WICB agrees with GCB draft constitution submitted

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By Rajiv Bisnauth

Despite the West Indies Cricket Board’s reservations about the setting up of an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to manage cricket in Guyana, it was learnt that the regional governing body has accepted the IMC’s draft constitution for the dissolved Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

Clive Lloyd

This announcement was made at the 19th Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub- Committee on Cricket at the office of the Prime Minister in St. John’s, Antigua on September 7, according to head of the government-established IMC Clive Lloyd.
“What I was told is that the WICB is happy and has agreed with the draft constitution,” Lloyd was quoted as saying after his return from Sri Lanka.
With this purported new development, new elections can be held at the GCB and bring an end to the life of the IMC, which has been installed since December, 2011.
The government and the WICB were at loggerheads following the government’s decision to appoint an IMC to take over the running of the day-to-day affairs of the GCB. This had stemmed from a ruling by Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang after the legitimacy of the previous executive after the Annual General Meeting in July 2011.
The WICB had said that while it was prepared to accept the government’s IMC as an advisory body, it was not prepared to “recognize or approve any entity other than the GCB as the authorised governing body for cricket in Guyana.”
As the standoff escalated, Guyana suffered tremendously with a number of first-class, as well as the Australia/ West Indies Test match being pulled from the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

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