Work of cricket IMC completed, says Clive Lloyd

– body to be disbanded after passage of Cricket Administration Bill

By Rajiv Bisnauth

Chairman of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) for cricket, Clive Lloyd revealed on Tuesday that the work of the IMC has been completed.
Lloyd told Guyana Times International Sport, that once the Cricket Administration Bill 2012 is passed into law, fresh elections will be held and the IMC will be disbanded, reiterating the position of Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall.
“More or less the IMC has completed its work what we were supposed to do; we had to produce a constitution and a cricket development plan and we have done so. We are now awaiting the end result from the government-appointed Select Committee, when that is finished it will be forwarded to the parliament and once it is passed as a law, we will have fresh elections where everybody should take part and the IMC will go its way,” Lloyd said.
The Guyana Cricket Administration Bill of 2012 seeks to establish the Guyana, Demerara, Berbice and Essequibo Cricket Boards as corporate bodies. It also seeks to replace the existing GCB constitution with a new constitution – the Constitution of the Guyana Cricket Board – as the government moves to bring the GCB in line with cricket boards of sister Caricom countries.
Should that bill be passed in parliament, last Sunday’s GCB elections will be deemed null and void.
The IMC was established in December 2012 after a ruling by the Honorable Chief Justice Ian Chang on August 22, 2011, as part of his findings from a longstanding impasse between factions of the then Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).
In Chang’s ruling it was noted, “It is a matter of common knowledge that there exists a ministry responsible for sport in general. This indicates that the state has assumed responsibility for the welfare, promotion and proper administration of sports in Guyana and that, since in the present state of affairs, while a legislative structure for the administration of cricket is desirable, there may be the immediate need for the Minister responsible for sports to impose his executive will in the national interest until such time as parliament can provide a more permanent welfare structure.”
That injunction was filed by Angela Haniff, in her capacity as secretary of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), against the previous executive of the GCB. In the injunction, she claimed that the executives were elected unconstitutionally.
The Annual General Meeting and elections were held on July 10, 2011 and were attended by nine members of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) and only a few representatives of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB). However, only one member of the BCB voted.