Jonathan Ramnanansingh
STEPHEN Ramkissoon has been appointed the contemporary treasurer of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB).
Ramkissoon, who retained his post as national Below-17 manager, become once appointed treasurer at a TTCB national executive assembly held at the National Cricket Centre in Balmain, Couva, on January 4.
Ramkissoon will attend in this plight till October, when the TTCB holds its AGM and elections.
His appointment came after passe treasurer Kiswah Chaitoo become once eliminated following a January 10, 2024 hasten of no self assurance moved against him “thanks to his role in leaking the board’s internal affairs into the final public domain, without the obligatory approval.”
Chaitoo appealed the hasten, nonetheless lost after the Supreme Appellate Committee (SAC) chanced on him in “flagrant breach” of Article 27 of the TTCB’s structure, which restricts the disclosure of all documents and conferences of the chief to “unauthorised persons.”
TTCB president Azim Bassarath confirmed Ramkissoon’s appointment on January 6, and acknowledged, “With the final 365 days in plight of job, the chief has the authority to title the treasurer, and that is interior the TTCB structure.”
Bassarath acknowledged Ramkissoon had been accomplishing the obligations of treasurer since the vote of no self assurance.
“It become once excellent applicable that we appoint him as treasurer till the October elections,” he added.
The claim that Chaitoo had breached the rule of thumb on confidentiality arose from his sharing internal TTCB records (allegations of lacking money from TTCB’s accounts) with the police sooner than the TTCB performed its internal investigations, besides sharing records from executive conferences with the media.
Chaitoo moreover raised considerations of negligence by three executive contributors who signed clean cheques nonetheless were aloof allowed to vote at the particular total assembly which led to his removal as treasurer.
Bassarath described the events as a “discovering out ride.”
“No longer excellent a discovering out ride for the TTCB, nonetheless it’ll be a discovering out ride for all national governing our bodies and folks focused on administering sport. We hold now carried out some work, we’ve hired contemporary of us in the accounts division and somewhat quite so much of contemporary issues hold been applied to be definite something like that doesn’t occur again.”
Bassarath moreover confirmed that he may perhaps well be throwing his hat in the ring for TTCB presidency “for one final time period” when the October elections attain around.
