The Move­ment for Change group of crick­et sup­port­ers have post­poned their mass meet­ing which was slat­ed for last night at the Preysal High School in Preysal, Cou­va. Foun­da­tion mem­ber of the Move­ment For Change Patrick Ram­per­sad said yes­ter­day that the post­pone­ment of the meet­ing was caused by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar's de­c­la­ra­tion of a lim­it­ed state of emer­gency in crime hotspots through­out Trinidad and To­ba­go on Sun­day.

The Move­ment For Change Meet­ing was called af­ter Min­is­ter of Sports Anil Roberts lashed out at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board late last week and pub­licly called on its pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath to step down af­ter top crick­eters Dwayne Bra­vo and Kieron Pol­lard an­nounced that they would not be play­ing for the na­tion­al team but for their re­spec­tive In­di­an fran­chis­es in the up­com­ing Nokia Cham­pi­ons League T20 in In­dia. Ram­per­sad said af­ter con­sul­ta­tion with his fel­low Move­ment For Change of­fi­cials it was de­cid­ed to post­pone the meet­ing to a date to be de­ter­mined prefer­ably when the reg­u­la­tions of the state of emer­gency are re­laxed.

"The an­nounce­ment by the Prime Min­is­ter and the mea­sures tak­en had the po­ten­tial of af­fect­ing the turnout ex­pect­ed for the meet­ing and we are hop­ing for the widest pos­si­ble par­tic­i­pa­tion. So we thought it wise to put it off un­til the sit­u­a­tion im­proves," said Ram­per­sad. Bas­sarath, who bore the brunt of the min­is­ter's at­tack not on­ly on the Bra­vo/Pol­lard is­sue but for the Board's re­cent ap­proval of a re­struc­tur­ing of the Na­tion­al League, was ex­pect­ed to de­liv­er a re­sponse to the se­ri­ous charges lev­elled at him and his ad­min­is­tra­tion.

QPCC post­pones func­tion

Mean­while, na­tion­al triple cham­pi­ons Queen's Park will have to put their cel­e­bra­tions on hold, as their planned prize-giv­ing which was set for this Fri­day at 7 pm at the Queen's Park Oval has been post­poned.