), and saw attendance from a majority of their constituent members.
Major General (Retired) Norman McLean was unanimously appointed to chair the meeting where the members discussed a wide range of matters affecting the conduct, the playing and the administration of cricket in Demerara and there was the general feeling that a resolution of the crisis in Demerara cricket would essentially pave the way towards legality, order and good governance at all levels including the West Indies Cricket Board.
“With the successful passage of the GCAA, the delegates were optimistic that at long last, proper and lawful elections of the DCB could now be held and would include the Upper Demerara Cricket Association (UDCA)” the DCB said in the release.
The DCB said that at Friday’s meeting, several other issues were discussed, including the injunction preventing all those who were purporting to be executive members of the DCB, their servants and or agents, from performing the functions and duty as officers of the DCB (Raj Singh, Anand Sanasie et al).
Also discussed was the selection of teams from Georgetown and East Coast by persons unknown, the exclusion of Upper Demerara Cricket Association (Linden, etc) from Demerara cricket and the denial of any funding, including for cricket development, to the Georgetown Cricket Association, the East Coast Cricket Board and the Upper Demerara Cricket Association.
The DCB further shed some concerns over the donation of cricket gear received from the WICB to only selective clubs and bypassing the Area Boards/Associations, “the plethora of court actions against the legitimate stakeholders of Demerara cricket by the purported executives of the Guyana Cricket Board, and alarmingly, it is this identical group that has been usurping the functions of the executives of the Demerara Cricket Board”.
In the release issued, the DCB said that “Mr Raj Singh holds shares as president of the DCB in a privately registered company, DEB Essentials Inc. (renamed Cricket Guyana Inc.), when in fact he was never elected president of the DCB and received no such permission from the membership”
“The complicity of the WICB in supporting the illegality in Guyana cricket in order to secure votes and generally the indifference of the WICB to all of the well-publicised critical problems affecting cricket in Guyana, including illegal elections and financial misappropriation, the phantom group running off competitions in Demerara deliberately excluding the Upper Demerara Cricket Association,” the DCB also listed as concerns.