Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the North, South and South-West zones of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) are un­hap­py over the can­cel­la­tion of a spe­cial meet­ing which they re­quest­ed with the Board.

The meet­ing, aimed at mak­ing amend­ments to the con­sti­tu­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly the abil­i­ty of six ex­ec­u­tives and as many nom­i­nat­ed mem­bers the pow­er to vote, was sched­uled for yes­ter­day but the board's gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ar­joon Ram­lal, in a let­ter on Wednes­day, stat­ed it could not be held be­cause of a pur­port­ed breach of Ar­ti­cle 29 of the T&TCB's con­sti­tu­tion.

The rep­re­sen­ta­tives Win­ston Sobers, Chaitram Ramjits­ingh and Ramesh Dharamdeo ac­cused Ram­lal of wait­ing on the eleventh hour to can­cel. The mem­bers, who rep­re­sent three of the sev­en zones, al­so lashed out at Ram­lal and the board, ac­cus­ing them of breach of the con­sti­tu­tion. They point­ed to Ar­ti­cle 13.02 (ii) of the con­sti­tu­tion which states; "The TTCB pres­i­dent and ex­ec­u­tive shall not have dis­cre­tion in this mat­ter."

The dis­grun­tled rep­re­sen­ta­tives al­so make ref­er­ence to Ar­ti­cle "13.02" 'Spe­cial Meet­ing', which states;

(i) The gen­er­al sec­re­tary must con­vene a Spe­cial Gen­er­al Meet­ing of the Board on re­ceiv­ing a req­ui­si­tion signed by a min­i­mum of one third of the mem­ber­ship of the Board or a min­i­mum of three of the zon­al coun­cils, stat­ing clear­ly the busi­ness to be dis­cussed

(ii) The pres­i­dent or the ex­ec­u­tive shall not have a dis­cre­tion in this mat­ter

(iii) Such spe­cial gen­er­al meet­ings shall be called with­in 14 days of the re­ceipt of such req­ui­si­tion

(iv) In ur­gent cas­es the pres­i­dent may sum­mon a Spe­cial Gen­er­al Meet­ing."