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A Confidential Letter to Sir Clive Lloyd with an Urgent Request

Submitted by Errol Harry Dear Clive, Since you do not know me personally I do hope that my first-name familiarity is not considered an impertinence but I am sure that you appreciate that to all Guyanese at home or abroad you are still our very own Clive, our National hero … I also appreciate that…

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Submitted by Errol Harry
President Donald Ramotar(l) and former President Bharrat Jagdeo(r)
President Donald Ramotar(l) and former President Bharrat Jagdeo(r)

Dear Clive,

Since you do not know me personally I do hope that my first-name familiarity is not considered an impertinence but I am sure that you appreciate that to all Guyanese at home or abroad you are still our very own Clive, our National hero …

I also appreciate that in the perilous times in which our country finds itself it might be considered ill-advised even risky to accede to the request above : to lend your considerable popular appeal and celebrity status to the pro-democratic pro-decency and anti-racism, campaign for real change in our benighted country and for which Mr Crum-Ewing’s life was taken…

I believe it is high time UWI History Professor Hilary Beckles of your West Indian Cricket Board of Control starts challenging the effects of Columbus’s error which has led to an identity crisis in our team and through-out the English-speaking Caribbean.

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4 responses to “A Confidential Letter to Sir Clive Lloyd with an Urgent Request”

  1. A Confidential Letter to Sir Clive Lloyd with an Urgent Request

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  2. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/video_audio/856645.html

    Here we have Michael Holding making in-artful comments. Comments which are then presented as evidence that the WI should not be in the World Cup, automatically.

    It doesn’t matter to the Indian press which now controls cricket propaganda, or news if you will, that he is talking about ALL test teams. Indian media continues to be used as a weapon of war against WI cricket.

    And Holding, of all people, as a ‘talking head’ is walking into that milieu, willingly!

    At the deeper level, the managers of the Boards in the Caribbean and other regional elites have led us to this state of disrespect. Unfortunately, the Caribbean people are so supine we are to have no cultural response to this grave matter.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    The walk out if the tour and 42 million matter makes the WI a target for the BCCI and others.

  4. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    ”’THE WEST INDIES CRICKET BOARD (WICB) and its auditors appear to be batting on different pitches.

    For the second successive year, accounting firm KPMG (Antigua and Barbuda) has expressed doubts over the ability of the WICB to remain in business.
    WICB directors, however, believe the board will have adequate resources to continue into the foreseeable future as a result of improved international revenue-sharing arrangements.
    KPMG gave its assessment in its independent auditors’ report under the heading Emphasis Of Matter, telling WICB shareholders that a note in the financial statements indicated the “existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt about the board’s ability to continue as a going concern”. (HG)
    Please read the full story in today’s Sunday Sun, or in the eNATION edition”’.
    – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/65468/auditors-hit-wicb#sthash.k236UfWi.dpuf

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