Orin Davidson

Clive Lloyd’s latest rejected bid to head the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is the latest example of the perverse state of its governance which is seemingly damaged beyond repair.

This time it wasn’t an embarrassment perpetuated by the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), rather one the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) brought directly upon itself.

The year was 1984, the ground –  Albion Sports Complex and the Guyana opening batting pair ended up pulverizing the Leeward Islands bowling attack for a mammoth 202-run first innings partnership.

It was a surprising result, albeit a pleasant onset for the Golden Jaguars last Friday night at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico.

Disgraceful is putting it mildly,  rather the circumstances surrounding Guyana’s shock withdrawal   from the West  Indies T20 Championship is an abominable dereliction of national duty.

In the wake of the Golden Jaguars’  success story  this year,  the country’s football problems  continue  to morph with every passing day, and United States-based administrator  Garth Nelson, feels  it’s time to take the bull by the horns  to curb a likely crisis.

As the Guyanese football fraternity continues to toast the historic success of the national football team the Golden Jaguars which has advanced to the next round of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers two significant factors standout in the wake of the team’s ousting of Trinidad and Tobago from the World Cup qualifying series.

New York-based Golden Jaguars Kevin Beaton and Devon Millington will have a chance to showcase their skills at a higher level for the Caribbean All Stars against top United States Soccer

Vivian Harris has experienced every dip and climb in  the roller-coaster life of pugilists  in the world of professional boxing.

Guyanese will be entertained by Chris Gayle this weekend in the inaugural Hits and Jams Twenty20 competition at the National Stadium.

The Guyanese footballers currently campaigning in the United States are making the best of their opportunities so far.

All the grime and filth simmering below  has now burst through to the surface as  the shambolic handling of Regional cricket by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), has once again been exposed big time.

The games are over for West Indies cricket team at the World Cup and so too should be the ones the West Indies Cricket Board has been playing with respect to development of the regional team and the regional standard on the whole.

Some are forgotten, some have passed on and many are still active on the field of play  and as administrators.

The West Indies selectors made a bold move to draft in Devendra Bishoo.

A great amount of energy is being expended by the warring factions of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) to secure electoral advantages in the run-up to its elections.

Lennox Cush found himself wedged between a rock and a hard place prior to the Caribbean T20 cricket Championship last month.

FIFA’s motto reads: “For The Good Of The Game.” Yet if that requirement was a yardstick used by world governing  body to keep national associations in power, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) would’ve been ousted many times over.

The Golden Jaguars were not destructive these last few weeks. Rather, they limped along, undernourished while successfully completing the first two phases of its mission.

In the world of local theatre Mahadeo Shivraj is perhaps one of the least known of the outstanding pool of local creative talent.