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(Letter to the Sports Editor)
THE Executive and Members of the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) wish to record our profound disgust at the continuing dishonesty of those few individuals pretending to be the executives of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB). ploy Their latest scheme was to place an article in the newspapers of July 21, 2013 inviting clubs of the ECCB to meet with them to discuss cricket and the Board’s competitions. The proposed meeting we consider to be a charade for the mystery group of the DCB to gain some form of acceptance and to deflect the real issue that they are an illegal Executive. On January 25, 2013, Madame Justice Diane Insanally granted an injunction preventing the following persons from holding elections of the DCB – Rajendra Singh, Lalta Digamber, Anand Sanasie, Alfred Mentore, Anand Kalladeen, Ravindranauth Persaud, Ronald Sarjoo, Nazimul Drepaul, Colin Europe, Ray Persaud, Krishnchand Mangal, Chetram Singh, Lionel Jaikaran, Ramsey Ali, Fizul Bacchus, Dru Bahadur, Troy Mendonca, Terrence Holder and Rayon Griffith.
The Competitions Committee of the ECCB turned up to find out who is the phantom group of the DCB but were met by only Anand Sanasie and Raj Singh, who could not explain the purpose of the proposed meeting or say who are the purported Executives Members of the DCB.
The secrecy surrounding this phantom group is intended to avoid charges of contempt resulting in imprisonment.
We view this latest reprehensible action by this illegal group as another feeble attempt to divide and cause confusion within a Board that has a legal and properly constituted Executive in place. That the meeting did not come off for lack of attendance is testimony to the respect that the clubs on the East Coast have for the rule of law and in particular for Madame Justice Insanally’s order.
For the records, the ECCB has held a number of competitions for 2013, some of which will resume after the rains and two new ones scheduled to be launched in addition to the Carib T20. Also, the Annual Cricket Academy will be held in August 2013.
There is no cricket at all being played in West Demerara or the East Bank and yet it is these two areas for which Anand Sanasie and Raj Singh have responsibility and have been abject failures.
This illegal DCB executive has selected teams for the ECCB and has blatantly discriminated against and marginalised talented young cricketers in pursuit of their own narrow agenda.
We therefore wish to let the public know that the ECCB will continue to play and develop cricket in our area and will collectively resist any attempt by Raj Singh and Anand Sanasie, their servants and/or agents from meddling in the affairs of the ECCB.
We look forward to an early conclusion of the Parliamentary process which is expected to bring order and decency to our national game and ensure that the lawlessness that has consumed our cricket is expunged once and for all
THE Executive and Members of the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) wish to record our profound disgust at the continuing dishonesty of those few individuals pretending to be the executives of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB). ploy Their latest scheme was to place an article in the newspapers of July 21, 2013 inviting clubs of the ECCB to meet with them to discuss cricket and the Board’s competitions. The proposed meeting we consider to be a charade for the mystery group of the DCB to gain some form of acceptance and to deflect the real issue that they are an illegal Executive. On January 25, 2013, Madame Justice Diane Insanally granted an injunction preventing the following persons from holding elections of the DCB – Rajendra Singh, Lalta Digamber, Anand Sanasie, Alfred Mentore, Anand Kalladeen, Ravindranauth Persaud, Ronald Sarjoo, Nazimul Drepaul, Colin Europe, Ray Persaud, Krishnchand Mangal, Chetram Singh, Lionel Jaikaran, Ramsey Ali, Fizul Bacchus, Dru Bahadur, Troy Mendonca, Terrence Holder and Rayon Griffith.
The Competitions Committee of the ECCB turned up to find out who is the phantom group of the DCB but were met by only Anand Sanasie and Raj Singh, who could not explain the purpose of the proposed meeting or say who are the purported Executives Members of the DCB.
The secrecy surrounding this phantom group is intended to avoid charges of contempt resulting in imprisonment.
We view this latest reprehensible action by this illegal group as another feeble attempt to divide and cause confusion within a Board that has a legal and properly constituted Executive in place. That the meeting did not come off for lack of attendance is testimony to the respect that the clubs on the East Coast have for the rule of law and in particular for Madame Justice Insanally’s order.
For the records, the ECCB has held a number of competitions for 2013, some of which will resume after the rains and two new ones scheduled to be launched in addition to the Carib T20. Also, the Annual Cricket Academy will be held in August 2013.
There is no cricket at all being played in West Demerara or the East Bank and yet it is these two areas for which Anand Sanasie and Raj Singh have responsibility and have been abject failures.
This illegal DCB executive has selected teams for the ECCB and has blatantly discriminated against and marginalised talented young cricketers in pursuit of their own narrow agenda.
We therefore wish to let the public know that the ECCB will continue to play and develop cricket in our area and will collectively resist any attempt by Raj Singh and Anand Sanasie, their servants and/or agents from meddling in the affairs of the ECCB.
We look forward to an early conclusion of the Parliamentary process which is expected to bring order and decency to our national game and ensure that the lawlessness that has consumed our cricket is expunged once and for all
