The two factions of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) once again clashed yesterday in deciding on the location for Saturday’s Annual General Meeting and over the allocated delegates for the member associations.
On the heels of Monday night’s DCB Special Executive Meeting where it was disclosed that the DCB’s AGM will be held either at the Georgetown Cricket Club pavilion or the Lusignan Community Centre, some executives of the DCB called a press conference yesterday stating that the AGM will be held at the Wales Community Centre, West Bank Demerara.
According to the DCB Public Relations Officer, Rovin Stanley, who chaired the media briefing, seven of the 13 executives endorsed a motion which paved the way for the meeting to be held on January 22 at the Wales Community Development Centre at 14:00 hrs.
Stanley added that another matter the resolution settled was the allocation of delegates to the four sub associations as: Georgetown (10), West Bank Demerara (14), East Coast Demerara (14) and East Bank Demerara (14).
However in an interview with Stabroek Sport last evening, DCB President, Bissoondyal Singh, refuted the disclosures made by Stanley and other members of the DCB executive present at yesterday’s press conference, which included DCB Vice President, Anand Sanasie, East Bank Demerara Cricket Association co-opted representative, Rohan Sarjoo and DCB Honorable Secretary Rajendra Singh.
Bissoondyal Singh said yesterday’s press conference was “unauthorized” and stated that he was totally unaware, until later yesterday, that some members of the DCB had called a press conference.
“They called the press conference to confuse people and to set the AGM at Wales so half of the people will go there and nobody knows and the whole meeting will break up.
“The meeting that closed last night [Monday night] said that the election will be held at Lusignan or GCC, depending on the availability,” said Bissoondyal Singh.
“It is now being held at Lusignan because GCC is unavailable. Lusignan on the 22th at 5pm,” he added.
Bissoonday Singh also said that the returning officer will be Charles Ramson Jr. and not K.A. Juman Yassin as indicated by Stanley at yesterday’s press conference.
“When I heard that the secretary called a meeting, an unauthorized meeting and we didn’t know, I went to the court. The Court granted an order stating that he cannot call any meeting without my permission, anytime he does so he will be in contempt of Court.
“I want everyone to go one place. I don’t want them to break up it… I want a proper elections, so whoever gets voted out, gets voted out. If I get voted out, then I get voted out too,” he added.
Explaining the allocation of delegates for the member associations, Bissoondyal Singh stated: “The delegates are selected based on the clubs that play cricket in the area and those clubs would’ve been registered with the Competitions Committee… there is a formula how you calculate to arrive at the amount of delegates,” he added.
He stated that based on the Competitions Committee report, the DCB arrived at the delegates for the four areas to vote.
According to Bissoondyal Singh, the delegates allocation for the four sub associations are as follows: Georgetown (10), West Bank Demerara (11), East Coast Demerara (16) and East Bank Demerara (10).
