GCB responds to AG’s allegation

Mar 04, 2012 Sports

In the wake of accusations of malfeasance leveled by Attorney General Anil Nandlall, The Guyana Cricket Board has said that such charges are unfounded.
We publish the full GCB statement on the situation:
The GUYANA CRICKET BOARD after the ruling by the Honourable Chief Justice Ian N. Chang to the effect that the GUYANA CRICKET BOARD lacked legal personality, resolved to incorporate a Company to hold its assets and properties.
Further, the decision to incorporate was in compliance with a direction by the WEST INDIES CRICKET BOARD which is itself an incorporated entity.
The move to incorporate is to bring the status of the governing body of cricket in Guyana into conformity the position that prevails in Barbados and Jamaica where the Cricket Boards in these countries are private Companies.
Pursuant to the Resolution a Company named D.E.B. ESSENTIAL ORGANISATION INC., was duly incorporated in August, 2011. It should also be known that the name “GUYANA CRICKET BOARD INC.,” was the preferred name for the incorporated entity, the name D.E.B. ESSENTIAL ORGANISATION INC., was decided upon by the Executives after enquiry revealed that the name “GUYANA CRICKET BOARD INC.,” was prohibited.
The judgment of the Honourable Chief Justice Ian N. Chang had failed to recognise at the time of delivery, that the ESSEQUIBO CRICKET BOARD was a duly registered Friendly Society under the Friendly Societies Act, Cap 36:04. The Friendly Societies Act by Section 19 confers on a registered Friendly Society, corporate status and hence is a legal entity known to law.
The ESSEQUIBO CRICKET BOARD together with the DEMERARA CRICKET BOARD are the Shareholders of the D.E.B ESSENTIAL ORGANISATION INC.
It is therefore untrue, spurious, scandalous and totally misleading to state that the 13 (Thirteen) Defendants in the proceedings filed by the Attorney General are the owners and controllers of the property of the private limited Company.
The documents relating to the ESSEQUIBO CRICKET BOARD and D.E.B ESSENTIAL ORGANISATION INC., are public documents and were available at the office of the Registrar of Friendly Societies and at the Deeds Registry. Further, the documents relating to the incorporation of D.E.B ESSENTIAL ORGANISATION INC., were filed at the Deeds Registry, a public office under the control of the office of the Attorney General and presumably within his knowledge.
To suggest that in any Affidavit filed by the 13 (Thirteen) Defendants whether jointly or severally, that there is no proprietary interest by the GUYANA CRICKET BOARD in the property under question, is to again mislead the public.
The continued and most recent efforts by the Government and the Attorney General of Guyana to attempt to seize the property as being bona vacantia, that is ownerless property, itself serves to justify the wisdom demonstrated by the 13 (Thirteen) Defendants.

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