Chairman of the Interim Management Committee on cricket Clive Lloyd yesterday told Stabroek Sport that elections to name a new executive to manage the business of the Guyana Cricket Board could be held very shortly.
In an exclusive interview with Stabroek Sport at yesterday’s launching of the East Coast Cricket Board Academy Lloyd said that he was working on having a final meeting with committee members to finalize the constitution.
According to the former West Indies Captain, copies of the constitution were sent all associations for recommendation and approval.
“Not a lot of them came back with too many things, so it could be said that it is a very sound constitution and one that could stand us in good stead for years to come,” Lloyd said.
The IMC Chairman said that once the new constitution is finalized at the upcoming meeting the next step would be to hold elections.
Questioned on the expiration of the IMC, Lloyd said that the life of the committee has been extended until its work is completed.
“The work of the committee is not yet finished; the main thing is to get elections. Once the board is installed then we exit,” he said.
Lloyd was last December appointed Chairman of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) originally for a period of six months in keeping with a ruling made by the Honourable Chief Justice Ian Chang when he suggested that there might be need for the Minister responsible fro Sport Dr Frank Anthony …”to impose his executive will in the national interest until such time as Parliament can provide a more permanent welfare structure.”
Chang’s ruling came following an unsuccessful court action by Angela Haniff which sought to challenge the legality of the GCB’s election of office bearers at which meeting Ramsey Ali was elected president.
Lloyd also took the opportunity to voice his disappointment at the selection and departure of several teams to compete in tournaments run by the West Indies Cricket Board.
“Well, the President (Donald Ramotar) had made a suggestion that the board (GCB) should have somebody here that we could work through them and they turned that down. But now they are working through somebody here, we don’t know yet,” he said.
Lloyd said that instead of the IMC selecting the team, a parallel body was selecting its players to form the various teams to compete in the regional tournaments. That, he said, will change once the new board has been installed after elections.
Lloyd added that the WICB would be the competent body to say who are the persons locally granting approval for the teams selected to compete in the regional tournaments.
“We might have an idea, but we can’t say at the moment who they are dealing with, which I think is not good at all. It should have been done in a much better manner,” he opined.
The last team selected and approved by this “phantom group” was the female national cricket team currently competing in the women’s regional tournament in Jamaica.
