(Letter to the Sports Editor)

PLEASE allow me the opportunity to express my whole hearted support for Mr. Hilbert Foster’s call for immediate Government intervention in the local cricket fiasco. Mr. Foster’s call is timely and extremely relevant to the future of our cricket which has been devastated by the incompetent group that has hijacked the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) since 2011.
Government’s intervention merely requires that the Attorney General and/or the Minister of Sport, who are the defendants in the frivolous challenge to the Cricket Administration Act 2014, initiate action to have the injunction to the Act dismissed. That challenge was instituted by Anand Sanasie et al. Then Chief Justice (Ag) Ian Chang issued an order that prevented any elections of the GCB and its membership until the substantive matter is heard, which in effect is indefinite.
The defendants role is to have the matter brought up for early hearing or alternatively have the injunction quashed thereby paving the way for free and fair elections of the GCB to be held for the first time since August, 2011 when the chaos began.
Since the Cricket Act is properly in place, it only requires enforcing the rules to introduce the principle of democracy back into our Cricket Administration. All factions will then be united under a legal framework and cricket will once again have legitimacy and accountability in our dear land of Guyana.
What is so wrong with that?
Claude Raphael.