Georgetown : The Alliance For Change (AFC) condemns in the strongest possible terms, the recent state- sponsored harassment of members of the Guyana Cricket Board. Whilst the AFC supports and demands full transparency and accountability in all area of operations, it feels that the recent searches and attendant trauma and anxiety were uncalled for.
The AFC repeats that there must be a new statutory regime which must be fast-tracked; and, under which new elections be held to regularise a situation deemed irregular by the obiter dicta of a senior judge. “ To forcibly impose an IMC, led by the renowned Clive Lloyd, will not solve the myriad problems. To make a legal entity out of a legal nonentity requires lawmakers not cricketers”, the party says.
It is rather ironic that this same legal nonentity which Clive Lloyd and his PPP sponsored IMC seeks to displace produced the best years of our cricket and yes, evens a Clive Lloyd!
The AFC says at the tripartite talks with President Donald Ramotar, there was a promise to move it forward by having the Attorney General cut and paste relevant legislation to suit the particular scenario, the AFC notice instead a diversion into terrorising GCB members into resignations through forced searches, of person and property, upon instructions of the learned Attorney General.
The party clears the air that the learned Attorney General who is leading this assault was until recently the lawyer for one of the warring factions in this matter. It would appear that the Attorney General is continuing to prosecute his client’s case, whereas as the Minister of Justice, he should be seen to be operating even-handedly.
The AFC calls on the Attorney General to immediately recuse himself from this matter, failing which the President should demand his resignation.
This cricketing debacle has already led to massive loss of revenues as a result of the Guyana leg of the Australia tour being called off. The hospitality industry has been delivered an uppercut, with a major contract for Pegasus Hotel being cancelled. Other hotels, restaurants, taxi services and hospitality services have been dented financially. The cricketing public has been crushed, too. It will not see live Test Cricket. And disastrously now, since the grant of an injunction, it means the Guyana team cannot participate further in this year’s Regional Tournament.
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