The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket

Ramnarine to weigh legal options

Mon, Oct 17, '16

 

Trinidad & Tobago

DINANATH Ramnarine and his team are considering legal action in an effort to change the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) constitution, as they prepare to challenge the Azim Bassarath-led administration at the TTCB elections on Saturday.

It will be difficult to make changes to the constitutiuon with the elections just days away, but Ramnarine and his team are hoping they can make constitutional changes if voted into power on Saturday. Ramnarine is vying to become president of the TTCB and prevent Bassarath from being elected for a third consecutive term. Yesterday at a symposium called “Democracy, Transparency and Good Governance __ For the Love of the Game” at the Chaguanas Borough Corporation, Ramnarine stated there are many options they can take to bring about changes in the constitution. Ramnarine stated, “we have been having private meetings with the key stakeholders and I think this the last phase of the meetings in terms of listening to what the key stakeholders have to say and how we should go forward. There are many options available to us (to change the constitution), one of them would be to go to the Annual General Meeting and continue to appeal to people.” He added, “the other option we are considering is whether in fact we look at the legal route and that’s obviously something that we are considering, again these are some of the things that we are discussing with the key stakeholders.” Attorney-at-law Christophe Brathwaithe said this country should follow other countries in developing a code of good governance.