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GCB wins first challenge to the CAB

May 03, 2015 Sports

The national cricket authorities continue to make their opposition to the content of the Cricket Administration Bill known by winning their first challenge to this piece of legislation.
On October 20th 2014, a group of cricket entities and their representatives within the structure of the GCB along with Cricket Guy Inc. filed a court challenge against the Cricket Bill primarily against the seizure of assets, inserting of new membership and arbitrarily imposing constitutions on the GCB and its membership without these being assented to by the very membership.
Also, the cricket authorities and many members of the public continued to identify many significant flaws in the Bill, piloted through parliament.
The court order issued last Thursday by the Honourable Chief Justice Ian Chang basically stops the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Mr. Frank Anthony from calling any elections of the Guyana Cricket Board, Demerara Cricket Board, Essequibo Cricket Board or Berbice Cricket Board until the hearing and determination of the substantive matter.
The full content of the court order reads:
“UPON READING the Application by way of Summons on the part of the abovenamed Plaintiffs filed herein on the 20th day of October, 2014, and the Affidavit in Support of Summons sworn to by ANAND SANASIE, LALTA DIGAMBER, FIZUL BACCHUS, ROHAN SARJOO and JOHNNY AZEEZ the above-named Plaintiffs sworn to and filed herein on the 20th day of October, 2014, and the Affidavit in Answer of SITA RAMLAL  of the Solicitor General’s Office sworn to and filed herein of the 28th day of November, 2014, and the Affidavit in Reply of ANAND SANASIE, LALTA DIGAMBER, FIZUL BACCHUS, ROHAN SARJOO and JOHNNY AZEEZ sworn to and filed herein on the 9th day of December, 2014, and the Submissions on behalf of the parties AND UPON HEARING Attorneys-at-Law for the Plaintiffs and for the Defendants and the Court having delivered its Decision IT IS ORDERED AND DIRECTED that the holding of Elections of Office Bearers of bodies under the Guyana Cricket Administration Act No. 14 of 2014 be and is hereby suspended until the hearing and determination of the substantive Action AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this matter do take its Normal Course”.
The Cricket Administration Bill is likely to face many court challenges.

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